Sentence examples for fragmentary ways from inspiring English sources

What about missions that brought few direct confrontations with the enemy and offered only fragmentary ways to measure success?

In an early essay called "A Native Hill," Berry concluded that his probing questions about his life and its relation to his native land — "so full of my own history and so much damaged by it" — could only be answered "in partial and fragmentary ways".

In the possibility of a veiled reality that is perceived in different and fragmentary ways through science, art, and spirituality, d'Espagnat also sees, perhaps, a way to reconcile the apparently conflicting visions of reality that science and religion provide.

He talks in this fragmentary way sometimes, details emerging randomly.

Many of the cameras were unmanned or didn't work; the footage recorded that day is largely out of focus or grisly in a fragmentary way.

Yet in his inspirational account of what led up to and followed Tahrir Square, Jack Shenker argues that the revolution continues, albeit in a fragmentary way, and that it will almost certainly coalesce again at some stage into a new nationwide uprising.

At a public lecture in 1978, Lord Devlin gave a lucid analysis of the Cooper-McMahon case, arguing that not only had the court usurped the function of the jury but that it had considered the evidence in a fragmentary way.

Everything else, including the stipulations on humanitarian access, was already envisaged in the UN resolution on Syria in December but implemented in only the most fragmentary way, not least because of Russian-aided government offensives.

In its oddball, fragmentary way, Palo Alto feels like an authentic portrait of teenage alienation in suburban America: hardly a new subject but one that Franco, with the considerable energies at his disposal, makes vivid and distinctive.

Ms el-Mahrough is also said to have admitted receiving several thousand euros from Mr Berlusconi.The prime minister's version, which has emerged in a fragmentary way, is that he took pity on the runaway Ms el-Mahroug and was merely trying to help her.

Huston père apparently knew it but loved and cared for her nevertheless, as best he could in his fragmentary way.