0 extremely surprising and important, often changing the way you think about something: --
world-shattering news
I do not believe that it is of such world-shattering importance or that it will necessarily carry out the purposes which its sponsors hope it will achieve.
We are not discussing a world-shattering matter.
All too often, man has considered peace in a negative light, defining it as the absence of war, an interlude between battles, a hiatus in the cycle of world-shattering events.
This is really a world-shattering moment, and it is superb to be able to speak in a debate such as this when one begins one's political speech-making.
Therefore, it should be accepted that the amount that will be saved by the change may not be quite the world-shattering amount that it appears to be on first acquaintance.
It is only world-shattering for the judges and magistrates who consider the matter.
One would think that our request was world-shattering.
So to the parent it becomes an event of world-shattering importance.
