"shattering impact" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the consequences of a situation, such as in the sentence "The news of his death had a shattering impact on his family."
It is made up entirely of images of midair collisions lifted from from news films, amateur videos and Hollywood movies, spliced together into a prolonged experience of shattering impact.
The shattering impact of these events galvanized in the United States and Russia a determination to counter the terrorist menace.
Prcic "makes us feel the shattering impact of traumatic events, but he goes beyond mere mimesis by tethering it all to this achingly specific character.
William I was at his best in confronting the problem of reviving the economic life of the country after the shattering impact of the long French occupation.
In Britain, the shift was not surprising given the shattering impact of popular opposition to Blair's War on Terror at home.
The Agnus Dei, with its dry, death-rattle drum rolls (played using wooden-headed sticks) and barely controlled outbursts of "Miserere", made a shattering impact.
Yet the work has a shattering tragic impact and bears out the precept stated by another German tragic dramatist of the 19th century, Friedrich Hebbel: "One need only be a man, after all, to have a destiny".
Not only that, but the plastic cutlery failed to fulfil any of its intended purposes, shattering on impact like a cheap ruler, and further adding to the sense that you were either on an EasyJet flight or in some kind of institution where metal forks were something you earned through good behaviour. .
Not only that, but the plastic cutlery failed to fulfill any of its intended purposes, shattering on impact like a cheap ruler and further adding to the sense that you were in some kind of institution where metal forks were something you earned through good behavior.
Asking For It tells the story of Emma, an 18-year-old girl who is raped by boys she knows – and reveals the life-shattering impact of sexual abuse, rape and how victims are treated.
The problem is that bullets usually shatter on impact.
