The book, written in an eccentric prose style replete with fragmentary sentences, is part classical liberal manifesto, part elucubration of an enthusiastic statistical autodidact.

The couple communicate through fragmentary sentences and written phrases using the Chinese characters their languages share.

These are graphically described by Cody in clipped, often fragmentary sentences, their syntax a reflection of Earl's distress: "On my face, hands, all over.

He might be the only man alive able to puzzle through those sometimes fragmentary sentences.

I perceived past, present, and future now as equally unreal: wisps of fog, shafts of blurred pastel light, far-off laughter, furry voices speaking in fragmentary sentences.

I answered him as briefly, in fragmentary sentences.

It consisted of three fragmentary sentences, directed at three points in the article.

The short, often fragmentary sentences and paragraphs reflect the disjointed thoughts of a terminally ill woman.

These are only fragmentary sentences, of course, and not by any means all that I heard; but they are all that I could seize and get written down.

A few fragmentary sentences from L. Cincius (as quoted by Festus) indicated that the Latins would meet at the spring of Ferentina to discuss the issue of command.