Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irritating because I shall say some unpleasant things. Perhaps I shall shatter some false axioms on which we were reclining...
...glass that will not shatter would have prevented this...
...Lady from the Sea" is an education. It is a superb example of the ability of a playwright to shatter his play into two score small scenes, almost all dialogues, without breaking the emotional thread. From the first rise of the curtain, which reveals color disharmony rampant, to the last discordant blast of the steamer's whistle which closes the play, there is a jangling, an oppressive sultriness which distinguishes the play...
...shift toward the miners, Mr. Churchill invited the representatives of the Mine Owners Association to confer with him at the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street. Though the owners continued obstinate in their demands that the coal strike be terminated by regional agreements which would shatter the power of the great unions, Mr. Churchill remained firm in the Cabinet's new position and submitted a plan of compromise for consideration by the owners in detail...
There were those who said that they were too ingratiating. There was perhaps a feeling that the players were too flagrantly depending on their unquestionably charming precocity. It is dangerous to shatter too indiscriminately the precept that children, no matter how engaging, should be seen and not heard. The Garrick Gaieties this summer is just a bit sure of itself...