shattering

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

Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 23, 2010 2010

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

Google Hits a High Note with New Music Onebox 2007

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 2003

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 1965

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 2007

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 ITY National Archives 1994

And then she found that the shattering was the goal.

Temptation's Price Schulze, Dallas 1992

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 Cornwell, Bernard 1988

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

What to say about ... All My Sons 2010

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? 2009