Sentence examples for to shattering effect from inspiring English sources

The players seemed to be ripping the sound from their instruments to shattering effect.

At the end they pair up, to shattering effect: as he knelt by the grave of his mother and father he could barely tell one from the other.

The violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama played this tiny, creepy solo to shattering effect at Alice Tully Hall on Monday during her guest appearance with the Emerson String Quartet.

Half reportage, half musical commentary, Bombs of Beirut made use of the recorded voices of Kouyoumdjian's family and friends as they recalled incidents during the Lebanese civil war; at its climax, the sounds of actual bombing exploded through the speakers into the hall – to shattering effect.

During October the final effort to halt inflation collapsed, with shattering effect to morale in Nationalist-held cities.

It is difficult for us today to comprehend the shattering effect this schism in the church must have had on the people who lived through it, whose solid world appeared to be breaking apart.

A professional boyfriend moulded in his partner's image then chucked to the floor with shattering effect.

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Benn's diaries for 1940 to 1962, published as Years of Hope (1994), record his life in Africa, his training as a pilot, the shattering effect of the death of his brother Michael while he was there, his journey on to Egypt, where his war ended after he had got his wings.

The novel culminates with the shattering effect of Asher's masterpiece, a painting titled Brooklyn Crucifixion.

For the 142 families of Sweets Way in North London, the shattering effect finance and evictions have on people's lives has been grimly demonstrated.