Sentence examples for smashed plates from inspiring English sources

Where once he glued smashed plates to the surface, now Schnabel coats his pictures in clear resin a centimetre deep, a chemical glacier in which nubs of paint are trapped like the proverbial fly in amber and everything glistens with unnatural violence.

I smashed plates with a hammer.

She explained: "I smashed plates on the floor, [and] he swept them up.

We recalled how we smashed plates in the Athens' Plaka; danced on the bar in Mykonos; and were still up from the night before when the sun rose over Antiparos.

They kicked down my front door and locked us in a room, while they tore all the pictures down from the wall, ripped apart our furniture, smashed plates and stripped our closets.

I've seen the movie The Miracle Worker more times than I can count, and still feel the emotional wallop of the dining room scene: you remember the one -- a young Helen fights her new teacher Anne Sullivan tooth and nail in the Keller family dining room in Alabama, and amidst broken crockery and smashed plates Helen finally, finally succumbs to Anne's demands that she eat from a plate.

Smashing Plates, Maria Elia Kyle Bookss) This crunchy Asian-inspired salad is as vibrant to taste as it is to look at, and great for lunchboxes.

Insolent and self-willed, she demands to be paid properly and refuses to join the domestic entourage in the house, smashing plates on the floor in a rage.

Singers wield megaphones; a percussionist periodically smashes plates; the role of Lady Bracknell is given to a stentorian bass (here Alan Ewing).

Recreating the physical inventiveness of the early Lewis, he runs around the club with manic energy, yelling and smashing plates, drinking water from a vase, then leaping into Martin's arms like a child.

He makes the most of Italian criminal records, intensively trawled by contemporary scholars to clear up confusion (especially concerning the final four years), and to provide graphic glimpses of the young Caravaggio squabbling, fighting, trading threats and insults, smashing plates in restaurants and slashing opponents with knife or sword.