The spell is broken, they chuckle lightly together, and then resume the discussion absent of their previous rancor and with considerably more kindness toward each other.
Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter and current chief of Medium, didn't address Facebook by name but said that the way social and traditional media work together is "broken".
restoration, defined as "putting together what is broken," reconstruction, defined as "replacing and rebuilding what is torn down".
Regeneration can be attained by two means: restoration, defined as "putting together what is broken," reconstruction, defined as "replacing and rebuilding what is torn down".
The story is broken into discrete chunks and strung together according to your choices.
A symbolic action for people in Afghanistan is breaking bread together, so I carried a loaf of bread and a letter to the commander asking how many people were killed by Whiteman Air Force Base on that day.
And I pray that, when the adolescent cynicism and anger subside, she will decide that it is worth her attention, energy, and more than a few blisters to try to put what has been broken back together again.
The next step is breaking up or staying together.
Stela 63 was deliberately broken, together with its hieroglyphic step, during the ritual demolishing of the Papagayo phase of Temple 26.
Early in 1895 Dreyfus stood at attention in the courtyard of the École Militaire while an officer publicly broke his sword in two (Harris mentions that it had been broken and soldered together in advance to preclude any embarrassing difficulty).
