Especially for New York City, some computer model forecasts were extremely dire, predicting upwards of 30 inches of snow – shattering all-time snowfall records.
"Of course, all these illusions were shattered over time".
Also, the victory made him the man to accomplish the Triple Crown in the fastest amount of time, shattering Kevin Nash's old record.
But the distinctive "60 Minutes" format was more closely influenced by two foreign shows, the British "That Was the Week That Was" and the Canadian "This Hour Has Seven Days," that used satire and song along with reporting to respond to the shattering events of the time.
My sense of belonging shattered each time.
The experience of seeing others blown apart, including one's friends, was shattering the first time around.
Then there's the maddening loftiness to his gnomic utterances, such as "All names, one name", "the logic of North is shattered", and "Time is a lie".
"The Noise of Time" shatters the normal protocols of concertgoing and compels the audience to experience this discomforting music without intellectual defenses for protection.
Largely on the back of that song, 1991's Out of Time shattered expectations of two or so million sales to sell more than 18m copies, kickstarting the group's 1990s ascension to the status of one of the biggest bands in the world".It marked the transition from pretty big to really big," Mills remembers.
And then at 1.30pm local time came shattering reports of another hostage situation, this time at the kosher market, 15 miles away from the siege in Dammartin.
The 19th and 20th centuries were shattering times for China, bringing wars, civil violence and the fall of an empire.
