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It might not sound like a bombshell of a statement, but during a particularly revealing conversation with Oprah on OWN's "SuperSoul Sunday," Rhimes explained how it's actually a pivotal moment for a woman of a certain age to declare publicly, out loud, "I don't want to get married".

NORTH KOREA'S announcement on December 1st that it will attempt for the second time this year to put a rocket into space is likely to have landed like a bombshell on the capitals of South Korea, America, Japan and even China.

It contains many a bombshell of that magnitude.

We have only had polling in 16 states since the Billy Bush tape hit the campaign like a bombshell, and many of those were conducted before women began personally accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault and harassment.

Yet the article The New York Times published a few weeks ago — saying that G.E. was likely to pay no federal income tax at all in 2010 — has landed like a bombshell, arousing the kind of populist outrage that hasn't been seen since those derivatives traders at A.I.G. got their last big bonuses.

Their film Rosetta hit Cannes like an unaccustomed bombshell of real cinema.

Henein treated each new submission like a bombshell, sometimes ending a day of testimony on a cliffhanger.

"It kind of dropped like a bombshell," said Christopher Meloni, the actor who plays Detective Elliot Stabler on the TV show "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and a Smile Train donor.

"Innocent as Charged," an intimate work performed partly in a narrow room and partly in a snack bar -- locations that will be duplicated as best as possible when it is presented with simultaneous translation from July 19 to July 23 in the Pope Auditorium of Fordham University Theater -- was like a bombshell in reverse.

On 21 June, Blackader was ordered to leave the brigade and go to France; he described the news of the unexpected posting as "like a bombshell".

With a new introduction by Michael Williams, a new afterword by David Bromwich, and the previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert" When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell.