Sentence examples for most shattering of from inspiring English sources

If never the deepest or the most shattering of operas, I Puritani revels in the possibilities of the human voice.

With the utmost delicacy and care, Uhlman distils all the rage and tragedy of the second world war into one brief childhood friendship, and the final line is the most shattering of any novel I know.

Bernstein said of Auden's poem that he found it "one of the most shattering examples of pure virtuosity in the history of English poetry".

Rajam's death from typhoid in 1939 was the most shattering blow of Narayan's life.

Gus van Sant's film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and REM's album Monster, both carried the dedication "For River", while Michael Stipe declared Phoenix's death to be "the most shattering experience of my life".

The most shattering aspect of the video interview in which Mark Mullins describes his and his partner Helen's struggle to survive acute poverty is the knowledge that a few months after it was recorded, both were dead, having killed themselves in an "apparent suicide pact".

Franks provided him with what he described as "the deepest, most shattering experience of falling in love".

That was the most shattering national event of my adulthood.

Though Ligeti wrote other laments, this one is the "most shattering, most extreme of all," he said.

So we knew that Colman could do funny, but few would have then imagined, least of all Colman herself, that by 2013 she would be written up as an actor of Streepian versatility, nor that she was capable of incarnating so convincingly a string of downtrodden women in some of the most shattering roles in recent British TV and film drama.

One of the most shattering stories - which originally appeared in this newspaper - tells of a father who had to kill his own son after the young man was accused of being an informer.