Probably not: India was geographically even more fragmented than Europe, but less innovative technologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was studded with brown oblong shapes—petrified tree logs—and whitish fragments—pieces of petrified bone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that day in Momingside Park, I can hear fragments of people’s thoughts, glimpse scraps of the future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kneel and pick up a seashell fragment. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone who has a little bit of a problem with fragmented sentences and accidental self-disclosures. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

So he turned down into Tramps’ Alley, crunching with relish through the clear, slighdy crusted snow, so that fragments of it clung in a fringe to the trousers tucked into his boots. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could have had a fragment of mesarthium to experiment on in his laboratory, he would have been spared these late-night outings, this risk of discovery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I focus on the path of the broom, keeping my eyes on the dust that collects between glass fragments. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seen from a car window they appear as fragments, evoking memories of woodchucks, badgers, skunks, voles, snakes, sometimes the mysterious wreckage of a deer. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was made into a saint, and fragments of her bones were considered to be sacred relics. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He peered into the mirror fragment again, and saw nothing but his own bright green eye looking back at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The dim light fragmented and died away creeping up the eastern wall. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sodden fragments littered the school yard, with only a few torn and illegible remnants dangling on the ropes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the first part of his life that Perry could remember was measurable-—-a fragment composed of applause, glamour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had read some of his speeches, and had heard fragments of others on the radio and on television, so I associated him with ferocity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Again, my recall of that visit was fragmented, and what was left behind had nothing to do with the doctor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He could choose which shattered fragment he would claim as his own. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robin sealed up the wedge-shaped section to be sent back to the lab along with tissue samples, fish bone fragments, and a suspected tapeworm. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Comes to Gettysburg with that hard fragment of the Regiment which has survived. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burning paper floated in the night breeze for a while, landing in fragments on the grass. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they displayed the greatest interest and directed their attention obsessively to the primitive column, adding new pellets and fragments of earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched the spirit of her mother drift away, she had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the blast and felt the bullet boring through his arm, through flesh and blood and bone, the buckshot fragmenting, some pieces going through his arm and into his chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That shot destroyed the quiet, moonlit peace of the hill, and it shattered my childhood into a thousand fragments that long ago stopped falling and are now dusty relics gathered in distant memories. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the fragments had only a single character. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even now the ink stood up on the fragments thick and black, the writing was not destroyed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was when she had been thinking of her yellow-haired son that the fragment had first come to her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The theories of the time tried to save a fragment of Aristotle’s philosophy by declaring that nature’s horror of the vacuum was “limited”; it could only destroy a finite amount of vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sighed and bent over the little table, examining the charred fragment of paper. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tore the page up in many little fragments and threw them into the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They walked to the church, past the great houses that rested in the shadow of the Lawn, singing fragments of Christmas carols in the atonal Meecham voices, and laughing at every joke anyone made. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not least, the Americas were more fragmented by areas unsuitable for food production or for dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in darkness looks like fragments of monsters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He explained his discovery of the few words on the charred fragment of paper. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When one cigarette burned down to a fragment he no longer could hold, he lit another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a final roar, the giant splintered into a million tiny fragments of darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I took a box of matches and set fire to the fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed crying, afraid to step into the room where I heard things breaking, but the next morning there were no mismatched pieces, no chips or fragments, nothing to sweep away. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with the crumpled strips are pearly purple fragments of something that looks like it’s been broken. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

