Sentence examples for Fragmentary knowledge from inspiring English sources

Characters only have a fragmentary knowledge of the events, and that makes things more interesting and exciting.

One factor that may limit the exploitation of this potential is the still rather fragmentary knowledge of basic biological and endocrine traits of zebrafish.

Mr. Geragos said, based on his fragmentary knowledge of the identity of Mr. Jackson's accuser and the accuser's account, "I'm not so sure there's even going to be a charging document".

Understanding and assessing the weight of all of these factors on backscatter is a difficult task, due to the spatially limited and fragmentary knowledge of the seabed from of direct observations (e.g. grab samples, cores, videos).

In John Seabrook's "Fragmentary Knowledge," an account of how an early-Byzantine sundial calendar came to London's Science Museum indicates that the man who brought it to the museum met with Michael Wright, a curator of mechanical engineering there; in fact, it was another member of the museum staff, J. V. Field, who met with the man and later showed the instrument to Wright.

They possess the unsettling intensity of Benjy's interior monologue in Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury," immersing the reader in the slip-sliding world of a child's imagination, a world at once egocentric and rudderless, a world of bright, shimmering sensations and fragmentary knowledge.

We learn again and again how fragmentary our knowledge is, how much interpretation has changed, how new techniques are used, how much more is yet to be discovered.

I close by intimating the creative potential entailed in Xu Shen's recasting of fragmentary diachronic knowledge as a comprehensive synchronic system.

These findings further illustrate how fragmentary our knowledge still is in respect to the mechanisms regulating Gab phosphorylation.

While no single rodent model can address all aspects of human breast cancer, different experimental models provide complementary findings to decipher the heterogeneity of established but fragmentary pathophysiological knowledge currently available.

More likely newly identified competencies will add new dimensionality to the traditional ones, as has happened when print literacy was expanded to "multiliteracy" and recently to "transliteracy," which includes not only ability to utilize diverse information sources but to synthesize coherent knowledge from fragmentary information thus obtained (Liu [2012]; Scardamalia & Bereiter in press-a).