disjointedness

Mr. Trump has had a string of unforced gaffes, garble and general disjointedness that go beyond his usual discursive nature, and that his Republican rivals are pointing to as signs of his declining performance.

The director, Katie Young, lets the initial monotony of their languid throws settle into a steady rhythm, making the disjointedness of their conversation all the more obvious.

Against this dark view, modernism — at least in its more utopian manifestations — proposed that a global language could be found to right the world’s disjointedness.

The show seemed to end about five different times before actually concluding, which suggests a disjointedness, a difficulty in translating so many ideas — good ideas! — into theater.

“There’s a hollowness, there are disconnections, a disjointedness that presents a problem.”