It was the first by Mr. Hamilton, anyway, and there would be others, notably the collages called "Fashion-plates," which combined the fragmentary features of photographed models with passages of paint mixed with cosmetics.
Computer-scanned and digitally manipulated, it becomes the inspiration for spacey, glowing and pulsating fields of mottled coppery or silvery paint in which the bust of Abraham Lincoln and other distorted and fragmentary features of the coin have a ghostly presence.
Miguel Coyula, whose surreal, fragmentary feature "Memories of Overdevelopment" was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, said that while no specific trend had emerged, there was a greater willingness to tackle riskier and risqué subjects — even Fidel Castro — and document issues not covered by the official press.
It's not yet clear whether The Smile Sessions will see things touched up, but I suspect I'll still far prefer my bootlegs, incomplete and fragmentary as they are, featuring tantalising annotations such as "Barnyard (the real one)".
"Civil Deconstruction," which featured deliberately fragmentary phrases for Ms. Uzzi, Ms. Warfel and Mr. Blumenfeld, was notable for its juxtapositions of light and heavy steps and a brief solo by Mr. Blumenfeld to the sounds of offstage tapping.
To achieve unity, the fragmentary quality of details (facial features) must be resigned.
That means the dozen or so fragmentary fossils classed as Enantiornithes by those features may not belong to the group--and that could shake up the standard idea that Cretaceous enantiornithines were much more diverse than ornithurines.
Several of the York skulls had holes that may have been caused by terminal hammer blows – a feature also seen in the fragmentary remains at a Roman cemetery in Ephesus, Turkey, where it was interpreted as a sign that the dead were gladiators.
Earlier analyses of these fossils only considered their external features, and the remains were so fragmentary that paleontologists could only say the creatures were carnivores of some sort.
Another common feature of these regimes is the fragmentary historiography devoted to them, making broad generalizations difficult.
At least two similar species of Crocodylus may have been present in East Africa during the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene, and in the absence of diagnostic features permitting precise identification [64], [65], referral of fragmentary remains to the species level may not be advisable.
