Fortunately, those moments were few, and "Shattered" commanded attention with its overall power.
But the raid at his music company offices at 8200 Wilshire Boulevard drew the most attention today: shattered glass, crime-scene tape and television trucks are not the usual stuff of Beverly Hills luncheon life.
To begin with, rehearsals took place during the week of the bombing when focus and attention were shattered but eventually coalesced, even more powerfully, around the music.
But an outcry over a string of recent rapes, including this one, in the northern state of Haryana, has shattered that silence, focusing national attention on India's rising number of sexual assaults while also exposing the conservative, male-dominated power structure in Haryana, where rape victims are often treated with callous disregard.
Wasn't feminism supposed to make promotions and ceiling-shattering the attention getters, not a taut brow?
Yet official attention to help revive the shattered rental home and apartment market has been scant.
Unfortunately, the myth of their incredible attention to detail regarding access was quickly shattered.
The encapuchados soon turned their attention to defacing public property, leaving uprooted traffic lights, shattered shop windows, and burning bus stops in their wake.
At Trafalgar, almost a summing-up of what went before, Nelson shattered the combined fleet by taking it head-on.Inspiration, informality and attention to detail were three of Nelson's chief priorities.
Our task on earth, according to this myth, was to repair the shattered vessels, the shattered world, which meant first of all that we had to pay careful attention to it".
