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1849 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 387 The inspiration of this tribe of novelists was love and weak tea; the soul-shattering period of courtship was their field of action.

1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea II. xxv. 5 The result is soul-shattering.

1995 City Paper (Baltimore) 27 Sept. 9/2 Like many art forms, gangster rap is sometimes brilliant and soul-shattering and, most often, banal and offensive.