Although modernism has its share of utopian dreamers, many artists of the past century have instead celebrated the fragmentary and the glimpsed. |
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Moreover, the fragmentary form reveals an abidingly mysterious quality in even the most conventional texts of classic Hollywood. |
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Only a few, fragmentary teeth are preserved, and judging by the fragments and the size of alveoli, the teeth were gracile. |
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For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems. |
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These grenades were both fragmentary and incendiary devices designed to cause either death or serious battlefield injuries. |
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Studies of Australian war reporting have been fragmentary and of varied literary quality. |
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It is this process of automatization that explains the laws of our prose speech with its fragmentary phrases and half-articulated words. |
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The human remains comprise one complete mandible, two fragmentary mandibles, and a cranial fragment. |
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Being informed of what transpired during fragmentary blackouts often cued further recall. |
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The random inclination of other concentrations of fragmentary specimens is indicative of post mortem disturbance due to bioturbation. |
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Later workers designated additional fragmentary sauropod bones as topotypes that had been collected in the vicinity of the type locality. |
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In spite of its brevity, it still remains a fine specimen of how a group of fragmentary ideas can be moulded into a unified whole. |
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Some kind of story was being told but it was in a non-linear, fragmentary kind of way. |
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All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages. |
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The associated hadrosaur material consists of four caudal vertebrae and a fragmentary dentary. |
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In the recording studios their emphasis on fragmentary noises and localised sound added a whole new dimension to music. |
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The performances also seem improvised because the dialogue is fragmentary, tangential and chatty rather than goal-oriented. |
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However, the fossil is still very fragmentary and although it might well be homopterous, its family position is most obscure. |
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Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past. |
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Apart from a fragmentary metatarsal, the tarsus and pes are not preserved in this specimen. |
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There are times when the voices come to the forefront, but Gubaidulina treats them mostly in a coloristic and fragmentary fashion. |
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His fragmentary scoring for choir and colouristic use of percussion elevates the solo cellist to high priest and turns the piece into a concerto. |
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What you are able to perceive of the physical world is actually very fragmentary. |
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Even at its best, conversation is full of repetitions, fillers, fragmentary phrases, and minimal rhythms. |
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You never have the complete plot line in the way that you would like, so the information is always fragmentary. |
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Having some experience of metal working, he recognised the fragmentary remains as crucibles and clay casting moulds. |
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The remains are very fragmentary, since it served as a quarry for building materials for many centuries. |
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Not much, perhaps, beyond the fragmentary evidence of case studies and field reports. |
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Nothing really major but the whole picture was, in its fragmentary way, more detailed than I'd realised. |
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The fragmentary nature of the rest of the skeletons recovered made gender identification impossible. |
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Excavations yielded the remains of at least six adults in the chambers, together with fragmentary remains of children. |
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The unevenness of the research permits the continued use of a fragmentary and inconsistent labelling system. |
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So what we know about the Revolutionary War is very fragmentary and distorted. |
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And what utterly fascinated us was the incompleteness, the fragmentary quality of his writing. |
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The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing. |
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The medical information conveyed in these ads is fragmentary and sometimes misleading. |
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Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance. |
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The field of psychology should be articulating a broad vision of human beings not a reductive fragmentary one. |
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The fragmentary nature of the reference here turns this statement grammatically into a question. |
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It may be noted that another sherd bearing a fragmentary inscription which includes a digamma was found among the material examined this year. |
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A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone. |
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In the absence of commitment from professional and organisational leaders, efforts will be fragmentary and uncoordinated and will have only minor effects. |
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These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur. |
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The range of provision was described as fragmentary, disjointed, and uneasily reliant on unpredictable, inadequate, or short-term funding streams. |
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The only problem then is the fragmentary nature of the production. |
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While the book's format lets us meet many fascinating people, it has the unfortunate effect of making individual experience disjointed and fragmentary. |
