fragmentariness

As if he were taking apart the matrushka doll again, the story he writes is varied to the point of fragmentariness.

In addition, both modern and postmodern literature explore fragmentariness in narrative- and character-construction.

And at last the priestess lay silent, vanquished, white body gleaming with that uncanny - fragmentariness - from her torn robes.

Given the play's fragmentariness, an indigenous vaudeville style is required to keep the momentum, but Tom Bloom's rather flat direction helps but little.

It generates, contains, and transmutes into a higher synthesis the fragmentariness, diversity and contradictions of finite existence.

The underlined fragmentariness and simplicity combine with bright intensity of colour to give a special semantic significance and free figurative breath to these works.

Fried rejects Hoffman's view of fragmentariness and anti-academicism, seeing the picture as a structured composition of objects arranged in successive rows.

When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal.

Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun "the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect-his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism.

Bishop Martensen has a fine passage on the fragmentariness of our knowledge, not only of divine providence as a whole, but even of those divine providences that fill up our own lives.

Later, it became a sort of shrine to the postmodern principle of fragmentariness among directors like Richard Foreman and Achim Freyer, who admired it for its turnabouts, disconnections and indeterminacy.

However, while Bax's music sounds on first hearing more eloquent and connected, and more lyrical, some assert that Brian's music has a greater flow and, despite is apparent fragmentariness, a greater symphonic cohesion.

There Royce offered a new modal version of his proof for the reality of God based upon ignorance rather than error, based upon the fragmentariness of individual existence rather than its epistemological uncertainty.

Although the fragmentariness of his music militates against classical thematic unity, he often employs structural blocks of sound, where similar rhythms and thematic material allude to previous passages (as opposed to classical statement and recapitulation).

Niebuhr accepted, as James did, "the limits of all human striving, the fragmentariness of all human wisdom, the precariousness of all historic configurations of power, and the mixture of good and evil in all human virtue."