That fragment of a face in the little round mirror suddenly smiled at her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the hours that followed were fragments, like bits of shattered glass. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For the next eight hours, I run after the agile Gail, absorbing bits of instruction along with fragments of personal tragedy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were hidden behind a camera lens, watching another world whirl past in shattered fragments. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Properly placed, the fragments of talk ran like this: “Did you hear about that girl?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered up the eggshell-thin fragments with care and placed them in a small blue box which had once held a bracelet that her grandmother had given her when she was a little girl. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She rubbed sleep from her eyes and remembered fragments of a dream in which she was Wonder Woman and Sosie was Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I wonder if maybe you have to read it as a poem, instead of just reading these fragments for quotes and clues. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were vacant, like the eyes of those mad people who wandered around the roadside garbage dumps in town, pulling grimy, tom canvas bags with their life fragments inside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybeth gathered the fragments of shells that nestled among the grassy seaweed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ratchett certainly received one letter of a very different character—the one containing a reference to the Armstrong baby, a fragment of which we found in his compartment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate several vivid pink slices of ham, picked a fragment of meat from his beard, dropped it onto his plate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Blackberry, who had finished the fragments of lettuce he had found, was sitting up and looking over the very low side, watching a stone-colored, black-spotted trout swim up into the fall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light reflected from the stained-glass window on the stair landing and made shattered fragments of blue and orange and green on the dark wood of the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But no fragments existed, for the simplest of reasons: Mesarthium could not be cut. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every time she entered that world of light, she was overwhelmed with images, memories, history, until she was flailing through the endless fragments of time, fighting off headache and vertigo and nausea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Because Wari and Tiwanaku pottery differed, Williams and Nash have been able to map which group lived in which neighborhood by the distribution of ceramic fragments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His hand broke the surface; gray particles trickled and hurried down, fragments of plaster resembling the radioactive dust outside. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’d been privy to his consultations with every member of the crew, but she knew she was seeing only fragments of his plan. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the other way round with a Horcrux. The fragment of soul inside it depends on its container, its enchanted body, for survival. It can’t exist without it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The fragments of melody he could make out were strange and tantalizing, but she sang so quietly he could hear next to nothing at all. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There would be sharp wood pieces and jagged fragments of broken pots. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, willy-nilly, a little fragment of problematic facticity was let loose in the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After I finally made the cut and handed it to Songololo, she looked at my hand and kissed it, knocking the fragment to the soil. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We struck lightly and only chips glanced off the stone: we struck hard and it fell to fragments. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have followed Apollodorus, but I have added the fragment from Simonides, and short quotations from other poets, notably Hesiod and Pindar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you really do form two such fragments,” she said, “they would be pushed apart with great energy.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way to tell what happened,” Quentin muttered, bringing in a handful of fragments. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a while a fragment smashes away his chin, and the same fragment has sufficient force to tear open Leer’s hip. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the fragments of my life and put them together, all but the missing piece; and out of my affliction I called to Puli. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish bone fragments would be sent to a lab where they could hopefully identify the specific species of fish, giving clues to the shark’s whereabouts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A fragment of shell lifted, and fresh air rushed in. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jake tore the note to pieces and rolled the fragments between his sweating palms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes again as my fingers reach to brush the closest fragments of the splendor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hyenas—stinking, ugly little beasts, not so impressive until you had seen them, working as a pack, pull a man down and rend him into fragments...and then eat the fragments. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Wincing, he cast about, searching the muddy roadway for the fragment of tapestry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The next case housed a Canyon Diablo meteorite, one of many fragments of the asteroid that created the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, Tyrion had read a fragment of Unnatural History that had eluded the Blessed Baelor, but he doubted that any of Barth’s work had found its way across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At Caltech, two physical chemists, Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, had used this technique to solve the structures of several protein fragments—a feat that would win Pauling the Nobel Prize in 1954. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But then we should expect as many explosion fragments traveling toward us as away from us, as many blue shifts as red shifts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another tried to snake around the edge of the table, but Ayanna’s staff, flaring with golden light, struck out and jabbed it in the collar until it disintegrated into a tinkle of blackened fragments. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alertly Biff picked up fragments of his monologue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring, but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crab-apple tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Objects patter onto the roof—shell fragments? cinders?— and Marie-Laure says aloud, “You are too high in the house,” and forces herself out from beneath the bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Keeping his bleeding hand elevated, Harry scraped the fragments of cup together with the other hand and threw them into the already crammed bin just visible inside his bedroom door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

