Russell Smith

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

Canadian Novelist

Monica Crowley

Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying.

American Journalist

Smithereens implies something was destroyed very thoroughly, often violently.

Intensity of Destruction

Refers to pieces so small that they may be too numerous to count easily.

Emphasis on Smallness

Often used to describe unfortunate events, rarely positive ones.

Usually Negative

 trying to kill a bat and he killed the bat and he broke the violin to smithereens and Audubon sort of kicked him out never wrote much about him after that but rafinesque was a remarkable character he was eccentric true he read

Palenque and the Ancient...

 waking up with a whole new identity. Instead of being the resilience expert, suddenly, I'm the grieving mother. Waking up not knowing who I am, trying to wrap my head around unthinkable news, my world smashed to smithereens.

3 secrets of resilient...

 so we wouldn’t want to fully cover it with a sphere. Even if we did, the plasma jets that shoot from the poles of many supermassive black holes would blow any structure in their way to smithereens.