shattering

• “In this particular instance, the sound of glass shattering is well over 120 decibels …”

  Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 23, 2010

• “Really earth shattering is this   SEO gets its own song on YouTube.”

  Google Hits a High Note with New Music Onebox

• “While my comments today should not be construed as being earth shattering from a world perspective, the organization I represent, the Canadian Football League, has and continues to play a role in the shaping of our country.”

  The Future of the Canadian Football League

• “It was granted to today's Nobel Prize winner, Professor Fermi, to succeed in shattering even the heavier and the heaviest elements in the Periodic System.”

  Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 - Presentation Speech

• “The only way we’re going to rebuild after the present and coming political shattering is through honest reckoning, and taking responsibility for what we’ve done.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Listen to the Man

• “You honor the memory of three generations of Jordanians who gave their lives in defense of your country -- what Your Majesty has called the shattering toll in blood and tears, the waste of youth and the grief of our forefathers.”

  Remarks By President To Jordanian Parliament

• “And then she found that the shattering was the goal.”

  Temptation's Price

• “And when enough Riflemen had fallen the cavalry charge would split the weakened square with the ease of a sword shattering a rotten apple.”

  Sharpe's Rifles

• “Watching this "shattering" production, he confesses, "my face became streaked with tears.”

  The Guardian: What to say about ... All My Sons

• “Insane southpaw Bill "Spaceman" Lee once described Boston Red Sox baseball (pre-2004, of course) as high tragic opera, the kind of shattering long-running mental and emotional experience that leaves one with arms flung heavenward screaming, "Why, God, why?”

  Pass the Ball for Victory?

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