From outside comes a light tinkling, fragments of glass, perhaps, falling into the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And by the time she had done all this and put Poppy to bed, she still had almost half an hour to study the fragments of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hallways and doors crafted from pages of books and bits of blueprints, pieces of wallpaper and fragments of letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the ground at the base of the pole were bleached fragments of mullet skeletons that had been picked clean and discarded by the birds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By a fragment of a letter found in his compartment.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over time my eyes and ears adjusted, so that I began to feel at home with those fragments of my people’s history: stories of pioneers, my ancestors, striking out across the American wilderness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He spoke fragments of French, Spanish and Japanese. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel sat choking with nausea and disgust as Kehaar lifted it entire and beat it against a beech root, so that small fragments flew round them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tunguska Event seems to have been caused by a chunk of Comet Encke, a piece substantially larger than the tiny fragments that cause those glittering, harmless meteor showers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third hit the mouse, blowing it into fragments. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A shell blew very close, on the far side of the horse, and Armistead, partially shielded, saw black fragments rush by, saw Kemper nearly fall. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hand out of the cast-iron fragments and looked with wonder at my wrist, painted a bright red, and then I saw a spurt of blood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the flames wrapping around the fragments of wood that fuel them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Though each of the others vanished and reappeared like fragments floating round a pool, Pipkin never left him; and his need for encouragement became at last Hazel’s only support against his own weariness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cape Town surgeon X-rayed my heel and discovered bone fragments that had probably been there since Fort Hare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front seats, pale gray leather, were strewn with fragments of broken glass and stained with patches of dark brown. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is due to complex brightly colored organic molecules produced when ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down the methane, ammonia, and water in the Jovian atmosphere and the molecular fragments recombine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here chick,” she called, “here chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick—” Ellen slowly reached out with her hoe and broke a clod of dirt into crumbling fragments. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Mr. Wise says I have a thing about sentence fragments. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A shell hit a caisson; it blew up in a great black tower of smoke, small black fragments whirling up into the air, fine dust sifting down everywhere, settling on the lips, into the eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped portentously on to the path, a fragment of the original Appalachian Trail from the days when it passed here en route from Mount Oglethorpe to Springer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gavril cut my clothes from my body, pulling them away in fragments, a sleeve here, the leg there. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Cushions lay deflated, feathers oozing from slashes in their sides; fragments of glass and china lay like powder over everything. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, one might guess that they once had a more nearly continuous distribution, which became fragmented as speakers of other language families expanded or induced Miao-Yao speakers to abandon their tongues. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most astronomers, according to Curtis Peebles, expected little, particularly as the comet was not a coherent sphere but a string of twenty-one fragments. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The flames amid the rubble consumed the remaining fragments of the house and gusted into the sky, a nimbus of fire. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I try desperately to make sense of an elusive fragment of memory. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fragments of the same vase, but the destruction of all five meant that every vase was flawed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Balrog fell back and its sword flew up in molten fragments. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A piercing blue eye had looked out of the mirror fragment, and then help had come. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the world looks slightly fractured, and it takes a minute to realize that the sun must be well up and the glasses fragmenting my vision. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After gathering the remaining fragments of Lee’s body into a single heap, the bear lifted the flower in his mouth and dropped it in the center of them, as humans liked to do. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Robinson’s diplomatic letter contained one fragment of steel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He heard the great whirring of fragments in the air, saw air bursts in bright electric sparks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had dragged out from the comers of his memory some more fragments of forgotten rhymes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Iorek Byrnison looked at them as a smith as well as a warrior, but there was nothing in these fragments he could use. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just as the skeletons opened fire, the pearl fragments at my feet exploded with a burst of green light and a gust of fresh sea wind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

