Instead of shattering, the phone merely flattened out, then returned to its normal crescent shape.
Nelsons produces full-body impact: instead of shattering about your ears, the sound engulfs you.
But instead of shattering or even seriously challenging those stereotypes, this breezy montage of interviews with pimps of varying ages in several American cities only reinforces them.
Nassim Taleb, in his exasperating but compelling book Antifragile, praises "things that gain from disorder" – people, policies and institutions designed to thrive on volatility, instead of shattering in the encounter with it.
But instead of shattering, it bounced.
Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.
They have a max speed of 25 MPH, about two feet of foam in the front to pad against collisions, and a plastic windshield instead of shatter-able glass.
Instead of fireballs, shattered glass and flipping cars, we have an Aristotelian purity, one confined setting, no flashbacks, virtually no dialogue, just a man, and a boat, at sea, scrambling to stay alive.
They use a metal board spun-coated with e-ink instead of a glass sheet for the screen, which will definitely prevent the heartbreak of shattered ereaders for the next generation of readers.
(Shards of shattered glass remain).
