(The brain, with its fragmentary and elusive qualities, yes, water; but body meat?)

Macy noted this fragmentary quality and its effect on memory-and since many of these fragments are from Nik's Chronicles, their relationship with the truth is questionable.

A similarly fragmentary quality can be felt in "The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth," which includes work that ranges from the immature and unfinished to the full masterpiece.

The whole text has a fragmentary, indefinite quality.

"Now look" instead of "Behold" comes as a shock, and so do the frequent changes of tense, the sudden shifts in point of view, the seemingly uneven, fragmentary quality of the work.

This gives the production a fragmentary quality its predecessor didn't have.

As always, Mr. Conquest is eminently worth reading, even if many of the arguments one encounters in this new book have a familiar ring and the book as a whole has a fragmentary quality.

Some of the pieces had a fragmentary quality that marked them as music cues ripped from a dramatic work.

By radically cropping several of the images, Mr. Hannah accentuates the fragmentary, inexplicable quality of his settings.