First, they cleared my ear canal of scar tissue and bone fragments; it was then that they discovered my eardrum had been shattered. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Big news from the dinosaur dig: They found a Camptosaurus skull fragment about the size of a paint chip. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Through the grid of steel cables, the skyscrapers divide into manageable fragments. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course she did, and had a capital time. I expected to see her brought home in fragments, but she managed him perfectly, and was the life of the party.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buljol was salty in her mouth, smeared smooth with avocado, small crunches of onion and toast fragments. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He came to one of the fragments, sniffed it and tasted it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the fragments he taught me and the whippings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even if the iron missed its target, the stones and shattered metal fragments ricocheted about dangerously. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Beside it, the spilled ink seeps back into its jar, the glass fragments reforming around it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Glancing around in what I hoped looked like intense concentration, I noticed a few fragments of colored chalk on the ledge of the board. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was a fragment of the mural, hurled all this way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We looked at the fragment again in the light of day. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Telescopes in space are the means for checking these shards and fragments of data that may be the spoor, the trail, of the legendary black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The claymores sent fragments of steel in whatever direction you pointed them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see that I’ve connected the dots of her fragmented life, and here I am. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Other broken objects rested there as well, including the jagged fragments of the ceramic pot Kendra had noticed earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Now they wear only the most pitiful clothing, and try to exchange little carvings and objects that they have made out of shell fragments and copper driving bands. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been talking to herself, so what she said was a fragment of a much larger conversation. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of throwing away the fragments of the mirror as she had planned, she folded them into an old rag and put the rag into the empty trunk. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stood up he found that he was covered with fragments of glass from the nearest window. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The crowd wandered over to help us study the fragments like tea leaves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow life had become fragmented, confusing; for a moment he had lost his unwavering drive. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel I’ve returned it to him, along with whatever fragments of his own life, or of our life together, I’ve been keeping back till now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most look like fragments of things, single words or phrases that don’t make sense on their own: Night flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Like a colossal junkyard, the swamps and back lots of Connecticut flashed past, one broken-down fragment bearing no relation to another. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Inside the wooden bucket, bits of meat, cut carrots, potato fragments, and onion floated in a fragrant yellow broth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He picked up a fragment of fallen plaster and drew dusty white stripes across the backs of his hands, the way ceremonial dancers sometimes did, except they used white clay, and not old plaster. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, however, she went on with the action of tearing, as though the material were still in her hands; finally she lifted her hands and opened them as though scattering the fragments. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Here is an example: a British anthropologist named Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey is displaying some fossil bones—a foot, part of a hand, some jaws, and skull fragments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few preserved African skeletal fragments contemporary with the Neanderthals are more similar to our modern skeletons than to Neanderthal skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even fewer preserved East Asian skeletal fragments are known, but they appear different again from both Africans and Neanderthals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He drew his legs up carefully and picked at the bonds with a fragment of bone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old rules had changed, fragmented, broken into bits. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But he survived, somehow, and he even kept his arm, though it still had bullet fragments lodged inside and dangled uselessly. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nattie walks over to the trash can and stares straight down into it, at the torn fragments, sadly. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A fragment of beetle was sticking to her lower lip, and there was no expression at all in her black button eyes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Curious, he put out his hand, and she dropped a sharp, curved fragment of glittering white glass onto it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In spite of all the flying fragments the drivers of the munition columns pour in like a swarm of bees and pounce on the bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pulled bone fragments from the earth before. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They usually fired two guns at once, one right after the other, and the fragments from the burst were enormous. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was very little electrical activity in his brain, but now and then the flatlines gave a spooky twitch, as if something continued to struggle inside the boy, some destroyed fragment of his soul. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fragment of memory returned—recollection of myself as a youngster reading Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit, her description of the Negro boy stopping along a lonely path to urinate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody held a fragment of glass under her nostrils. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could stand at the time. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a very few fragments of his poems have come down to us. