The illusion of suspended time shattered.

The illusion shattered when Vlad suddenly teetered and fell, amid tables and chairs.

He had worked too hard teaching new recruits the necessity of main- taining that illusion to shatter it himself.

The illusion was shattered by a rippling series of explosions, like a giant striking stones together, from somewhere deep within the thing.

An illusion shattered if she looked too close.

Startled by the emotion, she glanced into his face, and the illusion shattered.

The illusion of capability that rode on his postworkout endorphins shattered all too easily.

Lawson cleared his throat and Robin looked up, the illusion shattered as his own mannerisms superimposed themselves on the fraternal resemblance.

One romantic illusion after another shattered into slivers on the cold road.

There were many of us who hardly liked him because - well, it was because his tricks and illusions sometimes shattered us completely.