Crossword clues for smithereens
smithereens
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smithereens \Smith`er*eens"\ (sm[i^][th]`[~e]r*[=e]nz"), n. pl.
Fragments; atoms; smithers. [Colloq.]
--W. Black.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small fragments," 1810, smiddereens, from Irish smidirin, diminutive of smiodar "fragment," perhaps with diminutive ending as in Colleen.
Wiktionary
n. Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.
WordNet
n. a collection of small fragments considered as a whole; "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smitereens"
Wikipedia
Smithereens may refer to:
- Smithereens (film), a 1982 film by Susan Seidelman
- The Smithereens, a rock band from New Jersey
- Smithereens (book) a book by Shaun Micallef
- Natives of Smithers, a town in Canada
- Smithereens (Nick Harper album), 1998
- Smithereens (Elin Sigvardsson album), an album by Elin Sigvardsson
Smithereens is a 2004 book by the Australian author and comedian Shaun Micallef of essays, plays, poems and sketches. Some articles were reprinted from The Age.
Category:2004 books Category:Comedy books Category:Comedy plays
Smithereens is a 1982 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rinn, and punk rock icon Richard Hell. The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the punk subculture, only to find that it's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in order to pay her way across country, she engages in a number of parasitic relationships, shifting her allegiances to new "friends" in an ongoing effort to ultimately endear herself to someone who will finance her desired lifestyle.
Smithereens marked the debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner ( Philadelphia) and features a score by The Feelies. It was the first American independent film invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Smithereens is a precursor to Seidelman's next film Desperately Seeking Susan and both films share similar themes of female identity and self-reinvention.
Smithereens is a 1998 album from UK singer-songwriter Nick Harper. It was produced by Glenn Tilbrook of the band Squeeze and released on Tilbrook's own Quixotic label; he also sang co-lead vocals (with Harper) on the acoustic version of "Smithereens" which ends the album.
Usage examples of "smithereens".
I flew out of bed, rushed to the window, and threw the curtains open in time to see Morty Beyers smash the alarm to smithereens with his gun butt.
But when real Spirit descends, it blasts to smithereens the mother archetype, the father archetype, and every other itty bitty finite archetypeit is coming from the other direction with the force of infinity, and not some merely past and finite evolutionary habit.
Miss Hathaway to smithereens along with Hank Bass and the rest of his gang.
The garage had been blown to smithereens, and the remaining parts had rained down over a three-house area.
Consequently, although the west wall shook and the upper third of the drawbridge was blown to smithereens, the rest of the structure survived the first hit.
The largest naval force the Chinese could handle as a unit had been knocked to smithereens by two small British warships.
Everybody Do Everything Craze that blew this town to smithereens and glued it back again.
His leg doubled under him when he landed and it musta broke to smithereens.
But when real Spirit descends, it blasts to smithereens the mother archetype, the father archetype, and every other itty bitty finite archetypeit is coming from the other direction with the force of infinity, and not some merely past and finite evolutionary habit.
I proceeded to smash materialism, rationalism, and all the philosophy of Tyndall, Helmholtz, Darwin and the rest of the 1860 people into smithereens.
The Japs did a hell of a job blowing those to smithereens on the ground.
Miracle Valley project, which I stand to come out of sitting very pretty, unless the whole ball of wax gets blown to smithereens by a bunch of trigger-happy Chicanes or cops or whatever.
He felt glad that Father Quixote had not seen her in that state, half on her side against the wall, the windscreen in smithereens, one door wrenched off its hinges, the other caved in, her tyres flattened by the bullets of the Guardia: there was no more of a future for Rocinante than for Father Quixote.
Okay, so I live behind a six-foot-high wall in an adobe mansion surrounded by spruce trees, and I got more land than twenty of those poor bastards put together, but I been dealing with them for years, I been selling and buying their land, and right now I'm tied heavily into Ladd Devine's Miracle Valley project, which I stand to come out of sitting very pretty, unless the whole ball of wax gets blown to smithereens by a bunch of trigger-happy Chicanes or cops or whatever.
On the lip of metal that had protected the timer from being blown to smithereens was a faint crescent of ridge endings, crossings, and bifurcations.