Sentence examples for shatter the image from inspiring English sources

It was all enough to shatter the image of starred French restaurants.

That is, until a bad knee (one of several strained plot devices) exposes a weakness that threatens to shatter the image.

Murders, rapes, even the accusations of sodomy of the Mepham case, shatter the image of the quiet rural county that looks like the set of a movie about middle America.

I'm delighted that after a long period wandering in the wilderness at the beginning of this century, when she appeared in a series of American films that didn't work, Penélope managed to shatter the image of empty beauty in which Hollywood pigeonholed her.

It didn't take long to shatter the image of him as a happily married family man who enjoyed camping, gardening, and driving around in his Porsche.

"The real goal here is to avoid using words that make you sound like you're reading, instead of talking -- that shatter the image you're speaking knowledgeably to one person.

Overnight, the Costa Concordia disaster shattered the image of the most durably successful travel sector.

In his rebuttal, Eikonoklastes (1649; "Image-Breaker"), Milton shatters the image of the king projected in Eikon Basilike.

The new information shows how far Kennedy went to conceal his ailments and shatters the image he projected as the most vigorous of men.

And an open spat between the White House and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over who is running occupation policy shattered the image of a unified administration.

In the end, the debate did not change the essential truth of Ms. Palin's candidacy: Mr. McCain made a wildly irresponsible choice that shattered the image he created for himself as the honest, seasoned, experienced man of principle and judgment.