fragment, glassy, A basalt statue

Omran's bare feet barely reach the edge of the chair as he sits alone in the back of the ambulance. The five-year-old’s eyes are glassy with shock and he seems hardly aware of the blood seeping from a wound in his forehead. The little Syrian boy was one of five children injured in Aleppo.

This picture of a wounded Syrian boy captures fragment of Aleppo horrors

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fragment

NOUN

Pronunciation: /ˈfraɡm(ə)nt/ 

1A small part broken off or separated from something:small fragments of pottery

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1.1An isolated or incomplete part of something:Nathan remembered fragments of the conversation

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VERB

Pronunciation: /fraɡˈmɛnt/ 

Break or cause to break into fragments:[NO OBJECT]: Lough Erne fragmented into a series of lakes[WITH OBJECT]: management has tighter control through fragmenting the tasks

glassy 

Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɑːsi/ 

ADJECTIVE (glassier, glassiest)

1Of or resembling glass.

1.1Having the physical properties of glass; vitreous:glassy lavas

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1.2(Of water) having a smooth surface:the glassy grey surface of the lake

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1.3(Of sound) resembling the sharp noise made when glass is struck:a glassy clink

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2(Of a person’s eyes or expression) showing no interest or animation:some stare straight ahead with glassy eyesshe’d got that glassy look

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NOUN

(also glassie)dialect A glass marble.

ba·salt (bə-sôlt', bā'sôlt')
n. 玄武岩

1. A hard, dense, dark volcanic rock composed chiefly of plagioclase, pyroxene, and olivine, and often having a glassy appearance.
2. A kind of hard unglazed pottery.

[Latin basaltēs, alteration of basanītēs, touchstone, from Greek basanītēs (lithos), from basanos, of Egyptian origin.]Visitors marvel at a Moai statue weighing 6 tons at the Marunouchi Building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday. It took more than a month to transport the 3-meter carving, called "Moai of Peace," by ship from Chile's Easter Island. The basalt statue was completed in 1992, after which islanders infused it with "manna" (spiritual power) through a religious ceremony. (YUKO YAMADA/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)