Whatever the cause, witnesses portrayed a shattering scene at the park yesterday.

One of the most shattering scenes is a confrontation at the Dachau concentration camp.

Eventually the truth spills out in a melodramatic and too-abrupt but shattering scene.

In what Mr. Ong describes as "shattering scenes," the dancers rediscovered old friends and acquaintances still living in the neighborhood.

"So she-" Camilla bowed her scarred head on her hands and cried again, while Magda heard in her mind that shattering scene.

"Wind-Up Bird" has some powerful scenes of antic comedy and some shattering scenes of historical power, but such moments do not add up to a satisfying, fully fashioned novel.

It was the annihilation of their homes and livelihoods that is evident from these shattering scenes of Homs, and the deaths of precious family members, that have driven hundreds of thousands to make that death-defying journey into Europe.

Many fans of “One Life” remember the shattering scenes that first engrossed me, when a character named Karen Wolek — a doctor’s wife kept on a strict budget — confessed on a witness stand that she had become a prostitute to pay for extravagances.