The 19th and 20th centuries were shattering times for China, bringing wars, civil violence and the fall of an empire.
The zig-zag deflections and sharp edges of the Deconstructivists, notably in Peter Eisenman's 2004 design for the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and in Daniel Libeskind's 2003 plan for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, in Lower Manhattan, suited shattering times.
If this process has not been followed, the glass bead can break or shatter any time, even if it appears sturdy.
"Of course, all these illusions were shattered over time".
Then there's the maddening loftiness to his gnomic utterances, such as "All names, one name", "the logic of North is shattered", and "Time is a lie".
But the quiet is intermittently shattered every time a train barrels by just a stone's throw away, sounding its horn.
The door handle of the Camry must have been shattered some time between five a.m., when I returned home, and daybreak.
Quentin D. Atkinson, a biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has shattered this time barrier, if his claim is correct, by looking not at words but at phonemes — the consonants, vowels and tones that are the simplest elements of language.
Carter, who was beaten 18-8 in 2008, said: "I feel totally different, I was mentally shattered last time.
