Sentence examples for shattering the image from inspiring English sources

As in "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son," Mr. Jacobs's seminal found-footage opus from 1969, "Razzle Dazzle" blows apart its source material — zooming in, out and all around; magnifying the tiniest shapes and shadows; shattering the image flow with a wild array of cuts, wipes, fades and superimpositions — and then reassembles the fragments in fresh patterns.

It should be noted, though, that in addition to the 42 immigrants, The Forbes 400 includes 57 people who are the children of immigrants, or 14% of the list (compared with 6% of U.S. citizens over 18), pretty much shattering the image of America's billionaire class as a bunch of blue bloods.

Such internal contestation reveals that when Japanese Buddhists in the Americas exercised their agency, their actions shattered the image of a universally harmonious Buddhist migrant community.

Overnight, the Costa Concordia disaster shattered the image of the most durably successful travel sector.

The October 1973 War shattered the image of Israeli citizen-soldier utopia.

It was all enough to shatter the image of starred French restaurants.

In his rebuttal, Eikonoklastes (1649; "Image-Breaker"), Milton shatters the image of the king projected in Eikon Basilike.

And an open spat between the White House and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over who is running occupation policy shattered the image of a unified administration.

That is, until a bad knee (one of several strained plot devices) exposes a weakness that threatens to shatter the image.

Murders, rapes, even the accusations of sodomy of the Mepham case, shatter the image of the quiet rural county that looks like the set of a movie about middle America.

The price of food in Venezuela increased by more than 17percentt in July alone, according to the main nongovernmental group that tracks inflation, aggravating a food crisis that had already shattered the image of Venezuela, an oil-rich nation that, until recent years, was the economic envy of many countries in the region.