There, in two shows, are glimpses of Madame Mao, Eva Perón, Imelda Marcos, Elena Ceausescu, Eva Braun and Clara Petacci, along with a torrent of fragmentary thoughts about power, sex, second-class citizenship and whale vomit.
The static electricity of all these quick, fragmentary thoughts made me feel more jittery and caffeinated than if I had drunk three lattes before bed.
Using a rolling succession of voices, Barker takes her time, sometimes giving us a character's every fragmentary thought: "Why is he doing this?
Any ideas that are written down in a notebook are fragmentary, half a thought.
Nietzsche's "Dionysos-Dithyramben" is a fragmentary compilation of poetic philosophical thoughts.
Baudrillard follows this concept of reversal and his paradoxical and nihilistic metaphysical vision into the 1990s where his thought becomes ever more hermetic, fragmentary, and difficult.
But the principal exhibition at the Met Breuer, the one really meant to make the case for the museum's expansion, is Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, which considers incomplete, fragmentary, or rough-hewn artworks over two floors and 500 years of western art history.
Music critic Greg Sandow calls Chuck D's language "strong and elusive, often fragmentary" and "embedded [with] critical, sometimes brutal thoughts".
But Leonardo's vision has a "modern," fragmentary character, whereas Alberti attained a completeness in thought and life that fulfilled the Renaissance ideals of measure and harmony.
Current thought is that Hadrosaurus, although known from fragmentary material, can be distinguished from Gryposaurus by differences in the upper arm and ilium.
As far as historians know, he never committed to paper thoughts about religion or art, except for a fragmentary sentence in a letter to one of his patrons in which he stated that he aimed through his work to convey "great inner emotion".