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Within the span of 20 years, fragmentary records indicate that no less than 18 kings and possibly one queen ascended the throne with nominal control over the country. |
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All officials stressed the fragmentary nature of the threat information to date. |
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A sheet of glass is silvered with a pattern of repeated gestural strokes, making for a shifting lattice of fragmentary reflections and glimpses through the glass. |
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Only fragmentary remains are known of animals that may represent early stages in the differentiation of placoderms, chondrichthyes, and osteichthyes. |
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The sculptures are fragmentary and are often missing vital body parts. |
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Too often, memoir seems to me an excuse to be fragmentary, incomplete, narratively non-rigorous. |
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Inherited verbal or other social responses are fragmentary and trivial. |
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Although porringers were often made of pewter, this specimen is a fragmentary shallow brass dish with a decorative handle that measured approximately 14 cm in diameter. |
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North of Cahokia, Missouri flint clay occurs most often in twelfth-century contexts as unworked fragments or fragmentary portions of pipes or figurines. |
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In some ways the poem is the closest thing he would write to the method and manner of Eliot, with its mysterious, fragmentary dialogue and allusive range. |
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Francis Watson argued that all of the fragmentary sentences preserved on the papyrus are also found in the Gospel of Thomas. |
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The music, too, in this act is often fragmentary and lacking in direction. |
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The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries. |
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The footage was fragmentary and shot in grainy black and white. |
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He is not known to have toured East Anglia, for which only a few fragmentary notes survive. |
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Approximately 60m thick flow I is of compound pahoehoe type and highly weathered, exhibiting fragmentary tops at some places. |
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But the long-standing debate over how best to divvy up fragmentary fossils into hominid species has not vanished. |
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The state of Holbein's marriage has intrigued scholars, who base their speculations on fragmentary evidence. |
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Similar to Eliot's other works, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary. |
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Iceland has extensive genealogical records dating back to the late 17th century and fragmentary records extending back to the Age of Settlement. |
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This story agrees in many respects with fragmentary accounts in The Book of Taliesin. |
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Though tool complexes comparative to Europe are missing or fragmentary, other archaeological evidence shows behavioral modernity. |
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However, the material is too fragmentary and their affinities have been questioned. |
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There were larger dinosaurs, but knowledge of them is based entirely on a small number of fragmentary fossils. |
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Cladistic analysis, among other modern techniques, helps to compensate for an often incomplete and fragmentary fossil record. |
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In the 1550s the fragmentary Fasti Triumphales were unearthed and partially restored. |
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Their precise linguistic relationships are uncertain because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence. |
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However, since polar bear fur has always played a marginal commercial role, data on the historical harvest is fragmentary. |
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Surviving physical evidence, such as blowpipes and molds which are indicative of the presence of blowing, is fragmentary and limited. |
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Such huge behavioural change depends on knowledge sharing on a pan-species scale, rather than on fragmentary technofixes. |
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The silver objects tended to be more fragmentary than the gold, as they had been embrittled by excessive cold working. |
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Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time. |
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I took phone calls from the field, with fragmentary updates. |
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Otherwise, only fragmentary descriptions of Aristarchus' idea survive. |
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Evidence for Holbein's religious views is fragmentary and inconclusive. |
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The language is mostly recorded on fragmentary relics, and words have been reconstructed from Middle Dutch and loan words from Old Dutch in other languages. |
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From the 12th century, eight 'old' mormaer dynasties are known to be hereditary, continuous and no longer fragmentary, and also additionally the dynasties of Charraig. |
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These palaces have yielded a wealth of artifacts and fragmentary frescoes. |
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It can also refer to a period in which fragmentary or external historical documents, not necessarily including a developed writing system, have been found. |
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That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it! |
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Five species of cornuate osteostracans have been discovered at Devils Hole, and a further three or four species are probably represented by indeterminate fragmentary material. |
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Because the evidence of these fish, called agnathans, is scant and fragmentary, scientists know little about the agnathans' appearance or about their evolutionary history. |
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Death in the Rain is a novel about unrequited love, about our imprisonment in our own bodies, about the fragmentary quality of existence, and about Weltschmerz. |
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