Sentences with phrase «shattered by the discovery»

But after having some of their preconceptions shattered by the discovery of Jupiter - size planets orbiting their stars in less than two days, planet hunters are no longer so confident of the others.

The feature film adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre production documents the events that shook Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.

The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head.

Not exact matches

This was one of the earth - shattering discoveries in philosophy of the last century, arrived at primarily by a logician named Kurt Gödel.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

Inspired by the discovery of glass shards in his home after hurricane Andrew in 1992, Daniel Arsham created sculptures of shattered glass.