Sentence examples for fractured about from inspiring English sources

At partition, when British India fractured, about 12m people were uprooted and hundreds of thousands perished.

But there's something fractured about it, too: it's a memento of a memento, a replica of a replica.

The rebels, too, have fractured into about 30 groups of varying size and seriousness.

There were fractured songs about sparrows, "painbirds" and junebugs; fabulous meditations on the beauty and impermanence of life.

Language is on its own in a series of especially telling short texts that all begin with the phrase "Like most everybody else, I like... .. and then diverge into short, oddly fractured monologues about clothes or sports.

Alain Resnais' fractured romance about memory and forgetting inspired the nouvelle-vague film-makers who followed and was hailed by director Eric Rohmer as "the most important film since the war, the first modern film of sound cinema".

Based on the results, the spliced bars generally fractured at about 128, 297 and 82 kN for tensile, shear and flexural loads, respectively.

What he's singing about is fractured and desperate: "Lost, lost in a sea of conjuncture," he chanted in "Nine".

"We're very fractured out here about how we feel about it," she said.

This patient was a woman, eighty-seven years old, who had fractured a hip about a year before.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is often considered to reduce vertebral fractures by about 60% [ 1].