Sentence examples for coherent chronology from inspiring English sources

The movie presents itself as a history of burlesque, but you would be hard pressed to find a coherent chronology here.

His stepdaughter, Jody Revenson, has been organizing his studio for the past two years, doing battle with his pack-rat tendencies and coaxing a coherent chronology from piles of sketches, tracing paper and scattered freelance assignments, like the animal posters Mr. Jaffee did in the late 1960s for the typesetting company Inforex.

They question the value of the Anthropocene for their science, which seeks to draw coherent chronologies out of sedimentary rocks.

A guide to the causes, conduct and consequences, deftly woven by Purdum into a coherent narrative; with a chronology since 9/11/01.

Mr. Mading: "He'd sell his mother — " "Then he gives you that smile," said Mr. Pelicone, interrupting The two admit that much of what they know about Mr. Thorson's biography they learned from Mr. Thorson and that, at the very least, he has an aversion to telling his life story as a coherent, easy-to-follow chronology.

This does not imply that all origin-of-life theories and explanations can be dismissed as pure speculation, but rather that the issue should be addressed conjecturally, in an attempt to construct not a mere chronology but a coherent historical narrative by weaving together a large number of miscellaneous observational findings and experimental results (Kamminga 1986).

Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and Norad rec­ords to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that "fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney".

In a 1988 book review, Jack Geiger of The New York Times commented that the detail in Shilts' work was too confusing, being told "in five simultaneous but disjointed chronologies, making them all less coherent", and notes that Shilts neglected to dedicate as much detail to black and Hispanic intravenous drug users, their partners and their children as to gay men.

For a mass of anecdote and detail, however risqué and colourful they might be (and they are often both), does not of itself make for a fully coherent narrative, where the single force that binds is chronology.

Forget chronology.

The chronology is slippery.