| Police seemed to be saying that Shannan Gilbert had died because her soul had been rent asunder by a life in the streets. |
| Religion, the force that can bind a family together against an uncertain world, can also rip it asunder. |
| Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet. |
| The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory. |
| As a wise man once said, what God hath woven together, even multiple regression analysis cannot tear asunder. |
| A curtain had fallen, my holy of holies was rent asunder, and new gods had to be installed. |
