"My life has been completely shattered by the permanent damage to my spine, which I believe could have been prevented if I had received the care I urgently needed".
When our confidence in our financial institutions and elected leaders has been completely shattered, it's crucial for politicians to maintain good communication in order to allay our growing fears and concerns.
Any traditional mythos of "the woman" has been completely shattered into a body teeming with imagery that mutates from line to line, melding everyday roles such as mother and teacher into phantasmagoric collages of rats wearing black bras, a house with hands buried in chocolate cake, aspirin hatching into more aspirin.
Those fears, however, have been completely shattered by Ronaldo's ongoing brilliance under new boss Carlo Ancelotti, who has instigated an open, possession-based game which is far less obviously suited to his team's star player but has done nothing to diminish his productivity.
Toward the end of our talk we asked Mariah how she might account for having so completely shattered all of the doctors' predictions of her expected longevity.
Without them, too, we give up on what's supposed to be the deep promise of religious practice: that at any time, in any place, it's possible to encounter the divine, the revolutionary and the impossible — and have your life completely shattered and remade.
It wasn't so long before I had completely forgotten about my shattered heart.
Whatever trust they had in you is going to be completely shattered and lying about what you've done is only going to make matters worse.
One friend, who married at 38, has had three children in rapid succession and she's completely shattered.
Historian David Chandler wrote of the Prussian forces: "Never has the morale of any army been more completely shattered".
