| 单词 | splinter |
| 例句 | "How'd it happen? I was...I was working on a sculpture. Did I mention I carve sculptures out of wood? Kind of like the ones you see in museums. Cool stuff but lots of splinters." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was like that sudden chill in her bedroom had settled in right under her heart, lodged into her like an icy splinter. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Blinking, Sefia leaned on the side of the crate for support, digging the heel of her hand into the splintered edge, as if the pain would distract her from the upheaval inside her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The group walked to their morning classes, splintering as they broke off to find their homerooms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His kick caught me in the kidney and sent me sprawling into the wreckage again, splintering it even further. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In 1938, she and two other Soviet women had splintered a world record in a long-distance flight they made across Siberia. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The front door splintered, and I saw the chandeliers swinging wildly in the foyer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The sedan chair splintered into pieces, and lanterns were scattered. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The three splintered beams in the ceiling hold up God knows what load: ten tons of carbonized hotel and the corpses of eight anti-aircraft men and untold unexploded ordnance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Pain slammed through her face, light splintering her vision. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The autopsy report claimed that the channel of pus formed as a result of infection caused by the tiny splintered bones broken off by the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with broken rocks and splintered wood and pulverized shrubs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He felt a rattling pressure of uncertainty, making his head splinter with pain. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t do anything obvious, but perhaps he could find a loose thread, or a long splinter from the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As I entered the room, he swung the bat for the last time, splintering the headboard, then began working on the bed frame with karate kicks. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I put my ear close to the panel—not too close because I didn’t want to get a splinter—and listened. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z My sleeve is torn away by a splinter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And I remembered how the splinters in some of the boards were raised from the grain by the wind, the sun and the rain until the clapboards shone with a satiny, silvery, silver-fish sheen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “If someone could help me out of these bloody planks, I would be grateful. I think I may have a splinter through my crotch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We are still looking into any possible ties between Aziz and known terrorist organizations or splinter groups. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Later, after the brittle splinter of shattering glass, Susan said she knew he didn’t mean to flirt but he must understand that people were horribly presumptuous and the gossip here was vicious, just vicious. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The kid didn’t move, didn’t even lift his rifle, and there was no way to mark his shot, no splash of dirt, no splintering of rock, nothing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A splinter of glass wounded Gregor in the face, some corrosive medicine or other dripped over him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when a splinter caught under her fingernail, biting deep into the tender flesh, did Naomi react. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo had tried to copy him, but wound up splintering the wood instead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The stub of an ear stuck out on one side, and there was no eye on that side, only a dark socket with a splinter of bone showing above it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It comes close to hitting Widget as it crashes to the ground, splintering into pieces. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The bird was so dry it near splintered the tongues of the officers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The spear split in two, showering the floor with splinters. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She took the tray back down to the kitchen, where she poured herself a cup of tea from Ana’s untouched pot, and very deliberately cracked the egg on the countertop, watching the shell splinter. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, they picked their way across an ice field splintered by jagged crevasses, keeping to the solid expanses between the deadly rifts, and arguing about Nina’s sleeping habits. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The only thing I got out of that class were splinters,” she says. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z For days she’d proudly shown the little brush, made of splinters of wood shoved into a lump of clay, to anyone who would listen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A few scorings, and small flake-like splinters near the base, were all the marks that it bore of the fury of the Ents. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He didn’t stop till they were plastic splinters. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z What we eat is vaguely Thai: chicken, spicy and succulent, a salad of exotic foliage, red leaves, tiny splinters of purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He yanks the rod out of his flesh and tosses it aside, like it's nothing more than a splinter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The floor was made of warped planks lull of splinters, and his sleeping pallet smelled of mildew, but those discomforts were mild compared to what Davos had expected. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I picked at the doorpost with a fingernail and a long splinter the size of my palm peeled away with little resistance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Combat medicine was torn flesh, gaping belly wounds, splintered bones, burns, blood, and agony. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z You had to know what wood was best for spears, and why, and even bow to turn them so that they would not splinter or warp. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Bran glimpsed skin tear like cheap cloth, heard the splintering of bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As nails gave way and boards splintered, I heard several puppy whimpers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The doors splintered and the head of a bronze battering ram emerged through the breach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The glass buckled, some of the pieces shattering and splintering on the floor beside me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Another shell goes overhead and Werner imagines he hears the wood in the huge beams above him splinter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As I followed the Grand Basin along, something snagged at the back of my mind like a splinter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The cuts were full of glass, some of it in splinters, some of it in powder like shining sand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They broke their ashwood spears to splinters, but both stayed in the saddle, and the horses stood the shock. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The broken glass clicked, ground, and splintered beneath his heel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They never acknowledged one another, not even in the village church, with its six splintering pews. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The city dissolved in a shower of ancient glass and splintered quartz. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A splinter dug into his hand as he tightened his grip on the board. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Don’t act so superior. You yell your head off if you get an itty-bitty splinter in your finger,” Emilia said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Reed took back his knife, blew the last splinters from its blade, and folded it up into his pocket again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As the sea crashed around him and the deck rose and fell beneath his feet, he had seen Dagon s Feast and Red Tide slammed together so violently that both exploded into splinters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One long, poisonous fang was sinking deeper and deeper into his arm and it splintered as the basilisk keeled over sideways and fell, twitching, to the floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Milo’s voice splintered into fragments, and he clutched at Yossarian’s shirt front as though drowning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When Black Betha reversed her oars, the river rushed into the splintered hole she left, and Lady’s Shame fell to pieces before his eyes, spilling dozens of men into the river. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ekon dodged just in time, rolling away over leaves as it struck at a nearby tree and splintered the wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A second later she heard a crash and the sound of splintering wood. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z These fantasies gave Ajarry comfort when her burdens were such to splinter her into a thousand pieces. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Drunk, voices slurred, they recalled the violent tremors that had splintered the earth like a clay pot, the dead who’d strewn Lkossa’s streets in the aftermath. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She stripped away the green, resinous wood, pausing to remove a splinter from her thumb. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An icy splintering sound fills the room as cracks branch out from their point of impact. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z At the summit, lightning had splintered the giant pine tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I have seen way too many charred and splintered husks of trees to be blasé about something like that, let me tell you. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Buildings spill broken walls and splintered roofs across our path. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A shell hit a tree top across the road and splinters flickered through the grove and spattered against the brick wall. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The machine jolted into gullies, lurched and coughed; Amarante bounced out of his seat, clinging for dear life; fence posts splintered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands burned, and a splinter worked its way into my palm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “You have come to sign your contract,” the king said, and his voice made her bones splinter. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She was inching forward, when Kapu splintered a bone with his mere baby teeth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But new questions lodged themselves in my mind like splinters of wood stuck under the skin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Many of the paintings had been transported to the Konigstein, but some were seriously injured by splinters of bombshells,—notably Francia’s “Baptism of Christ.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My hand gropes farther, splinters of wood—now I remember again that we are lying in the graveyard. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He left the axe buried in the wood, for splinters flew and he was afraid one might strike her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z This was followed by an awful splintering noise as the enormous rainbow snapped right across the middle and became two separate pieces. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the trees couldn’t wait to fall over, as if their sole purpose in the universal scheme of things was to grow big enough to topple with a really good, splintering crash. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Before he knew what was happening, Ricky improvised a hip throw and Luke landed on top of the flimsy coffee table, splintering the wood and glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Natalie collapsed against the broken wall and splintered shelves, her face buried in her arms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The coral splintered, and massive sections sheared off in an avalanche of color. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The caulk Arturo had tried to apply lay splintered in the seams. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Jafer's right wrist ended in the ruin of tom flesh and splintered bone left by Ghost's jaws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Just before he wakes, he feels a splintering at the back of his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The explosions come so fast that the splinters strike again and again against the wall of the house and sweep in through the window. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Boromir flung himself against the door and heaved it to; then he wedged it with broken sword-blades and splinters of wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The sounds of distant cannon fire reached them, but there was no splintering of wood, no splash of iron in the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Emeralds were still scattered all over the floor, along with pieces of marble and splintered wood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The words left my mouth before I even realized it, the Hebrew sharp on the tongue, like splinters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He left it there in the moonlight, a heap of varnished wicker and splintered wood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was bleeding badly, his skin pierced with splinters and broken glass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I stood with my hand over my mouth, staring in disbelief at the empty field until I realized there were splinters of brick and small white plaster tiles pressed into the dirt and grass. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As it splintered away, it pulled a little puff of dirt from the ground, spraying it into the zmeyok’s eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She brought the staff down upon his sword, splinters flying into the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The blow had splintered his jaw, shattered his front teeth, and left him four lips where other men had but two. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the distance, where such a short time ago he had played with such power and joy, she spotted his beloved drum, crushed and in splinters in the dirt. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There were yellow splinters all around her desk. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The wood of the door at the end of the walkway started to splinter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And I felt my heart splinter as I said it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z An instant later came a crack as loud as thunder, and the bottom of the wagon came ripping loose in an explosion of splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Look,” Hagrid twisted his crossbow uncomfortably in his hands; there was a loud splintering sound and it snapped in two. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He took the lantern to the stove, lit a splinter of kindling through the open door-draft, and held it to the lantern wick the way his father always did. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her crate lay on the deck, its broken side splintered where Archer had shoved it open. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In English class today, we discussed one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, and it felt as if something were splintering inside me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His stallion leapt from the end of the quay and over a splintered gunwale, landing with a splash and a scream in ankle-deep water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even before the flagpole begins to peel and splinter, the ground underneath arches and slides forward into its own new destiny. