Sentence examples for shards of language from inspiring English sources
Much of the dialogue is composed of clipped shards of language that include few proper sentences, giving the characters' exchanges an arch and artificial sound.
His book is cogently argued and impressively informed, but it is also needlessly convoluted, stuffed with pretentious shards of language and therefore annoyingly difficult to follow.
Bubble Chambers, his pair of brightly coloured canvases covered with shards of language, is the one piece in the whole exhibition where people actually stop and stare a while.
Modernism was the ruling aesthetic inside and outside academe, Eliot was one of its high priests, and his most famous poem, "The Waste Land," was hailed not only for its groundbreaking technique and glittering shards of language, but also for its difficulty — its density, its allusiveness, its recondite knowledge.
"Even growing up around it, little shards of the language stayed alive in our mouths and came out as slang," he said, spouting a string of words that sounded straight out of a James Cagney movie.
By basing Middle Earth on the shards of recovered languages and stories, he rooted it in something very like a collective preconscious.
In terms of language, if not height, the Pompidou is still far more radical than the Shard.
Objects in the shape of Aztec ceremonial pyres are festooned with shards of pottery, lucha libre masks, and Spanish-language Kiss album covers.
These are the times to remember that isolation is a symptom, not a solution, and that flowery language aside, there still are those small shards of light.
Still, shards of melody and martial rhythms suggest the sort of abstract-expressionist language that he had abandoned.
(Shards of shattered glass remain).
