Sentence examples for shatter us from inspiring English sources

True, a few of us still have ambitions, but if we fail at these, it doesn't shatter us the way it used to; having finally established ourselves as persons, our personhood is no longer vulnerable to ordinary outer frustrations.

Authors have the uncanny (and often creepy) ability to shatter us to our wobbly cores, to pierce through all of the filters and shields and push the button inside of us we were desperately trying to hide from others.

It shattered us but we have to pull ourselves together".

With painful precision he tells a midlife coming-of-age story: the world shatters us.

Madonna's performance last year shattered US TV viewing records when more than three million extra people tuned in to watch her perform on top of the 108 million already watching the game.

The 23-year-old from Northern Ireland shattered US Open records last June at rain-softened Congressional, finishing at 268 to break the 72-hole record by four shots, and his 16-under total was four better than Woods' mark at Pebble Beach in 2000.

They were huge, coming from out of nowhere, shattering us.

"It shattered us as a family," Vereen said.

As industries contract and shatter around us, we sit in our thrumming little tour buses and smile bitterly.

"We used to sleep on the floor ― not in bed ― so that when an explosion happened, the glass wouldn't shatter on us," explained the girl, who eventually fled the capital city of Sana'a with her family to escape the dangers of living in a war zone.

Hearing American rap, like NWA and Run-DMC, he says, "was earth- shattering for us".