Sentence examples for more shattering to from inspiring English sources

They opined the news would be more shattering to their boy than the tackle.

He sees that it is more shattering to depict St Jerome beating his own chest with a rock than poring over his books in the library (as usual) accompanied by that dozing lion.

Such commonplace experiences made it all the more shattering for the students to learn she died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen when she was 15.

But the second one -- refusing to lift the debt ceiling -- is more akin to a "federal government default" on our debt, and could have worldwide consequences more shattering than any mere "government shutdown" ever could.

It remains to be determined whether this activity resulted from extrinsic forces, such as one or more shattering collisions in the moon's early history, or intrinsic ones, such as eruptions from its interior caused by past tidal heating (as now occurs on Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io).

It had a much more shattering effect on me than Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This was a still more remarkable reversal, and consequently even more shattering for Pakistan, than Watkins' single day of glory.

The wild and unpredictable emotional swings render the inevitable conclusion all the more shattering, as the film lays bare the price of friendship and the gall of betrayal.

Mr. Quaid's handsome face is twisted with suffering and self-loathing, and his performance is all the more shattering because he thwarts our compassion.

Pierce's family memoir recounts his personal experience of the illness that first killed his father by silencing his spirit, and it mourns the kind of loss that, for a victim's family, is perhaps more shattering than actual death.

The news is even more shattering for ordinary Pakistanis, who had hoped that victory on the playing field might give some reprieve and a cause of celebration to a country devastated by unrelenting militancy, continued political unrest and its worst floods in living memory.