Sentence examples for quite shattered from inspiring English sources

But it was not quite shattered by the fall.

Terry-Thomas had more time for the actress with whom he shared his short scene, Jayne Mansfield, commenting that "I found her rather intelligent to talk to and felt quite shattered when I read about the gruesome car accident that killed her".

She couldn't quite shatter the glass ceiling in 2008, but she vowed that the "18 million cracks" she had etched in it would help ensure it would yield in the end.

After the lecture, there is to be a public reception: it is a fixed part of a hundred-year-long tradition at the Xville Forum, and any failure by you to attend it would quite shatter the evening and demoralize the dozens of people who had a hand in making it a success.

For Morante, the real history is that of the ordinary people whose lives are quite often shattered by these forces.

Her death, he continued, "quite literally shattered the euphoria of the Coronation" (which had taken place on 2 June 1953).

This of course rattled Shmuley's cage, and quite possibly shattered it as well, prompting him to write a response on Facebook and elsewhere.

A statement on a state-run news Web site accused Al Qaeda of carrying out the attack and said that the explosion was quite large and "shattered into pieces" the body of the attacker.