fragmentary

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Morrison seems to have taken particular inspiration from the omissions and evasions of Faulkner’s fragmentary storytelling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

"The future of dinosaur research will depend on paying attention to the humble, the fragmentary, the small."

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

For criticism, streaming snippets are now carried along in a fragmentary rush of social media, bumping aside analog writing and reading.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Debord’s genius was in seeing that world in its totality and not in the fragmentary form in which it wants to be seen.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë