Word: shatteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...characters are not copies of people but metaphors on man. They talk their heads off in cartwheeling leaps of language which in a drawing room or on a radio program would probably shatter the bric-a-brac or the microphone. But they are real: they reveal, almost with each line spoken, something of the perpetually mysterious character of human.nature; their laughter and their tears ring true; the theatricality of their action, the preposterousness of their language seem, after a while, quite as natural as a lesser theatricality, a lesser preposterousness...
Love, says Ironist Gill, is not just the sweet mystery of life; it is a tremendous natural force that can shatter people who resist it. And people who truly know how to love can be dreadful nuisances in a world of people...
...cubists, particularly his friend Marcel Duchamp, had taught him to shatter shapes. He cracked the sky as well, painted Pennsylvania factories and Provincetown houses impaled, piecemeal, on diagonal slivers of blue, white and grey light...
...seemed on the verge of disintegrating in a cloud of steam like a vaudeville Ford of the 1920s. A faction headed by former Assistant U.S. Attorney General O. John Rogge was threatening to yank the Communists out of the driver's seat-an operation which seemed likely to shatter the weakened chassis and send Henry Wallace flying skyward in a spray of worn piston rings...
...Englishman with an Eton education, a fine nose for humbug and a genius for exposing it. He was only 46 when he died, but in his lifetime he had seen too much of the super-humbug of totalitarianism to be complacent about it. No writer had done more to shatter the complacency of others. As George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them, whatever their shortcomings, are distinguished by a forthrightness of mind and a limber, cutting style...