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few bits survived: Beowulf in England, the Nibelungenlied in Germany, and some stray fragments here and there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our rocks and pebbles, the sand and gravel you see: these were Ymir’s teeth, and the fragments of bones that were broken and crushed by Odin and Vili and Ve in their battle with Ymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Milo’s voice splintered into fragments, and he clutched at Yossarian’s shirt front as though drowning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was versatile, and Major Major soon found himself incorporating the signature in fragments of imaginary dialogues. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As explained in the preceding section, I inferred that competition between different political entities spurred innovation in geographically fragmented Europe, and that the lack of such competition held innovation back in unified China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, strapped into the litde seat, his mouth speckled with leaf fragments, the infant looked back and grinned at Claire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think of the fragment of glass tattooed on her skin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The fragmented distribution of Nilo-Saharan languages in Figure 19.2 similarly implies that many speakers of those languages have been engulfed by speakers of Afroasiatic or Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was still fragments, some of it, though from describing it to Alys she remembered the birth now, clearly and with horror. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As though meaning had slunk out of things and left them fragmented. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the fragments of leaves under my fingers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

First, they removed all the remaining fragments of the bacterial coat from the debris. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then—no, it was not relief, only hope, a tiny fragment of hope. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

By studying the strengths and weaknesses of commanders he had served under, he had collected shards and fragments of the speech he would one day deliver to men who looked upon him as their commander. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not use the sonic, stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt strange dropping through it this time, landing on the stairs amid fragments of wood from the door Adiah had destroyed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It stung a little, and fragments of earth fell down his collar and under his clothes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now contrast those events in China with what happened when fleets of exploration began to sail from politically fragmented Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

T A he months went by; I read my fragments and powdered Mr. Sharpe’s hair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, precisely because Europe was fragmented, Columbus succeeded on his fifth try in persuading one of Europe’s hundreds of princes to sponsor him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to his cubicle, sat down, threw the fragment of paper casually among the other papers on the desk, put on his spectacles and hitched the speakwrite toward him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To Ekon’s surprise, the sparkling fragments left her body and floated around her as though waiting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This was secure, this funny fragment of time he would never remember, never think about again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It goes without saying that these fragments of her—a shoulder, beige, camel’s-hair, the side of a face, the back of a leg—belong to women who, seen whole, are not Cordelia. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fell to the ground, hitting the waste-paper basket as he did so, and broke into fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry,” Eleanor said; she bent down, but it did not seem possible to scoop up the fragments of tomato and cheesecake and shove them somehow back into the broken bag. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She would be in the dream, sometimes with her father, sometimes not, running from house to house, unable to find an unshattered mirror to hold the fragments of her terror. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made a high rasping sound like a cricket and sent a shower of metal fragments to glitter in the light Eye trained on the gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They show only fragments of ideas: a ring of tents, a central promenade. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry moved across the room, slid the mirror fragment off today’s Prophet, and unfolded the newspaper. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Both of these locations are hazardous: my life is now multiple, and I am in fragments. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had several broken ribs, a collarbone shattered into countless fragments, severe internal injuries, a broken shoulder, and a concussion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eye fell on the fragments of the glass paperweight. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Holly, gaunt, his staring pelt full of goose grass and fragments of burdock, was talking with the three hutch rabbits and reassuring them as best he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the pasture nearby Hazel could see scattered, russet-and-orange-colored fragments, some with feathery light green foliage showing up against the darker grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fragments exploded across the room as if a gigantic tree had been sloppily felled. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we know is from fragments, chiefly on ethics, and secondhand accounts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An impact of a small cometary fragment with the Earth, as at Tunguska, should occur about once every thousand years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the lantern’s light lingered, just long enough for Ashoke to raise his hand, a gesture that he believed would consume the small fragment of life left in him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Regular soil is a crazy mix of everything from fine rock fragments to water, air, insects, and even bacteria and fungi. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Another fragmented language group is the Austroasiatic family, whose most widely spoken languages are Vietnamese and Cambodian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first was the snow, the second was our reconstruction of that fragment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got outside, Cliff shook his head and picked up fragments of a broken sign. