Sentence examples for on shattering from inspiring English sources

She was flying through the early miles, ignoring all cautionary tales of the toll the course can take, seemingly intent on shattering the course record.

The London Underground knows better than most the impossibility of deterring those who come armed with explosive and nails, intent on shattering society's surface calm.

· Sunday, 9pm, ITV1 Film The Pianist Roman Polanski's intense, Oscar-winning biopic, following the wartime experiences of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, with Adrien Brody on shattering form.

Further, he contests the notion that modern architects were latter-day Vandals, intent on shattering the cultural continuity of regional and urban life.

In personal terms, and without sanctimony, she explores the history of the Sabbath, its philosophical foundations, its consolations, its purposes, and, in doing so, writes a swift, penetrating book intent on shattering the habits of mindless workaholism and the inability to recognize the blessings of rest, reflection, spirit, and family.

But whereas stripping gave the dispossessed men of "Monty" their sense of self worth, in "The Glee Club" vocal harmony is the main male refuge from loneliness and loss".The Glee Club" is sweet-tempered and sometimes rueful and hasn't come hellbent on shattering box-office records.

As they stepped down from the train, they trod on shattered glass and heard the news.

He worked on shattered morale, on developing an all-volunteer army, on ways to reduce casualties from friendly fire.

Across the square, in the White Cube gallery, hang another three, more grandiose works; upstairs, a lead submarine flounders on shattered concrete.

It's the specialty of Kurek Ashley, an American who tutored Cook in various acts of derring-do, like walking on shattered glass and hot coals.

Nevertheless, at McRae's order or not, Lilly had the wounded make their way — limping, panting, on shattered limbs or dragged into the woods — where he and his troops shot all of them through the back of the head.