As Dr. Bonnie Eiker Weil writes in her book, "Make Up, Don't Break Up," only 7percentt of people who separate end up getting back together; the pain of rejection shatters so much trust.
And the screen is shattered so I cut myself.
Becoming a father was an experience that didn't shatter my expectations so much as make me realize I had no expectations to shatter.
The earthquake killed Mr. Constant and shattered his family, along with so much else in Haiti.
For all his unorthodox style, he is conservative by nature and has yet to show that he is prepared to shatter the wa that means so much to Japanese.
It took the man who did so much to shatter the music biz dominance of the Great American Songbook just eight words to encapsulate a half-century's worth of love, laughs, tunes, and, yes, yelling: "Carl never forgave me for rock 'n' roll".
Not a mosaic so much as a shattered image, with white tracers boiling in the spaces in between, or so Ida imagined, so that all the bird really saw was a kind of luminescent netting.
Star Wars, of course, shattered all box office records, making so much money that not even fancy Hollywood accounting could minimize Lucas' 40% of the net profits.
But the gnarly amount of damage it took all came from a vicious thunderstorm, pummeling the flying metal tube with so much hail it shattered the front windshield and ripped half of the nose clean off.
