Sentence examples for less shattering from inspiring English sources

Although evidence is not definitive, lighter sedation seems tied to better cognitive and physical rehabilitative recovery, as well as fewer and less shattering hallucinations.

Parker has been no match for Curry and Thompson in the superlatives category, which tends to happens when you combine for 483 3-pointers in a season (on 42 percent shooting, no less), shattering Dennis Scott and Nick Anderson's mark of 435, set in 1996.

Cultivated Asian rice, in contrast, shows a wide range of seed threshability levels, from nearly shattering to difficult to thresh, but is generally less shattering than wild and weedy species [ 17, 18].

Despite its image as a bastion of progressivism, architecture is a profession in which the glass ceiling has yet to be scratched, must less shattered.

And the people were no less shattered.

They wanted to make Rita stronger and less shattered than she was in the first season.

"Gentleman's Agreement" more or less shattered an immoral facade of anti-Semitism that had held American culture in a thrall of moral captivity.

Syria and Iraq are more or less shattered states; it is unlikely that they will be put back together in their previous shapes.

He said proposals to be outlined today by his party would represent "nothing less than shattering the class-based education system in this country".

Of the Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle -- who, four months after Sept. 11, has the nerve to challenge the president's plan for more tax cuts -- Frum snaps that Daschle's "larger aim" is nothing less than "shattering the mood of national unity and returning the country to politics-as-usual -- or rather, politics-uglier-than-ever".

Frenzel, like me, doesn't like compromising his phone's aesthetic with some ugly protective shell, but he likes even less the shattered countenance that inevitably results from this aesthetic decision.