Sentence examples for unfinished thought from inspiring English sources

" His voice trailed off in an unfinished thought.

"There is not in this slender book one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought".

-- that seems to give his mind a moment to catch up with the flow of words, or to close off an unfinished thought.

Such faltering could be an instance of anacoluthon (a change of syntax within a sentence), or aposiopesis (a rhetorical term for an unfinished thought), or maybe agrammatism (a form of expressive aphasia).

Another, "listening to rap music," just seemed like an unfinished thought.

One example of this comes at the very end of the play, whose written text ends with a dash, an unfinished thought trailing off into space.

The Met Breuer will open in March, with an exhibition called "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible".

First up: "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible," an exhibition of nearly two hundred works, which ranges from Titian to Basquiat, connecting the past to the present.

The rhythms of their dialogue evoke with pinpoint accuracy the faltering syntax, the stops and starts of unfinished thoughts, or thoughts the speakers half-wish they could take back, the scenes that you would never think of as "scenes".

By E. Tammy Kim Kimberly Drew On a recent Wednesday, at the Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum's new outpost in the old Whitney building, a typical crowd — older, white — milled around the inaugural exhibit, "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible".

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.