Fragmentary in a sentence

The clay tablets that have survived are often fragmentary, and the correspondences have changed over time.

This archaeozoological approach underlies much of Taylor’s work, since the sites he excavates sometimes offer only fragmentary glimpses of the past.

Throughout, it is Wywrot’s instinctive understanding of the transformative possibilities of blur, grain and high contrast that imbues her portraits and landscapes with such a sustained atmosphere of fragmentary otherness.

But these conclusions were based on “fragmentary information,” the report said, because of Kilimnik’s intelligence tradecraft, which relied on encrypted messaging and in-person communications.

The self-awareness of the film could have been unbearable, except awareness (and our fragmentary experience of it) is so entirely the point of everything that the film is wrapped up within and that is wrapped up within it.

Cooper warned that “in any performance of Beethoven’s music, there is a risk of distorting his intentions” and this is particularly the case for the Tenth Symphony because the composer had left only fragmentary material.

The large fossil specimen of C. houghtonorum co-occurred with two fragmentary fin spines of a small hybodont shark, possibly representing remain of stomach content of the C. houghtonorum individual.

Drawing together allusions high and low, from the Fire Sermon of the Buddha and the “Confessions” of Saint Augustine to gossip from Eliot’s maid, the fragmentary poem reads as a clamor of voices, linked together by imagery of water and desolation.

Fragmentary chances are supported by bookmakers in the United Kingdom, and Moneyline chances are supported in the United States.

Some things have changed, of course — age, children, crazy success, the fragmentary attention span of the president of the United States, endless demands on her time, attention, Rolodex.

This is important because each little fragmentary disclosure can feel harmless at the time, but once they're merged into a unitary whole, the picture they from is disturbingly detailed.

We have broken reports of many of his addresses, and very fragmentary memoranda of his conversations and disputes; but no provision of a literary kind seems to have been made to secure permanence.

With Mr. Murry’s formulation of Classicism and Romanticism I cannot agree; the difference seems to me rather the difference between the complete and the fragmentary, the adult and the immature, the orderly and the chaotic.

Actaeon Multiple versions of the Actaeon myth survive, though many are fragmentary.

A fragmentary stone inscription records circus games paid for by a citizen of unknown name to celebrate his achieving the sevirate, a kind of priesthood conferring high status.

Although they are fragmentary, these tablets represent the earliest notated melodies found anywhere in the world.

Ancient Egyptian myths are fragmentary and vague; the religious metaphors contained within the myths were more important than coherent narration.

An example of such a catechism, apparently pertaining to the Leo grade, was discovered in a fragmentary Egyptian papyrus (P.

Bürgermeister-Müller ("chicken wing") Specimen Another fragmentary fossil was found in 2000.

Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones, i. 18, de Officiis, ii. 5; Varro, de Re Rust. i. 2. His work is known only from the many fragmentary quotations of later writers.