Sentence examples for shattering point from inspiring English sources

To make sure that the noise stayed near the shattering point, a bagpipe ensemble roamed the hall, blasting fanfares at unexpected moments.

He makes the sensible but hardly shattering point that conspiracy theories tend to come from disaffected folk.

The shattering point is the ability of the Web to lift words and ideas into an empyrean free of real human consequences.

In Vince Gilligan's meth-y anxiety masterclass Breaking Bad, more cumulatively horrible things have happened than in almost any other show in US TV history – even hardcore fans were traumatised by the shattering pivot points of this week's episode Ozymandias.

"You can tell they're from bullets by the concentration of shattering at the point," he said.

Decades from now, social historians may be able to pinpoint the exact moment, during the lead-up to the 2008 election, that the sheer weight of historical potential tipped the scale of restraint to the breaking point, shattering the fragile veneer of the post-Civil Rights-era façade of civility.

The unprecedented massing of Leonardo's paintings reveals strong similarities from one to the next – shattered rocks, pointing fingers, those angelic eyelids like slits in a jingle bell – as well as bewildering disparities.

But footage of one of the blast sites - a ripped-off cover of a bus shelter and a car with its glass shattered - points to a medium-level and possibly crude explosion, adds our correspondent.

By the end of December he had won 3,584 points, shattering the record by 314.

Considering that it's a trivial enough upgrade that it only bumps the overall numbering up an earth-shattering zero-point-zero-point-zero-point-one, we're not all that jealous – but we'll admit that we might be a little bit jealous.

If Mr. Paisley's point is shattering boundaries, he's behind the times.