Sentence examples for fragmentary quality from inspiring English sources

Macy noted this fragmentary quality and its effect on memory—and since many of these fragments are from Nik's Chronicles, their relationship with the truth is questionable.

A similarly fragmentary quality can be felt in "The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth," which includes work that ranges from the immature and unfinished to the full masterpiece.

"The Yellow Birds" has a fragmentary quality that's suited to prose by a poet; it's better at evoking landscapes and states of feeling than at sustained psychological realism.

Macy noted this fragmentary quality and its effect on memory — and since many of these fragments are from Nik's Chronicles, their relationship with the truth is questionable.

The fragmentary quality of Short's verses -- they leapfrog from puckish obscenity to high lyricism ("This cold gossip is the wind / settling into the trees like prayer / into a pilgrim"); from vivid word salad ("pshaw, pshaw / sluice the black cabs") to wry philosophizing -- mimics a mind torn between grief and celebration, at once concentrated and unable to concentrate.

"Quiet Music," a solo for piano by Muhly and played by him on his début CD, "Speaks Volumes," which was released a year and a half ago, has the haunting, fragmentary quality of an anthem heard from stone church steps through heavy ecclesiastical doors.

Unable ultimately to resolve the piece, though, Michelangelo gave it away, and it was not until the end of the 19th century that the Florence Pietà came to be appreciated by a modern sensibility pioneered in sculpture by Rodin, who admired the statue's raw surfaces and fragmentary qualities, and who once said, "That which is more beautiful than a beautiful thing is the ruin of a beautiful thing".

Despite its fragmentary character, it is a consistently compelling creation.

DNA barcodes could aid in the routine identification of Heteroptera in applied settings by enabling the recognition of morphologically cryptic species, by associating immature forms with adults (pest management), and by identifying eggs (phytosanitary applications) and fragmentary remains (food quality, ecological analyses).

They were all children at the time, of course, and their recollections have a fragmentary, scary-fairy-tale quality.

The liner notes indicate that the band was nervous, and the solos do often sound hesitant and fragmentary compared to the quality of the improvising on the studio soundtrack (to the Joseph Losey movie The Criminal) that also features on the set.