Violence in her childhood shattered her spirit, her sweet, generous spirit.
A showier singer might have seized this opportunity to strut her shatter-the-stained-glass prowess; Sade delivers the song in a ghostly near whisper.
He lived with her in a FEMA trailer and helped her rebuild her shattered life.
The reason was partly her shattered body, but mostly it was her strength of mind.
In North Carolina, a massage therapist is recovering from surgery to mend her shattered femur.
Frida Kahlo did it in her self-portraits, depicting her shattered body in colorful dresses, her head wreathed in flowers.
And, not to hammer it, but her name, Flinders, means shatters, and there was some sense for me of her shattering the truth.
"And one of the dead was a young nurse from the staff, pulled by rescuers from her shattered apartment.
Deep thanks are owed Evelyn Herlitzius for bringing passion to the stage with her shattering account of Barak's Wife.
After a medical evacuation to Britain, where war surgeons repaired her shattered skull, Ms. Yousafzai has made a startling recovery.
