ISIS was able to tighten its grip because Libya is a shattered, hollowed-out country, lacking the basic sinews of governance that define a functioning state.
Curtains fluttered out shattered windows.
Other photos and a short video on the Phoenix Television Web site showed government buildings with windows blown out, shattered glass on sidewalks and damaged cars.
Shattered Dreams is out now on New York label Purple Tape Pedigree.
That fairy tale shattered upon finding out he had been carrying on a tawdry affair with our babysitter for the past seven years.
It shattered, spilling out a beautiful mess of spiced cotton candy, caramel-coated mini-waffles, candied ginger and who knows what else.
Maisie's sensitive interviews with the families of the murdered women, as well as her efforts on behalf of her assistant, Billy Beale, a veteran whose leg was shattered, bear out Winspear's poignant thesis that many war survivors cannot bear to be reminded of their own wounds.
I look so forward to getting out there, after Shattered is out, in entirety, and developing these projects that are so much more fun.
As we left the airport, we passed front-line neighborhoods where gruesome killings had recently occurred, and where, amid shattered and burnt-out shops and houses, wild-eyed young men, and women, too — antibalakas — swaggered around like conquerors.
Some lives in these stories are snuffed out or shattered, others simply derailed.
