Storerooms of unopened supplies — sinks, toilets, test tubes, whatever — were torn to bits.
Much more so, surprisingly, than the dramatic gesture of a Klan membership card being torn to bits and thrown away.
Liam Conway, a teacher from Nottinghamshire, said the inspection regime was now so tough teachers were "literally being torn to bits".
I should probably just be grateful that they chose not to show the actual moment she and her baby were torn to bits.
"While not particularly horrific -- as the camera never focused for too long on any particular person being torn to bits by the undead -- it was effectively thrilling," CinemaBlend.com wrote on March 29.
Clevidence's invented emotional lives convey truths that lurk below the surface of historical events, truths that, like those butterflies, bring pleasure even as they remind us how easily they can be torn to bits.
They grow to love her, refusing to give her up to be torn to bits as a fighting dog; when they learn she is a bomb-sniffing dog it is something that saves their lives.
"We owe it to all of our teachers who are literally being torn to bits by education secretary Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of England's schools, and their band of crocodiles and lions," he said.
The same is true of Helen, who visits Howards End, the Wilcoxes' enviable house, deep in the countryside, and finds her modern ideas of progress and equality being torn to bits by Henry, over lunch.
