Jan Pappelbaum's hotel-room set is blown to smithereens, plaster cascades from the ceiling, everything is a sea of rubble.
Smashed to smithereens for the same reason.
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She evokes a line from the Smithereens song "Behind the Wall of Sleep": "She stood just like Bill Wyman, now I am her biggest fan".
Others might be blown to smithereens by rockets fired from earth.
After Woods played the worst tournament of his career last weekend, I began to wonder: has any great athlete, at the top of any sport, ever had his or her game blown to smithereens so fast -- not just from age, not just from injury, but pretty obviously from some deeper miasma of psyche and soma.
And they had this guy called Jonny Wilkinson who swept up all the smithereens and built something substantial from them with his left boot.
In his long new book, the Cambridge historian Adam Tooze presents the Third Reich as an engine doomed to smash itself to smithereens not, as for Speer, from bureaucratic turf wars and Hitler's chaotic office habits, but from its own birth defects.
When he least expected it, just as the President who had appointed him to his SEC post was gearing up to smash the Democratic party to smithereens, Pitt received a disturbing call from New York's ranking Democratic senator, Charles E. Schumer.
A decidedly low ebb came when the Ottomans – employing a rather cavalier attitude to heritage management – used the Parthenon as an ammunition store in the 17th century, and it was blown to smithereens when it came under attack from their Venetian foes.