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The dining-room table was on the verge of splintering, Clara was complaining of migraines, and Jaime was locked in his room with wax in his ears, trying to concentrate on his studies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he heard a splintering sound from the front of the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It whistled over the pond, gliding like a hawk before its blade grazed Adiah’s shoulder and landed in a nearby tree with a dull thud, splintering its wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In fact, there are shards and shards of splintered glass, sticky with lemonade, all over the porch. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, splinters slicing all the way through the glove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He heard car crashes at least once a week, but this sound was worse - Celestial bronze crumpling, wood splintering, stallions screaming and a goddess wailing in two distinct voices, both of them very surprised. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A few splinters peeked out of my skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It creaked so loudly the abbot flinched, expecting it to splinter under the boy’s enormous weight. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He felt around the edges of the barn, wincing at the splinters, searching for...for what? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She says she could see that a bullet had splintered a bone in the girl’s arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She knew every splinter and crack in each of the thirty wooden floorboards. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I try to pull them back and he squeezes so tight it feels like my bones are splintering. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He saw another dead horse, a splintered wagon; the severed forefoot of a horse lay near him in gray dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The white lance and the striped one exploded in splinters within a second of each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And then, as if in answer, the earth gave a deep, splintering crack and threw him to his knees. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was her rope; there were the splintered ruins of her platform. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pete says to me, whittling off fine splinters from the ends of his chopsticks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see the splintered bone poking through his calf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The splitting sound, the thunderous impact, the splintering and bits of branches showering him, all had happened when the huge tree crashed to earth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The nose was gone, the tail nothing but splinters. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I blink my eyes to keep dirt and splinters out. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He set the pieces of the lid against the stone shelf and splintered them with a series of kicks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A splinter slashes into my helmet, but has already travelled so far that it does not go through. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw the caved-in, splintered wreckage that had been her mother’s guitar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Initial reports tied Mr. Aziz to a terrorist splinter group, but the FBI now is now calling it a simple case of mistaken identity. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Unless there was the sound of breaking glass, screams, or splintering furniture, Mr. Larson didn’t even look up. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z He traced a finger over the splintered and warped lid, then let his hand fall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Papa said members from the Black Legion—a Ku Klux Klan splinter group—came in the night, stood right outside our windows, and set the place on hre. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We jump up and a gun blast rings out, splintering the branches over our heads, but we run anyway. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A door somewhere is kicked open—I hear wood chips splinter. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She quietly lowered herself to the middle step and pretended to pick a splinter from the bottom of her foot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I heard a huge crackling sound like some giant tree being splintered in the forest. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My lute hit the cobblestones bowl first and made a splintering noise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her voice seemed to stick into his brain like jagged splinters of glass. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Instantly, the world splintered, split by the strands of hair in front of my eye. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I tried joining in, to forget about my terrible, awful, absurd idea, but when I sang, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” my voice splintered in my throat and came out a garbled, high-pitched mess. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Each splintered bar bent gracefully outward, like the petal of a chrysanthemum, and in the center of the empty cage lay one small golden feather. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It careened by the cooler and bounced off the wall before splintering on the floor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed massive boulders, the stumps of newly sawed trees, splinters of shattered ones. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Queen’s men in studded jacks and halfhelms handed each passing man, woman, or child a piece of white weirwood: a stick, a splintered branch as pale as broken bone, a spray of blood-red leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She worked the splinter loose with her tongue and teeth and began to reckon up the too-few options left to her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she picked at the window sill until she had a splinter of wood and put it in her mouth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The wood locked around my neck was rough and splintering. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Tell me about it—all that cracking and splintering! Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The weathered planks splintered beneath the impact, and Ysilla let out a shriek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I scraped my nose a bit on the old wooden door, and I hoped I didn’t get any splinters in my face—getting them out wouldn’t be fun. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Glass shattered, the frame splintered and snapped, and I pulled the photo loose from the mess. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Max grabs his plank of wood, steps toward the curtain, and I’m turning Helena, ready to run to the bedroom, when the door is kicked open, a little explosion of splinters flying from the lock. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A dozen times Jeyne and Sansa cried out in unison as riders crashed together, lances exploding into splinters while the commons screamed for their favorites. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As it skids down the steep, irregular terrain in fits and starts, the mass of ice splinters into a jumble of huge, tottering blocks called seracs, some as large as office buildings. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They wrestled another gnawed and splintered post from the ground. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z One of his legs was twisted unnaturally and the splintered bone showing through the skin was very, very white. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ambrose Spike had reported some minor splintering at the top inside edges of the door, but the shoring of earthworks was holding out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Look at my wand —” It had snapped, almost in two; the tip was dangling limply, held on by a few splinters. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The sound of children screaming, wood splintering, and life departing roared from behind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Already, ants and bugs crawled among the cracked bark and splintered wood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Thomas jumped as a terrible crash sounded right outside their door, accompanied by screams and the splintering of wood, like some iron-jawed monster was eating the entire stairwell. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The splinters took to the wind and scattered for hundreds of miles. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I picked at a splinter of wood on the gate. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Another boom sounded and then an explosion rocked the far end of the Ocarrion as splintered wood flew through the air. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I bawl at the splintered sunlight where half a second ago she stood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The stair cracked and splintered in glittering sparks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A couple of splinters whizz through the top of the kitchen window. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They flashed until I thought they would splinter and crack when she told Dad she wasn’t going back to the city. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I cringed, but instead of a terrible crash, there was just a dull splintering of wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before the man died, he had managed to shoot off the entire underside of Cherrie’s arm, splintering the bone and severing the tendons. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Falteringly I work my way farther, I move off over the ground like a crab and rip my hands sorely on the jagged splinters, as sharp as razor blades. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There, beneath rotting wood and twisted splintered branches, she found her hidden sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One says something to another and the jamb splinters and the door bangs open. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The furniture lay in heaps of splintered wood and feathers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved on more slowly, and she kept watching the sky until her eyes splintered again with tears of cold, and she saw no end to the numberless witches flying north. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Some villagers remained at the body beating her head and face, smashing the little mirrors into silver splinters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed to clear out the splinter or the foot would get worse, and quickly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces with wide white dirty flowers and he looked out to see a battery working steadily, firing into the woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In her hand she holds a hammer, its wooden handle worn and splintered. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t look at the carved word, or the splinter of moon, or the blue and green houses. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Bartenders and waiters could only stand by in complete shock as Nation splintered whatever furniture, kegs, and bottles she encountered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z All hands remained on or below the desks, etched with initials, new with splinters, brown with age. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He found what was left of the sword a few feet away, the end splintered and twisted like a tree struck by lightning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In the morning, after he’s gone to work but before I’ve gone to school, I open his yellowing and splintering bedroom door. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Sefia crouched beneath it, scuffling at the splintered ceiling, and unlocked the door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Factions and splinter groups had for years prevented Rome from taming the eastern territories. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The earthquakes, the door slam- mings, and Esteban Trueba’s cane had opened cracks in the walls and splintered the doors, and the Venetian blinds had slipped from their hinges. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust and splinters fell from above as something gave in the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His magnifying-glass had splintered into many pieces and he had leapt up shrieking, "My father is going to get you for this!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z After several speeches and more singing, the crowd splintered into dozens of small groups, which entered segregated businesses and sat down in protest. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They could hear the wood splintering under his teeth—a sound like a mouse in a shed wainscot at midnight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Timber splinters, as though the rubble teeters on some final fulcrum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He hammered on it with a fist, and cursed when a splinter snagged the fabric of his glove. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was a flat, barracks-style building with splintered walls and windows boarded with planks of wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then the ax handle come ’live; it shakes and cracks into long skinny splinters, Pap screams, and his hands come flying off the handle like it had turnt itself into a lightning bolt.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I stepped back as it gave way, the wagon splintering as if its wood were rotten as an old stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His fingers picked long splinters from the wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We climbed over a jumble of bricks and splintered wood and twisted pipe. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “My dad built it. It’s sturdy and has no splinters. He sanded it down for days. Good job, right?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth picked his way around the splintered desk to the empty window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z All I've felt these past few years has been metal, splinter, dirty straw. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He described Neubauer as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z As the winds grew in ferocity and speed, the grains of sand began to sting like bites of mosquitoes and then like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her hem caught on a loose nail in the splintered wooden bench and ripped as she fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I just want to see if that’s — ” The sound of gunfire splintered the air. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The fourth sliced his stick in two, splintering the wood and shearing through the lead core. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A satisfying cloud of dust and splinters swirled around her knees. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She stood on the quarterdeck as Nico picked mast splinters out of his arms and Leo punched buttons on the ship’s console. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The stout wooden door hung splintered and broken, as if by axes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After two full years at West Oakland High, he’d stopped noticing how the lunch tables in the quad were splintered and falling apart. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jilin was clearly noted on the map, and trails splintered off from the village and led into the Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She picked a splinter from the rough wood of the table and said nothing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The echo of splintering wood made me flinch and nearly drop the revolver. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Already his spine feels as if it might splinter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As my uncle clucked again to the horses, I noticed the pain in my finger and saw the splinter still lodged in it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A someone who splintered the knot into silver threads that tangled us, netted us, made us long for the dull chafe of the previous boredom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It had stained-glass windows, white walls, and roughly hewn wood benches that could give you splinters if you wiggled too much, and hurt your bottom if you sat too long. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Desastar,” Seven began, and bit by bit, small splinters of wood began coming off the gazebo floor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Beneath the screech of splintering wood, he heard the deep thrum- thump of the Fury's fore catapult. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Narcissus was nocking an arrow, but it was so old and brittle, it broke into splinters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Up he went, wincing at every splintered sound. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then she noticed Aunty Ifeka’s kiosk, or what remained of it: splinters of wood, packets of groundnuts lying in the dust. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She pushes aside a splintered dresser and sees a glint of metal on the floor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The crack of the splintering wood released a hubbub of whispers and murmurs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So many questions splintered his mind he couldn’t keep them straight. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We moved out in a tight group, holding on to each other through the field of moving slop and splintered boards. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Shirley knew better than to ask Mother to remove a splinter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I undress and hang my clothes on a splinter of wood on the door. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, California’s native hunter-gatherers initially numbered about 200,000 in aggregate, but they were splintered among a hundred tribelets, none of which required a war to be defeated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hours and hours later, Harry woke quite suddenly in the pitch blackness and gave a small yelp of pain: His arm now felt full of large splinters. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She crawled over the remaining pile, getting a few dozen splinters in her free hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I break off some larger splinters from the stick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Pale red pennons trailed from the ends of a few lances, but many more carried battle-axes and great- swords and shields hacked half to splinters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Two soldiers extract me from the bunk like a splinter. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Instead, as though alive itself, it poured in a thin yellow slab of brightness from under the door, illuminating the dust and splinters of the hall floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in the hospital for over a month and has splinters of glass in his spine that the doctors can’t remove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Getting a splinter through your eye and dying.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He pretended to be removing a splinter from his foot, but he was cautiously scanning the trail and the grass around us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It made an instant cast for a broken finger, and even pulled splinters out of your skin. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She returned to the doorway holding a crude, narrow box made of splintered wood, wire, and long, jutting nails. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The boys howled as the wooden plank split, their stupid excitement splintering Pia's skin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z She clutched at a splintered femur and sucked it greedily. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The tykes would be scratched and splintered by scraps of her own destroyed past, but there was nothing she could do. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something wedged under his skin—some kind of metal splinter, he thought, though he couldn’t remember where or when he’d gotten it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z His gaze wandered to the ripped-up grass under the splintered branches and crushed boughs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I now saw that the speckles in her eyes were splinters of bones, shards of things she had broken over the years. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He has his field light and is swinging its beam repeatedly over a welter of compacted wreckage in the far corner-stones and cement and splintered wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A grandfather clock lay splintered at their feet, its face cracked, its pendulum lying a little farther away like a dropped sword. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There were pieces of cement and splinters of wood flying in every direction, and the air was electric with the flash of gun muzzles and the sparks from the bullets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The tree is burned, freshly burned and freshly knocked over, too, the unburned splinters clean and white like new wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The smell of strawberries filled the air alongside the sound of splintering glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Trees once splintered had begun to grow again along the path up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Half his teeth were gone, and half of those still left him were broken and splintered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When another inmate appeared, walking down the flats, the porter attacked him, first breaking the broom handle over his head and then trying to gouge his face with the splintered ends. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other skulls had a sameness to them, though several had been cracked and splintered by the blows that had slain them, and one had filed, pointed teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sefia turned to the crate and dug her fingernail into the letters, pulling up splinters and flicking them into the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Two captains fell across a chair, and splintered it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m still figuring what happened when another rock farther away shatters in a shower of dust and splintered stone. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He heard Newt yell, but he ignored him and ran down the hall, sidestepping and jumping over hundreds of splintered pieces of wood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Both boys were barely settled before the door blew inward, cascading across the foyer floor in splinters as if obliterated by a stick of dynamite. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z With the knife, he split some tinder from one of the splintered planks and set a fire on the grass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A splinter dug into his hand, but he wasn’t about to wince. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Z picked at his teeth with the splinter. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Our clan, the Plain Janes, has splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Hazel heard a cracking sound, like the keel had splintered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Although unshielded from the elements, all the woodwork appeared to be in flawless condition: no peeling paint, no cracks, no splinters. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Its nose was splintered, and the hull was cracked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, at the first sight of my phone’s shattered screen, my heart had splintered into a million pieces. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He turned back to the keyhole before him, where Mr. Desanti, the ninth-grade math teacher, had tried to force his key into the lock and splintered the toothpick deep into the cylinders. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the very least, think of the terrible places she could get splinters! Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Watch for splinters, son,” his mother warned as he walked over the gapped wooden slats to the dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Cracks splinter up my arms and through my shoulders and the front of my neck. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I rub my finger across the wood back and forth harder and harder until a splinter cuts me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One crack might not be enough to bring a fortress’s defenses down, but it was enough to splinter into two cracks, and then three, and then four. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I watched, certain that it was about to impale itself on the broken limb, but the jagged spear of hard wood barely dimpled its chest before splintering. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z My fingertips traced the length of each board, feeling along the splinters and the knots in the wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they felt that “a splinter terrorist cell, or a lone actor...would be more likely to exploit a hurricane on site. This includes persons pursuing a political agenda, religious extremists, or other disgruntled individuals.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There were dead bodies and wounded bodies all down the wall and all down through the trees and blood was streaked on the trees and rocks and rich wet wood splinters were everywhere. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To be afraid of this ridiculous dog when there was a tiger about was like being afraid of splinters when trees are falling down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun was just beginning to drive its first splinters of light through the pines, bouncing against tree trunks and earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But by then the pullers had done so much damage that a splinter of bone was sticking out through the skin of the forearm. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And all about, stone, cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards, was scattered far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Bones were scattered on the floor at his feet, cracked and scorched and splintered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But now, glancing down, I saw something else: silver sparkles, bright-needled splinters from the broken mirror, mixed with large, unmistakable shards of a gold-rimmed highball glass, the twin of the one in my own hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I saw no possibility of organizing a splinter movement, for what would be the next step? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Slides and blood tubes were the only glass objects allowed in a hot zone, because of the danger of glass splinters if something broke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The latter splintered into a whole slew of issues. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I watched as he placed staples in the splintered wood cabinet and on the sagging but meticulously lined shelves above the sink. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A rending, splintering sound made them all look back at the house. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was blood already—he’d stumbled and ripped open the tender web of skin at the base of his thumb on a jagged splinter—and buckets of sweat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z With a final roar, the giant splintered into a million tiny fragments of darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She watched her pass through the living room and the dining room—the rugs unraveling and the table splintering and the paintings on the walls turning to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It snapped its jaws together until its mouth was a mess of green blood, yellow foamy poison, and splintered weapons. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She could feel the heat rising from the ground outside, through the wheat brown, splintered planks of the outhouse in the yard, up through the walls and into her room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z When the bullet hit my temple, it fractured the bone, sending splinters of bone into the lining of my brain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even today, crossing a vast, splintered wilderness of ice would be a risky task requiring special vehicles and a big support staff. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “But . . . Kamal Abdic . . .” The chair c rashes against the kitchen wall with such force that one of the legs splinters away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It blasts away the ropes and the stake, spraying fiery splinters all over us and obliterating all thought, Noise, and sound. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Jason took a last look at the splintering ship. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her face suddenly serious, Lissa fidgeted with a splinter of wood jutting up from the table. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The priest could get a splinter that would make his tongue swell to the size of a turnip and that’s enough to choke you and kill you entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z With a roar he charged across the corridor and when he was close he left the castle floor with both feet and the door splintered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Frankie grabbed on to a splintered door frame and looked down at the ground that was still again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The wind blew, cracking and splintering the remaining bones, but he sensed the presence of Mercer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She was thinking about her nightmare—Thalia’s tree splintered by lightning, Gaea rising on the hillside and unleashing her monsters on Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The piano jerked out of our hands, sending us lurching forward, and bounced into the house, splintering the door frame. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He kicked the splintered box out of the way and the flat black body of the rat lay exposed, its two long yellow tusks showing distinctly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Four of his ribs were splintered, one had pierced his left lung, which was what made him bleed from his mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His axe was shivering her shield, cracking the wood on the downswing, tearing off long pale splinters when he wrenched it back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It takes some work and a few splinters, but I manage to get enough of a grip to lift the floorboard.... Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z She feared that the wind might upend her and she would crash to earth and break into a million small splinters. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z An old brown crate covered in layers of dust, with sagging hinges and a partially splintered lid, sat there. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As I grabbed the wooden backboard to steady myself, I felt a splinter go into my finger from the rough wood, but I ignored the pain. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Assassin kicked at the bits of splintered wood on the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He pouted his perfectly formed lips and surveyed the splintered shingles and abandoned nets from which the unsavory fishy smell arose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He lifted it up high over his head and brought it down with a loud, splintering crash. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The rungs have been roughly sawed, and his palms take splinters the whole way. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The second mortar hit hard, cracks splintering through the rock of the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Gwin climbed up to his shoulder, baring his tiny teeth, sharp as splinters of glass, as if he had recognized the hatred in Meggie’s eyes as they rested on his master. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As they closed to either side, the blue knight reined hard, smashing one man full in the face with his splintered shield while his black destrier lashed out with a steel-shod hoof at the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But in the Kiangsu city where they now lived the people spoke in syllables which splintered from their lips and from the ends of their tongues. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Next he ripped down one of Mo's pressed flowers and broke the frame into splinters. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Ishmael saw where she had worked with the wheelbarrow at bringing cordwood from the shed to the kitchen door; there were splinters around the wood block where she’d cut kindling. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z You could hear splinters in my voice, bones rubbing jagged against one another. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulging tongues of ice had broken doors off their hinges, and through their splintered jambs I could see evidence of a raid: kicked- over furniture, drawers torn open, snows of paper on the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Within five minutes, her head felt like a log being split to splinters. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius was about to burst through the shutters, splintering slats and latches, and wrap that one hemplike pigtail around her throat until she turned blue. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They shot out of the garage before it was fully open, leaving a Cadillac-shaped hole of splintered wood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The next morning, at school, everything seemed back to normal, but she knew something had changed, and she held this knowledge inside her like a splinter, something she was careful not to touch. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was going to get her wish, she thought as she grabbed for a splintered desk. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On the way without my having noticed it, Kat has caught a splinter in the head. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabinet, table, and chairs splintered to pieces as they crashed to the concrete courtyard. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She had not been under its spell in years, since she brought the hatchet down on Blake’s doghouse and sent the splinters into the air. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The apartment door hung open, as did the door to our bedroom, both the locks splintered from the wood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Z picked at the wooden door frame, loosening a splinter. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Again it swings away, revealing a splintering light, and a deeper voice than previously heard. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z She was galloping through the rocky forest by the sea cliffs when her foot splintered apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But my eternal friend Alef helps me find the splinters of my life...and piece them back together. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z On April 13, they nearly crashed another canoe when two paddles splintered against the rocks while battling the rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z That cracking sound again and then a scream of tortured wood, and suddenly the air was full of shards and splinters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He aimed them at the second floor of the house, at my father and mother’s bedroom, and I could see puffs of white paint and splintered wood fly off where the bullets hit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He heard the tiller break and he lunged at the shark with the splintered butt. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she took the biggest knife from the kitchen, slipped it into the doorjamb, and forced it until the dried-out wood splintered and came out in fragments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I chipped his sacred religious item into long splinters using a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When I met Sarah, now my wife, for the fourth or fifth time, I told her about the splintered minds of my cousin and two uncles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I carried the glasses with me for weeks, until one evening I crushed them underfoot in rage and despair, shattering the glass into splinters, because he wasn’t coming back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Herbie picked up a rock, but instead of running away the pig charged, and the volunteer had to run for his life, leaping high into the cottonwood that lay across his splintered outhouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His are such a light brown, practically yellow, or copper maybe, and all splintered with green. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z When he turns to go, the perfumers complacency splinters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As we sped down the interstate I watched the landscape splinter and barb, the rolling black summits of the Bear River Mountains giving way to the razor-edged Rockies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Just at this moment Stuart heard a splintering crash, saw the bow of the Lillian plow through his rigging, and felt the whole ship tremble from stem to stern with the force of the collision. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z In China, families lived in compounds; a splintering in the family was called dividing the kitchen, and often meant that, literally. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z As the car moved, the splintering of wood sounded over their heads, a splintering that changed into splitting of boards and scraping of metal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her muscles felt like they'd become wood and she imagined her bones were splintering and growing bones of their own. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Both boats were state- of-the-art shells—Pocock’s latest and greatest, sleek splinters of cedar, the Husky Clipper and the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had a piece of splintered wood sticking out of his stomach and blood leaking all over the place. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I yanked at the stick again but it was stuck real good and I only ended up with splinters in my hand. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A bit of blood, a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tanin took her arm and helped her to her feet, brushing splinters of wood from her black sleeve. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The post was splintered and gouged, gnawed in places. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then the walkways started to heave up and down, making terrible splintering noises. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. McDuff came down from the mine to restore the fence and reported it had been reduced to splinters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The light splintered against the thick gray mist. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I was still astride the top rail when the struggling bulls crashed through the fence, splintering the posts and rails, and toppling me to the ground almost under them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The splintered wood looked like teeth in a wide-open mouth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Not a shred of our childhood, not a splinter of our tree house, not a bit of our New Year’s Eve kiss. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Most awkward way ever to get a splinter.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes they turned up a bit of brick, a splinter of wood. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve got it,” Z said, grabbing two pieces of splintered two-by-fours off the ground before Diana had a chance to move. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The other hand rested lazily at the twelve o’clock position on the steering wheel, pointing one finger up the road at an old splintered sign. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I stomped and stomped on it till it was green plastic splinters. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z A splinter dug deep into her finger, and she gulped back tears. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The trunk splintered and broke, leaving the draccus with a large but manageable mouthful that it bolted down more or less whole. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was a sound of splintering wood, and the door swung inward. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Everything made to ache and splinter and seek and throb by the loss of our parents, our homes, our words, our Elder and our RiRi, our safety. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There was burst after burst in the dirty air, yellow lightning shattering the ground, splintering rock, ripping limbs off the great trees and sending them twisting swirling dancing along the ground, along the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With each impact more and more splinters popped from the fresh floor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Specifically the famous, terrifying scene from The Shining where Jack Nicholson’s demonic smile and bulging eyes appear through a splintered door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Black Muslims came in many stripes, from mainline Nation of Islam to the splinter Five Percenters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The young nurse returned with a dustpan and brush and began to sweep up the glittery splinters. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Instead, it splintered the front of the carriage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, but it’s not just Communists. There are Socialists, radicals, and lots of other splinter groups. They’re all pretty much the same,” Trueba replied. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice echoed as he went into the bathroom and worsened the splintering pain in his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s so nice being there, I don’t even mind the splinters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He's a good friend of Kerling's who described him as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I heard my stolen shirt tear, felt the splintered wood scrape my side... Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z No day to wreck a life already splintered like a cheap windowpane, but Violet, well you had to know Violet. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I achieved was getting splinters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Just one delivered to a human would break every bone, would turn any piece of furniture into splinters, would reduce an entire house into a pile of rubble. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I had come to think of the horses as so real that for a moment I was surprised to see blond, splintered wood instead of blood and bone where the legs had been chopped off. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A door, torn from its hinges, lay splintered. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He remembered walls of pale red stone festooned with patches of nitre, a grey door of splintered wood, four inches thick and studded with iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He glanced away from the oily green gaze that watched him, and held up before him his staff, that looked now like a splinter, like a twig. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It seemed even more so when we realized that everywhere around us were nails and bits of concrete and knifelike splinters of wood, many of them driven inches into the ground by the blast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Velaryon galley exploded like a child's toy dropped from a tower, spraying splinters as long as a man's arm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had one huge shot of the splintered walkways sticking up in all directions, like Godzilla had just trampled through there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Walder cast his splintered lance aside, spied Bran, and reined up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With a grinding, splintering, tearing crash, Swordfish split the rotted hulk asunder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The board’s metal-detector fights flickered out one by one as Tally left the splintered end of the iron bridge behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The wood floors were dark and difficult to clean because the mop strings caught in splinters and cracks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Both bones of his lower leg were splintered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "They make them to splinter on impact, so no one is hurt." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Marcus looked up when I approached, and broke into a splintered grin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I hold fast to the sides of Shorty’s cousin’s kitchen table, crazily contemplating whether the fire of a conk could lead a man to splinter wood with his fingernails. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside it was the splintered body of a tree, still rolling to a stop after the collision. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Twisted and leaning pillars reared their splintered stems above the flood, but all the roads were drowned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When the demons moved on, Percy and Annabeth reached the spot and found nothing left except a few splintered bones and glistening stains drying in the heat of the river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A splintering crash rang across the Blackwater as a stone the size of a horse landed square amidships on one of the galleys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Genie should’ve had on socks, especially since his mother had warned him about the splinters in the floor upstairs, but he just couldn’t sleep in them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since past. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He stooped to pick up a splintered branch and examined it critically. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The canoe of his grandfather, plastered over and over, had a splintered hole broken in it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d stood by the front gates, leaning against them, when she’d heard a loud crack and something had zipped by her right ear, sending tiny splinters of wood flying before her eyes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In front of the east-facing entrance of the hogan, the metal fence posts of the cornfield poked out of the dry earth like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z From the direction of the barn Jody heard a shrill whistling scream and a splintering of wood, and then a man’s voice shouting. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Others splintered like buckshot and left the giants with some painful new tattoos. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There is just one little hole, it must have been a very tiny, stray splinter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A thunderous, splintering boom erupted through the chamber as the ridderak shattered the wooden door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He removed small pieces of bone from the wound, likely splintered off the rib when the bullet slammed into Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As soon as she spoke, a face—if you could call it that—lowered itself to the doorway, and I shivered at the twisted mouth of splintered wooden planks and knotted chains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the distance, I hear a splintering crack and my head snaps up just in time to see a short branch fall from the canopy, crumpling in the undergrowth below. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Another splintering crack echoed like a gunshot deep in the Maafa, and the ship tilted, lifting me higher while Uncle Cotton slid to the other side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Old Tallow could bring down a bear with her pack of dogs, her gun, or even the razor-sharp spear that she practiced throwing into the splintered base of a tree. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Wrigley continued to work his way down the hallway, one door at a time, prying splinters of wood from the Yale locks and gathering them in his calloused palm. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I firmly believe that people’s souls can splinter off when they die. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Lloyd Jacobs, the president of a splinter Klan organization, in front of Durham’s City Hall at a march for open housing, 1967. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There, the scrub oak was lying splintered and smoking over the bank, its blackened branches in the water. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It ticked, but the face was splintered and the minute hand was bent. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It clattered down the street, breaking into splinters. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z One chair gave way and the sound of splintering wood split the air in the rear of the church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the splinters that fell were as tiny as dust. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Somehow his hand found the splintered end of a broken oar. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Maia may be too worried about her new career and her splintered family life to notice all this. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 2: Minority Status 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z I clamber across splintered decks, but it is difficult to recreate that lost world of gold fever, good-time girls and godawful hardships. The ultimate hike: three tasters of Canada’s Great Trail 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The circus cars were made of wood, and splintered before piling up. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z Slowly, she rubs oil into his cracked palms, drawing out soreness from the swells, removing splinters, taking whatever his hands will give. Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It is a singular job description, probably impossible to replicate, in part because fashion has become as splintered as every other industry in the age of digital and identity politics. Imagining a World After Anna 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Those influences are immediately apparent in the movement, which infuses a classical vocabulary with quirky, jazzy disruptions of form as 13 dancers keep remaking broad geometric patterns, then splintering into contrapuntal groups, duos and solos. Forsythe Coaches Boston Ballet in ‘The Second Detail’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Instead of a monolithic mandate delivered from on high, “Watch the Throne” delivers something more splintered and haphazard, a legitimate engagement with what it means to be new, in the now. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z Her American audience seemed to splinter between the Electric Daisy Carnival set and adult contemporary radio listeners. Ellie Goulding’s Cordial Breakup With Electronic Dance Music 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z “Consequence” is the word that splintered my mind. 2016: Our Year in Poems 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z You see splinters and nuggets of art and you leave the theater feeling like you’ve struck it rich. Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Revisits a Country-Music Legend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Rather than driving toward a frantic conclusion, the music slowly splinters, as if the component parts are slipping away, a surprising coda that leaves you thinking. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Patrick Smith, a pilot and columnist for Salon.com, says the view of Greenland, with its creeping glaciers splintering into barren rock as you're coming in off the coast, is like no other. In Pictures: The World's Most Amazing Views 2011-02-18T16:30:00Z Even Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good," also from "Saturday Morning," frequently veered away from the beloved melody, Jamal instead preferring to splinter, rearrange and interrupt it. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Lebanon’s 1970-1990 civil war splintered the country along sectarian lines and opened fissures within its Christian and Muslim communities. Play depicts Lebanon as building at risk of collapse 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z On the right, the same sequence is digitally refracted as through a prism, splintered into a breathtakingly gorgeous abstract pattern that evokes a superfine kaleidoscope or rose window. Art in Review: LESLIE THORNTON: ?Binocular? 2011-01-27T22:53:01Z “Momentum builds in ‘Millennium’ and splinters in ‘Perestroika’; it’s about putting the pieces back together again. ‘Angels’ in Maryland: An epic combination 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Love is both a many splendored and splintered thing, I guess, leaving us torn and healed through every decade of life. My Father’s Last Romance 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z She gets a nose full of splinters from their slammed doors. Don?t Call Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey a Trophy Wife 2012-04-06T22:18:06Z A stop-Romney strategy session of evangelical Christian leaders planned in Texas next weekend was only one manifestation of a party that remains splintered as the primary season begins in earnest. As Romney surges, GOP divisions sharpen 2012-01-09T02:26:00Z The novel splintered; it came to seem less like a genre in itself, and more like all of literature except for poetry. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But soon the sustained sound splinters into primordial grumbling. Review: An Orchestral Odyssey Through Chaos and Beauty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Then it folded inside itself in Season 2, testing viewers’ patience as it burrowed into Elliot’s inner struggle to reconcile his splintered selves. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3 Premiere: A Whole New World 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The glass booth’s supposedly shatterproof panes splintered, cutting her cheek, and Hedren suggests the sequence was part punishment for her rejection of him. Hitchcock experts rush to defend director over Tippi Hedren’s claims of sexual harassment 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z In Pinkwash, Mr. Doubek writes repeating guitar riffs splintered into shifting or alternating meters; he has hundreds of them, all strong. Review: Pinkwash, Songs in the Key of Catharsis 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I was finally feeling at home amid the city’s grand boulevards and splintering medieval passages. Spring in Paris, My Adopted City, After the Siege 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Whether he will be reconciled with it and forgiven, or remain splintered and lacking, is a question that resonates beyond the last page. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z What happened next depends on whom you ask: The captain and his loyalists left the island and found themselves captive in Chile, while another party splintered off and spent their captivity in Brazil. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The jock/nerd divide has splintered into a dozen different tribes, and neither are sure where they belong any more. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This is a magnificent, highly corrective history of this still splintering nation. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to this month 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z A white rémoulade muffles some of the sausage’s sting; crispy onions splinter nicely under the teeth. At Cafe Booqoo, New Orleans Favorites, Spicy and Sweet 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z But the fact that our focus is repeatedly splintered obviates much chance for emotional concentration and, consequently, the possibilities for being truly moved. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Game of Thrones will definitely end with its eighth season in 2018 but worry not, because splinter is coming. Splinter is coming! The Game of Thrones spin-offs the world deserves 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Some of the floorboards bend up steeply, as if warped by decades of humidity, and end in a row of splinters. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z As with other utopian feminist visions, however, this one quickly splintered. The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z When Carter’s patience splinters, Mr. Shannon’s gravelly baritone suddenly flares up into a screech. Critic’s Notebook: Back in Chicago, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer 2013-08-09T20:44:12Z There are precedents for albums succeeding after a band has splintered. From the Civil Wars, an Aptly Named Album 2013-08-02T19:03:21Z The music was, it seemed, more premeditated in which parameter was varied at any moment — meditation or swing, openness or density, lyricism or hustle — but all the splintered elements cohered. Music Review: Wayne Shorter’s 80th Birthday and Legacy of Perpetual Flux 2013-06-30T21:30:21Z The 12 issues collected in this edition chronicle their struggle: some heroes die and change, certain relationships splinter and new allies are found. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Lost in Space 2011-07-01T17:15:34Z In order for complications and contradictions to deepen a narrative rather than splinter it, they need to be woven together with incisive, sustained analysis. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z He said the bar wasn’t sealed to be food-safe, let alone free of splinters. Why can’t new restaurants ever open on time? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The band folded warmly around the guitar on a ballad of long, arching sounds splintered by double-time bursts, after which McLaughlin – visibly relaxing – began effusively swapping fast phrases with his three partners. John McLaughlin ? review 2011-07-13T17:25:32Z This slim but forceful treatise begins with patriotic despair: Packer paints a picture of a deeply splintered America that he divides into four irreconcilable categories. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z She got herself a volunteer hobby that brought some order and connectivity to her isolated, splintering world. American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Split the stalks of lemongrass lengthways, discarding the tough, outer leaves, then bash them hard with a heavy weight, such as a rolling pin, to splinter them. Nigel Slater’s lemongrass recipes 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z In Act 2, everyone wore black or gray, and here Abraham largely obliterated individual excellence with nonstop unisons, sometimes splintered by dancers who periodically collapsed and eventually rejoined the group. 'Watershed' misses its moment to commemorate civil rights 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z If the wood is splintered, perhaps because a nail-on protector was once pried off carelessly, use wood filler and sand it smooth once it dries. What to do about floor protectors that won’t stay in place 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Clancy followed it up with Red Storm Rising and Patriot Games, which told of a fictional IRA splinter group that plots to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales. Obituary: Tom Clancy 2013-10-02T17:15:27Z As groups converge and splinter off, dancers roll to the floor, pop back up and support one another before being swept up in another wave of undulating motion. Dancing at Paul Taylor, a New Generation Finds Its Footing 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z For travelers, the camps offer convenient access to nature without an investment in equipment or the chores of firewood-gathering and the common camping hazards of splinters, sleeping in the rain and waking up cold. Glamping Slips Into the Mainstream 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “There’s a splinter of ice in his character,” his creator conceded. P. D. James, Novelist Known as ‘Queen of Crime,’ Dies at 94 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Hashimoto’s prints depict what appear to be tiny paper kites, dangling with string loose and knotted, tacked to a faded, splintering wood backdrop. Jacob Hashimoto's work takes flight at Mixografia 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z More important, they use the splintered music to convey a fractious but blessed interconnectedness that makes their retrospective coming apart all the more poignant. The Pain of Fame, With Sondheim, Warhol and Capote as Guides 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z On the sunny morning of November 20, 1820, the deafening crunch of splintering wood rang out across the waves churning thousands of miles off the western coast of South America. My ancestors, the cannibals: Whaling, human sacrifice and the true story of “Moby-Dick” 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Would she have been less dependent on the approval of viewers and critics and more aware of the positive effect her book was having on splintered psyches and girls with short bangs everywhere? Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Mr. Irwin speaks of subjects as diverse and interrelated as the pronunciation of “Godot,” Beckett’s Irishness, his “sensitivity to violence,” and the “mobility” of the pronouns he uses, turning self into splinters. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z From the shootings’ aftermath alone, the splintering took over. A Shooting In California, A Twitter Hashtag And The Chaos Of Chatter 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z A sense of families splintered into atoms — of siblings divided and parents forcibly separated from their children — pervades “The Night Alive.” Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z The bulk of the action takes place in Mexico, where assorted splinter groups wage their endless turf wars, and New York City, the central marketplace for heroin and every other drug. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Corgan was a stoop-shouldered suburban misfit from a splintered household, much like many in his audience, and “Siamese Dream” became a soundtrack for a significant portion of his generation. Smashing Pumpkins revisit breakthrough albums 2011-11-27T21:47:00Z He’s getting divorced, a common theme — splintered families litter this little landscape. Ripe for the political season, the Apple Family Cycle returns to Studio 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Stacks of fresh lumber sit steps away from wooden buildings being overtaken by nature, sedges and wildflowers poking out between splintered planks. In Alaska, Slowing Down to Take Things In 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The splintered, the fissile, the ruderal: these are the Ness's textures. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z But when one of the students comes down with mumps — and the county health department issues an edict demanding quarantine for all unvaccinated pupils — the once unified board starts to crack and splinter. Review: Opinions Collide in the Explosive Comedy ‘Eureka Day’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z But on Sunday, finally, the last semblance of order started to splinter and people took things into their own hands. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z And at a time when our attention is so easily splintered, she writes big, substantial, old-fashioned books that allow her characters room to breathe, change and grow into adulthood and beyond. Why Now May (Finally) Be Meg Wolitzer’s Moment 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z So the clothes are slightly Amish, and the meeting hall is borrowed from one used by a splinter Evangelical group here in Missoula. This Week in Fiction: Kevin Canty on Faith and Desire 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z In truth, it moves fluidly between the two, as solid rhythms splinter and abstract arrangements coalesce and crescendo. These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review 2013-06-06T21:30:01Z At the end, she tossed one of the plaster objects and watched it splinter. Valda Setterfield Joins Jonah Bokaer at Lightbox 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The two travel separately some 10 weeks of the year — she to audition students, he to accompany ABT on tour — meaning more splintering of the family. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z These stories are full of suffocating generosity, aggression so passive it’s like breathing splinters. Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z This idea — of an Italy splintered into thousands of quasi-independent regions, with the family as the only indivisible unit — is not a new one. Through Home Food, Being a Guest for Meals at Italian Homes 2010-04-10T02:26:00Z Mr. Frith sometimes strummed fast, harsh rhythm-guitar chords, as Mr. Cline enveloped him in noise or played splinters of lead guitar. Music Review: Fred Frith and Nels Cline Create New Soundscapes 2014-01-19T22:12:56Z You can get lost in the ensuing chaos, as the image splinters and scatters. Review: In ‘A Hard Day,’ Looney Tunes Meets Cops, Corpses and Crime 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z One without the other is simply a splinter and cardboard. How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z As broadcast ratings continue to splinter, this push to retain and engage the audience through cross-platform initiatives will only grow more intense. SXSW and the Future of TV: Welcome to the Era of Relationship Television 2012-03-12T15:15:05Z A meditation on power and powerlessness, “Crave” is about being trapped in the straitjacket of your own yearning body and the shards of your own splintered consciousness. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Plus, popular music covered all genres back then, as opposed to the dramatic splintering of audiences that followed. What's an oldie anymore, anyway? 2011-06-15T20:17:00Z The plot follows them, while also splintering into alternate realities dreamed up by the besieged mind of Bardem’s character. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Following’ and ‘The Roads Not Taken’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z A diagnosis of autism has the potential to ravage and splinter a family, can lead to heartbreak and poverty and chaos and grief, but we are none of us victims. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z After a couple of takes, the group splintered into twos and threes, the women throwing their hair back as they snapped photos and posted them on Instagram. Twerking Their Way to a Sweaty Workout Nirvana 2014-03-12T23:27:10Z Spin it in the wrong direction and the walls seem to splinter and disintegrate. An iPad Studio Tour Finds Bruce Nauman Pushing Limits 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The rocketing scherzo with its syncopations sounded like a natural fit for Carpenter’s aggressive virtuosity, but the finale splintered inconclusively, with soloist and orchestra failing to unite in a common point. Review | NSO gets off to an energetic, all-American start 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z There are stories that there were scratch marks on the inside of his coffin and splinters of wood under his fingernails. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z One shows text slides that distill history and current events — a story about Thelonious Monk, a comment on how political movements splinter, a reminder of the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., and so on. 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Veronica Tjioe’s “Dead Dog’s Bone” anatomizes a splintered family with such labored whimsy that their dying dog is a character. Review | In the comic ‘Resolving Hedda,’ the protagonist tries to actually live through the end of the play 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z She splinters her book into 26 chapters and each chapter into multiple scenes; she flits from character to character, event to event, often failing to build depth or sustain narrative drive. For Homeless Girl Scouts, It’s Not All Badges and Cookies 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z As evidenced on the panel discussion on “Outnumbered” Friday afternoon, opinion as to how reverential Fox News should be to the beleaguered Duggar clan is clearly beginning to splinter. Fox News’ circular firing squad: “Outnumbered” co-hosts bicker over company line on Duggar scandal 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z After all, this is the guy who is responsible for lyrics like “I walk on gilded splinters.” | Dr. John: Talking With Dr. John 2010-08-20T18:45:00Z The story is just too splintered, too multi-stranded – I haven't even begun to address what happens to Zhirem, which feels somewhat tacked on to the end – and ultimately it failed to hold my interest. World of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee 2010-08-27T10:05:00Z It splinters the self and impedes all efforts to maintain a coherent self. Review | You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll never understand her pain 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z His 1911 “Still Life With Gingerpot I” is more conventionally descriptive, yet the splintering lines indicate his embrace of Cubist structure, which sets him on the path to abstraction. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z If you didn’t realize that you stepped on a splinter, it could lead to a sore and an infection in your foot. Ever wondered about your sense of touch? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But their identities are more splintered than that. The TV Watch: ‘The Americans’ Returns, With New Secrets, on FX 2014-02-25T22:39:11Z This is how genres used to work: the bigger they got, the more likely they were to splinter ideologically and aesthetically. Run the Jewels, Still Insisting on Old Hip-Hop Values 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z But this flavour is dissipated by the puzzling "splintered how" and the seeming modernity of the climatic "my now". The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z Movements without a central core can devolve into chaos, with groups splintering off and adopting more extreme behaviors. Is it safe to travel to Hong Kong? I went to find out. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z She seems to want you to hear the splinters and rough ends in this music as coding for honesty, individuality and romantic stubbornness. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z So even the closest of friendships were splintered. We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?) 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z "It's a film about the evil from outside, the splinter of glass that enters a community and turns everything blue and fearful." Thomas Vinterberg – back in The Hunt 2012-11-22T20:00:01Z Throughout its almost 40, unceasingly fertile years of existence, this genre-bending troupe has taken theatergoers through twisting labyrinths of productions, in which reality and its representations are splintered by technology and irony. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But after a few unison iterations, the ensemble splinters, with individual voices trailing slightly behind, like in a glitchy video conference. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Leaving the home circle, the performers splintered into a duo and threesome, after which Adriene Barber began a long solo that was the work’s beating heart. Garth Fagan Dance delivers new spirit-lifting work 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z This time, as the speeches of local authorities proclaim unity and harmony, the editing splinters the action into a series of discrete, disjunctive shots. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z After the dancers break from the ring, they move more explosively before gradually splintering off to leave the stage for the balcony above. Review: Connecting Dance and Worship With Poetic Imagination 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s a democratized splintering of “America’s Got Talent,” inherently viral and refreshingly communal, that has turned everyday teen-agers into daytime-TV stars. The Beats Fuelling the Viral Dance Challenges 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z On the other end of the country’s hopelessly splintered political spectrum are those who join Trump in rebutting the idea, often with the caps lock on: “FAKE NEWS!” Was the 2016 Election a Game of ‘Russian Roulette’? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Pitches linger, bend, then splinter into skittish shards that break off and disappear. Review: ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ the Opera, Falls Short of Its Potential 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z That term — Asian American — encompasses dozens of distinct ethnic identities, which, in our labels-obsessed era, has splintered the community’s attitudes toward it. The term ‘Asian American’ was meant to create a collective identity. What does that mean in 2018? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z In an entry entitled “Matricide,” about the death of her mother, Daum compares her grandmother to “splintered bits of shrapnel.” Contemporary Womanhood, in Fact and Fiction 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z After 2000, two of the Guerrilla Girls brought a lawsuit against some of the others, eventually walking away with the copyrights to the group’s early posters, and the Guerrilla Girls splintered. An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Once the ruination starts, the newspapers are brutal, making Tree puns about splinters, sap, pulp, etc. Books of The Times: Golf Phenom, Not Tiger Woods. Sure. 2011-06-30T21:03:11Z He starts a fight with a department store mannequin that ends in tears and splinters. Dancing with the political stars: A deep analysis of the candidates’ usually terrible dance moves 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Memory can further splinter a sense of self, she says. Natalie Portman: ‘JFK was a great proponent of civil rights. Trump is taking us backwards’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Playing Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” he caressed and lingered over the melody before adding layer upon transformative layer of harmony, then shattering it into percussive splinters. Music Review: Herbie Hancock at Rose Theater 2012-03-11T22:05:23Z Into the afternoon, the schedule seemed to splinter. On the Runway Blog: Daily New York Fashion Week Dispatches: Day 1 2012-09-07T00:21:24Z It was implicit in the close-up photograph of a splinter in his finger, portentously titled “Material Interchange.” Dennis Oppenheim, a Pioneer in Earthworks and Conceptual Art, Dies at 72 2011-01-27T04:30:03Z Then she got even more daring, devising tracks that warp and splinter the beat, and the artier electronic-music world took notice. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The other exhibitions here strike a more sober and weighty note, though with some flaws: They are splintered among many buildings; there is no systematic narrative; older exhibitions mix with the new. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The protagonist dies about two-thirds of the way through the book, but the narrative keeps going, tracing the splintering of Keynes’s intellectual legacy and the neoliberal backlash. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z “No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world ...” I read Ishmael’s words as he throws all prejudice aside to befriend the tattooed pagan Queequeg. A whale of a time: a Moby-Dick marathon in Massachusetts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z How do you appeal to a broad audience that has splintered into mutually exclusive spheres of belief? Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Where Mr. Oliveira perceives deep and sometimes tragic continuities between antiquity and the present, Mr. Godard finds fragments, including splinters of the lost dreams of modernity alluded to in his film’s title. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z By part three in 2016, Civil War, Captain America refuses the secretary of state’s demand that the Avengers agree to UN oversight and splinters off with a bunch of rebel superheroes. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In the early 80s, hardcore – a faster, leaner, angrier splinter of punk rock – was flourishing in the US. Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock 2012-11-27T14:23:35Z There were American flags and splinters of historic furniture scattered with gloves and cigarette butts and the powdery residue left behind by fire extinguishers. The Capitol mob desecrated a historical workplace — and left behind some disturbing artifacts 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Leave it to Ms. Churchill to come up with a work that so ingeniously and exhaustively mirrors our age of the splintered attention span. Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z Artists across the Continent and Russia distorted or splintered the forms of reality, trying to get at something newer and deeper. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z The Spanish crown has been vanquished, but the unified South America he longed for has been splintered by intrigue and jealousy, assassinations and coups. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Her novel is a collagelike group portrait of a family splintered from the start, an attempt to isolate the mother, the father and the daughter and plot their points of intersection. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But the group splintered, only reforming in 2008 for their first live shows in 15 years. My Bloody Valentine release new album 2013-02-02T22:32:16Z The tough-cookie posturing of these women and Penny’s splintering confederacy of cronies are intensified when set against their leathery Nevada landscape of strip joints and trailer parks. Debut Novels About Families Fractured by Abuse, Displacement or Death 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Would he unite the masses or the already-divided population or continue to splinter apart? What's new on Netflix in January, from a "Ghost Bride" and RuPaul to BoJack's last ride 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z As their voices heated up, I slowly edged to my left, shuffling my feet until my splintered image disappeared from the screen. Puking in my wedding dress 2012-07-07T00:00:00Z I try, and fail, to push the Jaws theme music from my mind as two white bellies cruise through the splintered sunlight above. Diving with the shark attack survivor who filmed Jaws 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Because the bow of the Argo was fashioned from one of the talking oaks of Zeus, the splinter keeps a spark of its old power, a whisper of its original voice. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The cast of eight converge and splinter off while weaving in and out of patterns with canny efficiency. Review: L.A. Dance Project Celebrates Female Choreographers 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z She has a devoted barbarian horde that just wiped out the splinter group that tried to kill her. ‘Game of Thrones’: 8 Questions for the Finale 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z This is now a regular feature of a Walking Dead season, in which the group gets divided and each episode shows us one splinter of the whole. The Walking Dead: season six, episode six – Always Accountable 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Whatever metaphorical splinter was lodged under a character’s skin at the start is pretty much still there at the end, a constant reminder of past choices and roads taken, or not. ‘Bodies They Ritual’ Review: Plush Robes and Cults 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The operation rendered Mr. Molaison, who was then 27, almost completely incapable of forming new memories, and his remaining memories were fragmentary, a heap of splintered glass. ‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Rendered in watercolor and scattered to fill a whole wall, the splintered illustration toys elegantly with expectations. Review | In the galleries: Comic book artists show new dimensions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But the violent topography of “Number 134” reigns in the other large reliefs, one of which is a 15-by-60-foot sweep of plywood — pocked, splintered, seemingly burned here, bristling there, unexpectedly delicate elsewhere. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z Joining “Going Clear” is “Prophet’s Prey,” about a fundamentalist group that splintered from the Mormon Church. Sundance Film Festival 2015 Lineup: High-Profile Documentaries Among Premieres 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The two Howards are part of that apparatus, the meek Howard a paper-shuffler in the original world and the macho Howard a covert agent for the splinter world. Review: ‘Counterpart’ Gives Us J.K. Simmons, Times Two 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z We are very much with Okpokwasili as she retraces these steps through the Bronx streets and apartment buildings — but then, mysteriously, the story splinters and resplinters, until we’re no longer sure which girl is which. | A Bronx Schoolyard Rivalry, Told Through Dance 2014-01-15T23:24:40Z Rave culture went on to splinter into myriad factions of dance music that have been absorbed into mainstream pop and hip-hop. Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Commercials advertising families gathering together for the season can feel like a splinter in the eye for many, many people. It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The scene began to splinter in the 1960s as the area faced the onslaught of urban renewal, and Ms. Wilson moved a few subway stops north, to a loft on Canal Street. Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z I was 8 when my older brother and I climbed the wooden stairs to our treehouse, careful to avoid the places that gave splinters. Tiny Love Stories: ‘With You, I Can Be a New Person’ 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But it's still culturally sensitive enough to avoid identifying any real-life faction as the villains: Yune's terrorist isn't affiliated to the North Korean government, but to a splinter group. US presidents on film: after the fall 2013-04-10T08:44:51Z Even if the tunes’ disconnected nature inevitably splinters any overarching message, the finale, “Hear My Song,” hammers home the timely notion of enduring through hardship and emerging stronger. Review | Monumental Theatre’s ‘Songs for a New World’ vividly imagines a better tomorrow 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z There, just below platform level on the 115-year-old structure, sunbeams reached the street through splinters of badly decayed timbers and wooden ties that support and secure the steel railroad tracks. City plans rehab of Loop elevated track 2012-04-09T10:34:00Z The way the shutters in her room at the grand Hotel Nacional de Cuba—designed only a few years earlier by the venerable New York firm McKim, Mead & White—splintered the hot golden sunlight. A Design Lover's Guide To Cuba 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The double album that followed in late November — officially titled “The Beatles,” but forever referred to as the “White Album” — brought together splintered fragments of the group’s experiences. In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z When the group begins to splinter, RZA tells Divine to let everyone out of their contracts, essentially collapsing the company. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The first essentially replicated Welles’s edited version of the party sequence, although the style was a bit less splintered and frenetic. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Because the wood is splintering and moving up and down, there is probably not a clean break. What to do about splitting floorboards in an old home 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Pure hues of the spectrum splinter and pool across the page with lavish intensity. Ellen Carey's photograms turn plain paper into a topographic head trip 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z His face boils red as he strains, the wood creaks and splinters, the hinges groan and finally pop off. ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Gives Us the Jerks We Deserve 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z As a point of comparison, Dorn mentioned another director who is known for innovative editing: Paul Greengrass, who shook up the Jason Bourne series with splintered perspectives. The Technical Stars Who Help Pull Off a Christopher Nolan Narrative 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z By the early 1970s, however, with football "hooliganism" a fact of British life, mod culture had splintered into its skinhead offshoot, which was often seen as National Front fodder. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-04-07T07:00:01Z Cohorts of ensemble dancers form enigmatic, splintering clusters. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z The show is especially inventive in seeming to freeze and splinter to time to delay revelations and to suggest what's going in the heads of characters under the starter gun. ArtsBeat: Running in Circles: 'Chariots of Fire' in London 2012-06-28T14:59:50Z Christopher Ryan Grant appropriately chews the scenery and spits out the splinters as Bottom, a blustering contractor who can’t even pronounce the name of the character he’s meant to play. Review: A ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ That’s More Speedy Than Dreamy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z That’s all good, but it also means that we’re at increased risk for summer bummers such as splinters, sprains and burns. Why you shouldn’t soak a splinter, and other ways first aid has changed 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Society is, it’s obvious, but is so splintered and so split. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z It ends in 1990 with their marriage splintering on the rocks of infidelity, insecurity and emotional deprivation. ‘The Crown’: What to Read and Watch About Diana 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z He then brushed three big dollops of acrylic paint — pale yellow, baby blue and red — over the splintered remains. At Auction, Unknown Warhol Sculpture That Was Gift to Boyfriend 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z After all, this is the guy who is responsible for lyrics like "I walk on gilded splinters." New Orleans icon Dr. John comes to Seattle's Jazz Alley Sept. 7-12 2010-09-01T22:30:00Z The fairy tale concerns a mirror that reflects only the world at its worst and, once shattered, shoots dangerous splinters. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He begins the first chapter by describing Ravel’s “La Valse,” in which a Viennese waltz spins toward chaos and splinters apart. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z As his power unravels, his speech begins to splinter: he stammers over some words, repeats others as if gearing himself up, and falters as he searches for the next phrase. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z In “Doctor Strange,” the director Scott Derrickson and his crew push the medium’s plasticity further, creating spaces that bend, splinter and multiply. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z I’ve lived alone in many apartments in the past decade, from a tiny, splintering studio in Iowa crawling with millipedes to a massive, cheap prewar in Kentucky that leaked each time it rained. The Loneliness of Longing for Other People’s Apartments 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z They finally did that sale and splintered off Fox News. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z At a quick glance, the large, mirrored 1968 glinting in the entrance hall of a 19th-century London townhouse could be mistaken for a party decoration, carelessly cracked and splintered, from a New Year’s Eve revel. Art Shines in a François Catroux–Designed Residence 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Attacks by nationalist splinter groups trying to end British control are at their highest level since a 1998 peace agreement largely ended three decades of conflict that cost more than 3,600 lives. Security high as Prince William and Kate in Belfast 2011-03-08T14:02:22Z While one marriage splinters, Alec Hardy tries to pick up the pieces of his own. 'Broadchurch' Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Deep Breaths 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The work “is not pleasant,” he wrote, “but it sticks like a splinter in the mind.” 2010-01-15T06:00:00Z Fidgety stirrings in the violin hovered over plush orchestra chords, until those chords splintered into clusters of piercing high tones. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Afterward, we drove back down the hardpan beach in the gray, splintered shards of the Pacific and onto Highway 101. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z If our son says, “Daddy nearly killed me when he took that splinter out”, we say, “Oh, it couldn’t have been that bad”, but we should say, “That sounds as if it really hurt.” How to be a good listener: the experts' guide 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Then they jog, clumping, splintering off and clumping again. Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer and Group at Danspace Project 2013-01-26T00:51:55Z A little piece of paper had changed us from fugitive citizens into refugees abroad, meeting one another in the winds of fear, splintered and dispersed in frosty cities.” Middle East: Iraqi Artists, Actors and Designers Try to Build New Lives in Jordan 2011-03-23T19:29:27Z In 1990 protesters threw off the yoke of a splintering Soviet Union. Next Stop: In Mongolia, the Skyline by the Steppes 2013-08-02T16:45:36Z Through the months of development, I was keeping notes of images, phrases and other splinters of found language; and Arnie was jotting down shards of melodies and half-heard harmonies. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z But before the wars and the splintering, there was a grander future in view, molded in glass and concrete. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z I was engaged in a life of hiding; that existence splintered me. I was a secret hair puller 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Punk and post-punk would splinter into a variety of subsets and genres in the coming years, but the foundation for this experimentation emerged in 1977. Beyond “The Joshua Tree”: Here are 10 more big music milestones to celebrate in 2017 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z November’s Ebony magazine featured a splintered family portrait from “The Cosby Show” and a cover story that grappled with the sitcom’s legacy. For some black women, the Cosby indictment is painfully complex 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The mirror splinters have always suggested psychological trauma; here, Kay’s condition is an actual mental illness. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Krajewski tapes the brush handles so they don’t splinter in Metro’s mouth. Currents: Q&A: If Pollock Could Whinny 2014-04-30T22:27:18Z Hip-hop is now almost fully decentralized; the genre is splintered sonically and thematically. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Masks made a brief appearance until, in the end, the dancers formed a circle before splintering offstage in two lines. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Numtot’s microcommunities have created about 100 splinter groups, which define themselves in relation to — and sometimes in opposition to — the parent group. Can Society Scale? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But in its way, “Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune” is completely true to everyday 21st-century experience: ubiquitous and intrusive technology, splintered attention spans, mediated presences and onslaughts of random information. Justin Vernon Joins Swamp Dogg and Big Red Machine to Wrestle With Love and Death 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In the auction four clubs was a splinter bid, showing interest in six hearts even though South was known to have a weak hand with six-plus hearts. Bridge: From the Lederer Memorial, a Look at a Long-Card Oddity 2011-01-19T23:16:42Z The band was playing at full steam, the cake was about to be cut, and my attention was fabulously splintered. I’m Getting Married, Mom. Please Cry. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z It gets sprinkled invisibly on a floundering, splintered team, which overnight coalesces into an efficient machine. A Nonfan?s Guide to the Key to the Super Bowl 2012-02-02T23:28:04Z This historical novel exploring the life of Jacob Frank, the Polish leader of a heretical Jewish splinter group that converted to Islam and then Catholicism, ranges nomadically across the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires. Olga Tokarczuk’s Book ‘Flights’ Is Taking Off 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The work consists of gestures deliberately assembled to negate one another so that sounds always work in opposition: Milky meets tangy, dull answers sharp; a unison statement is left to splinter. Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble Brings Out Mahler’s Inventive Side 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Taking up the mantle of her beheaded husband — a quest to unify the region's splintering Kyrgyz factions — the woman presaged as a child to become a great leader emerged as an inspiring local folk hero. 'Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains' a stirring historical epic 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Okuno dishes out the heebie-jeebies with ruthless precision — watching is like being on a roller-coaster incline and seeing the tracks ahead splinter. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The lyrics, from a pitch-shifting Moor Mother and a calm, deliberate Billy Woods, are splintered but combative: “They don’t want me to shine ’cause I remind them of the fight,” Moor Mother intones. Mariah Carey Calls for Action, and 12 More New Songs 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Actual races tend to be covered from fairly generic angles or splintered into several shots. ‘On Any Sunday, the Next Chapter,’ a Sequel by Dana Brown 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Right now they are splintered in a bunch of groups.” Why Rick Perry left the race 2012-01-19T20:53:00Z During August’s event, a splinter group of protesters handed out leaflets warning that city officials and businesses were trying to usurp Art Murmur and turn it into “a tool to further their agenda of gentrification.” Oakland Journal: Oakland Art Murmur Outgrows Its Name 2012-10-11T04:27:45Z After a day of work in nearby tobacco fields, Little Dog’s hands are “so thick and black with sap, dirt, pebbles and splinters, they resembled the bottom of a pan of burned rice.” ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ Captures a Young Immigrant’s Troubles and Ecstasies 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z It was also the last piece of true event television in an age where our viewing is increasingly splintered by the rise of streaming. Game of Thrones: how it dominated the decade – then lost its way 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z If people in rehab programs only focus on their dependencies, they are only scraping the surface of the problem, painting over a broken-down foundation without fixing the splintering wood beneath, Hankel explained. 'I was fresh meat': how AA meetings push some women into harmful dating 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z A tart of white onion, bacon and asparagus splintered into shrapnel-like bits when prodded with a fork, but the savory smoky meat, sweet onion crust and crunchy asparagus merged perfectly when reunited in the mouth. Choice Tables: Lisbon?s Culinary Golden Age? 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z One night, the maid had found little splinters of metal in the brim of his hat, and exclaimed: "Ah, Monsieur, you didn't come home in the car!" Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z That summer, as my country splintered over whether an unarmed black teen-ager deserved to die, something shifted inside me. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z To my amazement and relief, the violin and bow were unharmed, although threatened by splinters of the wooden box around the scroll of the violin. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z While deep in The Guermantes Way, didn’t I sometimes want to choke Proust for his tedious attention to some ridiculously small splinter of life? All writers should read Robert McKee 2013-04-10T20:47:00Z Bravo and Harris keep things moving briskly, orchestrating plot turns and digressions in a way that both captures the stop-and-go rhythms of Zola’s experience and replicates the syncopated, splintered attention of Twitter itself. ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her! 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Within a few years, the group began to splinter. Ian McLagan, inventive keyboardist with Faces and Rolling Stones, dies at 69 They went into a splinter universe where 98 percent of the population had mysteriously disappeared, and, rather than grieving, they were joyous for having survived. How 'The Leftovers' Finale Cemented the Show as a Classic Drama 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z They bounce off each other, refract and splinter into a million pieces before being reassembled. Crave/Illusions ? review 2012-05-18T14:52:40Z But in a country that was already splintered over issues of race and policing, the moral, social and legislative gravity of the film is made more explicit. 'We didn't ask permission': behind an explosive NYPD documentary 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Our body politic is splintering and fragmenting, and it is reflected in our vaccination rates. America's vaccination crisis is a symptom of our broken society | Meghan O'Rourke 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Léa Seydoux gives a very delicate performance as a young woman who is involved with two splintering families. In "One Fine Morning" Léa Seydoux experiences the exquisite heartbreak and passion of everyday life 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Not that his life entirely consists of splintering hotel doors and chatting to princesses. Wii U – Shigeru Miyamoto gives us a tour of Nintendo's new console 2012-11-23T12:00:00Z The Caesar looks like a grade-school art project, a haystack of kale topped with splinters of industrial cheese and fenced in with slices of chicken that taste like they emerged from a freezer bag. Review | Now you can eat at the Capitol just like a U.S. representative: Badly 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The Young Lords Party was already beginning to narrow along hard ideological lines and splinter into competitive factions. When the Young Lords Strove to Change New York 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s impossible in a world of increasingly splintered style tribes. At Marc Jacobs: New York Fashion Week’s Haunted Ending 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He describes postwar Berlin as a "mirror image of the splintered whole … divided fractiously … a little smackerel of it even going to French …" with a Nabokovian playfulness. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z You can also score the chocolate, marking out servings, before you chill it to prevent the chocolate splintering when you cut the shortbread. Ruby Tandoh’s nostalgic chocolate-bar bake recipes | Ruby Bakes 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z But that star-making monolith has splintered into a pluralism of blogs, social media and niche cable outlets. In the Woman?s Movement, Who Will Replace Gloria Steinem? 2012-03-17T00:33:53Z Cole’s book seems to ask, finally, what if we took Calvin’s comment about the splinters of the True Cross not as an indictment of fraudulent religious souvenirs but somehow as a literal fact? Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z A gesture would begin with clanking clusters and splintering lines, then trail off into delicate curlicues with crucial lingering notes . Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The ballet begins with a grand promenade for the two sets of dancers and then splinters off. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z “He says all kinds of nice things that I don’t recognize. Splitting, splintering. Evidently my pictures are that way, but I didn’t think, ‘I want to take a splintering picture.’ Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Besides the flattened villages and towns, rolling farmland, forests and broad river valleys became wastelands of mud and splintered trees. How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z In “Strong Island,” Yance Ford focuses tightly on the lead-up to and aftermath of his brother’s death, which devastated and splintered their family. Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z "Earl shifted his weight, and the creases in his body stocking changed, splintering outward like something being broken." The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Week two: dialogue 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z The average relic, whether a splinter from the True Cross or a chip of a saint’s skull, was nothing to look it, even hard to see. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z There are no braided points of view here, no too-pretty words, no splintered syntax. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z In her nimble movement phrases, group sections splinter into duets and blossom again in new formations. Dance Review: Stripes of Intimacy Several Layers Over 2010-11-19T06:30:00Z The clashing and splintering of his interests created a modern kind of complexity. Kanye West’s True Salvation on “Jesus Is King” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the sudden splintering of the glass that created the drama, it was what came before. Review: Rocío Molina, Offering Dances of Wine and Glasses 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The others had been reduced to a jumble of splintered plywood, crumpled appliances and twisted strips of pink insulation. Harrisburg aftermath: 1 street, 5 deaths 2012-03-02T03:40:00Z This was no tiny splinter group of crackpots, but rather a highly organized international group that ran for almost 50 years with some 10,000 live-in disciples in 170 countries. Review | Faith Jones’s memoir of living in cult — and leaving it — is a powerful tale of resilience 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z “The next thing, I had a whole line of them”; men queueing up to have their phantom splinters removed. Health warning: why the sexy nurse stereotype is no laughing matter 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Both stylistically and thematically, “Caligari” imagined the splintering of the postwar German psyche, presenting a sense that reality itself had been destabilizing, and was reconstituting itself in jagged lines and oblique curlicues. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “Stories graves,” he scolds in the splintered grammar that characterizes many of the tales in this volume. John Edgar Wideman’s Art of Storytelling 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Though the vast audience is splintered, its diversifying members are highly invested — they don't want to be cut off mid-thought. For 'The Killing,' closure is less than thrilling 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z One without the other is simply a splinter and cardboard. How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Then the group began to splinter, and members relocated around the world. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Life was no longer a smooth ride through time, but could be examined as splintered moments. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The very best bits do both at once, splintering, for example, on Adam's imperfect relationship with the Spanish language. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-12T07:07:54Z They see themselves as guardians of Italian cuisine as it splinters to adapt to tastes abroad. Guarding the Sanctity of Italian Food, One Meal at a Time 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “After 43 years and the finish line clearly in sight, it is hard to escape the conclusion that for the five of us to splinter apart now would be the wrong thing,” he wrote. Lindsey Buckingham sues Fleetwood Mac after being axed from tour 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Sexism hasn’t been vanquished, obviously, but it has splintered into more subtle, ambiguous channels. | Television: ?Pan Am,? ?Playboy Club? and ?Whitney? New on TV 2011-09-16T15:26:17Z Surely years of boycott and splintering and moratoria flouting would have torn off the fig leaf of togetherness. Divine dispatches: a religion roundup 2011-01-26T15:30:00Z With Ms. Yano on piano, they performed a playfully splintered version of the Gershwins’ “Our Love Is Here to Stay.” Music Review: Allies in Improvisation and in a Cause 2011-03-28T23:31:42Z With luck and work, scholars retrieve a few splinters, put them in a guessed-at order and turn on some lights. Art Review: The Spirit of Xanadu, Morphing Across Borders 2010-09-30T21:52:00Z His endgame is not that of a gangster facing down the law but, like Don, of a man finding integrity in his splintered identity. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z For most of 2016, I, too, wanted to hear things that felt new and challenging and egregiously inventive, in step with the splintering weirdness of the way we live right now. Three Songs That Pushed Me Forward in 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Works like “Oh Momma Oh Poppa” from 2002 are studies in grief, shock and unmitigated viciousness, softened yet emotionally intensified by their extraordinary play of dark colors splintered by singing hues. The Outsider Fair Once More Confirms That Art Is Everywhere 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Like her parents Ellen decided to become an actor, but the tide only began to turn for the splintered family in 1972 when Will Geer got a call from the producer of the Waltons. Hounded out of Hollywood: Topanga film festival and the legacy of Will Geer 2012-08-08T16:42:38Z A splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban said it killed Sabri because he was a "blasphemer." Sufi singer shot dead by extremists in Pakistan 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z She describes herself as hugely curious about the world, and this comes out in her splintered, fervent passions. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z It examines our relation to technology as well as our splintering relation to each other. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z According to Variety, however, Screening Room is “close to a deal” with the chain AMC, which would splinter multiplex resistance. Hollywood gathering puts focus on Sean Parker's home cinema proposal 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z And it was not yet freighted by spinoff projects, a splintered fan culture, and a mythology that’s complicated by the incompatible, sometimes contradictory visions of multiple film-makers and a corporate parent fussing over its investment. The Empire Strikes Back at 40: did the Star Wars saga peak too early? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z For the 15-minute flight, I sat on a benchlike seat with a view of the sky splintered by a tall woman. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It starts with just one woman and a taut drumming line of bongo drums, but already the choreography is full of incident – splinters, crumples and arcs of movement combine with flashing unpredictability. Rosas & Ictus: Drumming – review 2013-06-26T17:09:43Z The drive cuts through pastures dotted with cows and horses and weather-beaten barns, some abandoned and left to splinter. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z Carter traces the splintering of Keynes’s intellectual legacy and the neoliberal backlash of Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s no accident that all of this started on YouTube in 2007 — at a moment when, and in a place where, human experience was beginning very visibly to splinter. Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z This was also the last era before the internet and social media splintered American news consumption habits, meaning there was still a recognizable institutional news voice that made sense to parody. 2004: When Fake News Was Cool 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z As an example of how low he could go, he describes being shown a hotel room with the furniture in splinters, asking who did the damage and being told that the rampage had been his. Elton John Puts Down in Words How Wonderful (and Weird) Life Has Been 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z I’m not sure there’s another American band quite as adept at reflecting a certain kind of masculine rage—a deep and splintering fear of helplessness. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In 2015, he is shaky and guarded, his memories splintered by dementia, as he tries to recall the case, and what may have gone wrong, for a “Making a Murderer”-style documentary. Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Home is where I take up such a tiny portion of the memory foam; home is a splintered word. David Foster Wallace memoir gathers acclaim 2013-06-05T14:28:41Z Later, while walking point on a night patrol through a vineyard, Arness walked into a German machine-gun nest and rounds severely splintered the bones in his lower right leg. 'Gunsmoke' actor James Arness dies at 88 2011-06-03T17:00:00Z A Colombian family splintered by borders tells its five-voiced story, as one daughter tries desperately to escape a correctional facility. 10 books to read in March 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z North’s four-diamond bid was a splinter, showing shortage in diamonds and heart support. Bridge: A Deal From a Vanderbilt Knockout Teams Match 2014-04-25T21:33:37Z Between these two poles arose splinter groups with conflicting agendas. In ‘Black Power!,’ Art’s Political Punch and Populist Reach 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s full of digitally splintered chipmunk voices and bursts of drum sounds — like blasts of a confetti cannon — with a galloping beat and that reassuring refrain, “I’ll be alright.” New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z “And then everybody splinters off and then there’s variations of that, influences from that, and then they all do their new thing.” How ‘Adventure Time’ Became a Talent Factory for a Generation of Animators 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Sunlight splinters through the canopy and golden-hued chickens and roosters scurry up from a stream bed. On Maui, seeking out the hidden wows of wild Hawaii 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Davis’s splintered phrases and fierce shrieks are recognizably descended from his earlier style, but the very metal of his trumpet seemed hotter, the sound reflected the glint of the flame. Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The set, by Sibyl Wickersheimer, is a loose scaffold of plastic sheeting, plywood pallets and splintered Sheetrock. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z As the gang splintered around him — often because of him — he felt confident pushing back at members he deemed disloyal. Tekashi69 Courted Gang Life. Then Reality Became Too Real. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The al Qaeda splinter group's changing name — Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, IS — seems about the only aspect of the terrorist organization that hasn't been branded as carefully as a new Apple product. Islamic State's soft weapon of choice: social media 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The climactic frame of that story, with a wincing truck-face lying splintered on the ground, is one of the most disturbing in children's literature. The tyrannical world of Thomas the Tank Engine 2012-07-04T10:06:59Z And then, suddenly, the song turns ecstatic: An orchestra appears, her voice multiplies, the lyrics splinter from sentences to incantations: “transcend!” With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It was possibly a measure of the crowd’s size that even this splinter group felt large enough to qualify as the main march, the big mass. Women's March Los Angeles demonstrates city planning's need for 'radical flatness' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z But over all, the mini-series suffers from defensive storytelling; it’s a narrative driven in splintered directions less by inspiration than by avoidance. Television Review: ?Titanic,? a Mini-Series, Starts on Saturday on ABC 2012-04-13T22:58:29Z A smartly dark take on the sunny Oz soap opera, it chronicles how friendships splinter after a guest slaps someone else's child at a suburban barbecue. Which books are on your summer holiday reading list? 2010-07-22T15:28:00Z Post-internet and cable television, the splintering of cultural consumption is itself the mass activity. Harry Potter and the Deadly Dullards 2011-07-23T23:06:50Z |
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