Word: shatterly
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...also a gesture of defiance. To those who seek our destruction, and to those who have sought it in generations past, we declare that acts of terror cannot shatter our hopes for a better future. The purpose of the bombings was to plunge us into confusion and hopeless despair. We must mourn and recognize the tragedy in all of its enormity, but we must also carry...
...second pane--the one that deters women from taking up elected leadership positions on the council--and to do that will require that we all work on ourselves. The council cannot fix its glass ceiling problem all by itself; as a reflection of society, we must all work to shatter the glass ceiling by breaking within ourselves the traditional notions of gender. Until then, no matter how hard the council itself tries, it will consistently be off-track...
...personal accomplishments, Harvard has already seen senior swingman Mike Gilmore break the 1,000 point plateau and shatter the school's three-point record...
...sisters and their mistress seem to change totally from one minute to the next. By thrusting the audience into this complex psychological game without telling us the rules, Genet is able to communicate the sheer strangeness of the sisters' inner lives; some act of violence seems necessary to shatter the feverish atmosphere...
Deservedly so. His Chili Palmer is a Miami loan shark, the kind of good fellow who can shatter his competitor's nose and with a casually aimed shot nip a sliver off his scalp, in the process neither raising his voice nor losing his shy little smile. He's a much neater operative than Pulp's Vinnie. And his drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth...