Even in its fragmentary state, the variety and vigour of its episodes are apparent.
He knew what he wanted, and he wanted his "Hamzanama" to be a wonder to the world, which it was and, even in a fragmentary state, still is.
The score was commissioned in 1936 for "The Queen of Spades," to be directed by Mikhail Romm, but when the production was called off, the music was left in a fragmentary state.
It is accretive, ostentatious, hyperbolic in its asymmetries and protracted voids, composed of parts that do not connect or are in a fragmentary state, dramatically vertiginous, geometrically farouche, extravagantly cantilevered, discomfiting, aggressive (in so far as an inanimate object can be aggressive).
Mr. Christopher Isherwood, whose collaboration with Mr. Auden in several volumes suggests that he is a poet by nature even if his work so far is in prose and drama, has collected a group of his sketches about pre-Nazi Germany and, to leave them less inconclusive than they might have been in their fragmentary state, also about the same country since Hitler.
The language of the narrative and the educated speakers is pure, easy, and elegant, and the wit of the best comic passages is brilliant; but the general impression, even when allowance is made for the fragmentary state of the text, is that of a book written quickly and somewhat carelessly by a writer who would not take the necessary trouble to discipline his astonishing powers of invention.
McFarlane claims O'Rawe's version of events is confused and fragmentary, and states "We were desperate for a solution.
Evidence from other city-states is more fragmentary, mainly coming from the city-states of Gortyn and Rhegium.
Even when measurements of the steady state compositions are fragmentary, the theory will sometimes indicate that a candidate network which does admit multiple steady states will nevertheless be unable to account for the particular measurements made.
Owuor's fragmentary style is dense but lyrical.
Evidence for other ancient city states is more scattered and fragmentary.
