Sentence examples for shattering lesson from inspiring English sources

"The British people have given not only to Europeans but to people around the entire world a shattering lesson in democracy," Le Pen, surprised but triumphant, told reporters the next morning.

Some commentators have misread the film as a costume drama, while others recoil from its shocking implications for the age of Obama – a time in which the old assumptions of racial solidarity are being shattered but the lessons of the resulting disappointment have proved hard to learn.

The other important lesson last week lay in the shattering of conventional wisdom.

By Thomas de Monchaux January 5, 2017 For more than half a century, three buildings at the site of the recent attack in Berlin have provided a lesson in how to live with the continual memory and possibility of shattering violence.

Shattering glass.

Then glass started shattering".

"It was shattering.

A shattering novel.

And also, for all those years, those buildings have provided a lesson, now newly acute, in how, through the places we make in cities, to live with the continual memory and possibility of shattering violence.

Self-defence lessons  are taught using taekwondo-based techniques, as well as breaking competitions where athletes demonstrate their power, speed and technique by shattering wooden boards or bricks.

That barrier is shattering.