Sentence examples for shatter under pressure from inspiring English sources

Comic characters, Updike writes in an essay about humor, are "rubbery," with the ability to bounce back, whereas tragic ones tend to be brittle and stony and fated to "irrevocably shatter" under pressure.

That depends on the temperature of the fat, and here it was perfect: the outside crisp so that it shattered under the pressure of fork, the pearly fish inside falling away to flakes.

Rodriguez reached base five times in Game 6, and his sublime postseason has shattered the notion that he wilts under pressure.

For a moment I entertained a vision of my rod shattering under this immense pressure, shards of splintered graphite piercing my carotid artery.

Now Israel's Arab citizens are looking to the commission, set up under pressure from their leaders, to restore some of their shattered hopes for equality.

Facts bend under pressure.

"Grace under pressure".

Under pressure, it did.

Gundogan cool under pressure.

To be under pressure?

He was under pressure.