MacKendrick notes that Lactantius was using partial quotations in order to frame what Cicero wrote so that Lactantius could more easily refute his ideas.
Often this happens in the form of allusions to (or partial quotations from) texts of Irish traditional songs, popular ballads, Roman Catholic chant and opera arias.
Here is an example of a partial direct quotation, which, due to its brevity and its use within the sentence, doesn't require a comma: According to the client, the lawyer was "lazy and incompetent".
Note: Full quotes are illustrated by double quotation marks, whereas partial quotes (i.e. a meaningful description disconnected from a full sentence) are illustrated by single quotation marks.
Brief quotation can do only partial justice to the loving acuity with which DiBattista considers this band of admirable women, who give as good as they get, if not a great deal more.
All things considered, we conclude that our attempt to validate the core results of an SRR was at most a partial success, as only 13% of all quotations of the review and 14% of the quotations in the sent questionnaires were covered by the response, reducing representivity.
Two other Legalist texts mentioned in the Han imperial catalog did not survive intact, but lengthy quotations from them in the imperial encyclopedia have allowed partial reconstruction of their content.
Because I'm also very partial to sourcing digital texts from Project Gutenberg, then wordsearching them for a quotation I want to use.
Her narratives are rigorous, partial to the present tense, and untempted by the small change of contemporary realism (abundant and superfluous dialogue in quotation marks, sharply individuated characters, tellingly selected detail).