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk away and yet held onto the door, as if for physical support. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We got fragments of information from time to time and pieced together that the Allies had landed at Normandy and were mounting an assault in the west. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He found pieces of old glass, mottled with rainbow swirls, and fragments of pottery. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the legends that he had heard in his early years such fragments of tales and half-remembered stories about the Elves as the hobbits knew, had always moved him most deeply. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jonas said the standard phrase automatically, and tried to pay better attention while his mother told of a dream fragment, a disquieting scene where she had been chastised for a rule infraction she didn’t understand. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

So he turned down into Tramps’ Alley, crunching with relish through the clear, slightly crusted snow, so that fragments of it clung in a fringe to the trousers tucked into his boots. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head was a vacuum to all the diffused fragments of my universe I’d scattered into the dark on the way home from Julia Bishop’s house. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Striking the Earth’s atmosphere, a modest cometary fragment would produce a great radiant fireball and a mighty blast wave, which would burn trees, level forests and be heard around the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sliding around it, which they could easily have done, they searched until they found a fragment of wood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the exhibits, on the shelves of our museums are the fragments of distant worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Bobby’s exhumation, a fragment of bone from his left small toe was extracted, in addition to seven tissue samples—enough for a binding test. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And yet...through painstaking work, day after day, the cryptographers at Arlington Hall began to pick up fragmented meanings in the Soviet cables. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One memory in particular has preoccupied me all morning - or rather, a fragment of a memory, a moment that has for some reason remained with me vividly through the years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The aged fascist would conduct witch-hunt after witch-hunt until the formerly intact Ignatius J. Reilly was reduced to a fragmented and mumbling vegetable. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of that turquoise peacock statue, maybe a fragment of its beak, or of its tiny head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Yet the words had been used too often and the fragments that came to Chamberlain now were weak. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since he deeply loved Catherine and love requires trust, he was torn to quivering fragments by his emotion. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she saw a glint of metal in the heap of rug fragments. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had kneeled on the prayer rug, remembering only fragments of verses I had learned in school. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I thought,” he said, and cut another and another, reducing the massive thing to a pile of fragments in less than a minute. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only a small fraction of its works survived, along with a few pathetic scattered fragments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shrapnel. About two days ago. You stopped the bleeding by applying pressure but that pushed the fragments deeper, causing more pain. It’s infected. You poured liquid on it at some point.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As much as an eighth of the hill, by volume, was composed of such fragments, he said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he was gone, leaving Mariam to spit out pebbles, blood, and the fragments of two broken molars. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were small nuts and bolts, and screws, and tiny fragments of metal and rubber. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sold it,” Marco says, picking up the fragments of memory attached to the ring itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its billions of particles were like the stars of every galaxy in the sky, and every one of them was a little fragment of conscious thought. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then she took the biggest knife from the kitchen, slipped it into the doorjamb, and forced it until the dried-out wood splintered and came out in fragments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glittering black fragments dotted the land, winking at us as we soared overhead. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There are just tiny fragments of pleasure and luxury in the world, and there is something unpatriotic about enjoying them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped from his robot’s shoulders and landed on the crystalline ground with a light thump and a flying of jagged fragments. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Words I had not understood, phrases I believed to be the fragments of a poor idiot’s mind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The political consensus that had held together during Washington’s first term, and had then begun to fragment into Federalist and Republican camps over the Whiskey Rebellion and Jay’s Treaty, broke down completely in 1797. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the opposite extreme, the largest Polynesian island, New Zealand, is an old, geologically diverse, continental fragment of Gondwanaland, offering a range of mineral resources, including commercially exploitable iron, coal, gold, and jade. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Waking from the dream, Tartini attempted to recollect the fugitive motives of this diabolic sonata, but could not — and wrote instead, from those fragments, his sonata, infamous for its difficulty, called “The Devil’s Trill.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just like that, the sharp, horrible fragments of a memory returned to her like pieces of broken pottery. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Huggins had found organic matter in the comets; in subsequent years cyanogen, CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom, the molecular fragment that makes cyanides, was identified in the tails of comets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And fragments from an angry Miss Pagett: "... repeated warnings ... new information ... search is fully warranted." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could a rare but natural event, the impact of a sizable cometary fragment, trigger a nuclear war? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny’s tail banged down on the rotting lectern, smashing it into several fragments. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There is, however, no sign—not the slightest fragment of evidence—that they had been struck by this, and Sprat went out of his way to criticize Bacon’s insufficiently critical approach to questions of evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Matter blown outward from the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar wind, carries fragments of dust and ice back behind the comet, making an incipient tail. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung the trident in his massive hands and in one shock from top to bottom split that promontory, toppling into the sea the fragment where the great fool sat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Limbs and fragmented skulls lay on top of the bog, and the water in the swamp had been replaced by blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I tuck a smaller fragment of the rock into my pocket and start climbing back up the cliff face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They heard a cackle of laughter and a fragment of song. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So the days passed in Greek fragments and chores. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their voices were unusually loud and Bruno could only make out a few fragments of them: \\ .. to leave Berlin. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

I bend down and pick it up, placing the fragmented treasure gently back on a shelf. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What they saw pulled the fragments of Piper’s babble together. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One such technique is his use of fragments of melody, or rhythm, or harmony, as calling cards of a character, a place, an idea, an object or a memory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The walls were studded not with gemstones but with bone fragments. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There are over three quarters of a million volumes here, and that’s not even taking into consideration the clays or scrolls or fragments from Caluptena.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Particle physicists look at the subatomic realm with particle accelerators: they use magnetic fields or other means to get tiny particles moving very fast; when these particles collide with one another, they spit off fragments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From these fragments, researchers discovered that Stone Age mathematicians were a bit more rugged than modern ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The bullet took off only a tiny flap of skin on the side of her nostril, and it came out clean, with no bullet fragments left inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The jacket he wore was a part of his father’s history, a fragment of Bull’s biography that occurred before Ben’s birth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One circle of fairies spread their arms, and fragments of glass skittered together, took the form of a pair of fairies, and came back to life. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Pollard’s injuries, involving fragmented bones that ground together each time he moved, were agonizing, and medicine offered few practical solutions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horace showed the sheriff three fragments of the deceased’s skull that had lodged in the tissue of his brain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once that thought fitted into the thousand fragments of memory flitting through my mind, the pain of the scratches and the scraped skin left me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt was six years old again, lying in a pool of blood with Rosa plucking fragments of glass from his foot. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I descend, the fragment of outside light vanishes as I fall into the darkness. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay; but some trunks came out in one piece. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But after landing, the spacecraft returned a twenty-second fragment of a featureless television picture to Earth and then mysteriously failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all jumped into the hole and admired the triangular iron fragment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far back in the woods there was still fog in the trees, caught in the branches like fragments of white summer, and Lee remembered: Bow down Thy Heavens, 0 Lord, and come down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is but a fragment, Honorable Emissary. And yet, I believe that it shows all of my master’s skill.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We’d always sat together at lunch, only in fragments, never the whole team together, but with the impromptu gathering out front, everything had shifted. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Our job, it emerges in fragments throughout the day, is to keep ladies’ wear “shoppable.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As always, the plaza area was littered with a thousand fragments of recently torn-up parking tickets that looked like muddy stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is played with small stones, fragments of stick or the like. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I began to pick up the tiny fragments of nonexistent crystal, a voice broke in. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a three block area with stores facing the street, the river visible in fragments of green through the alleyways that cut through to unseen parking lots by the water. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Wari and Tiwanaku collapsed, at the end of the first millennium, the Andes split into sociopolitical fragments and with one major exception remained that way for more than three centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Kino beat and stamped the enemy until it was only a fragment and a moist place in the dirt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a two-inch-long fragment of the enchanted mirror that his dead godfather, Sirius, had given him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a discovery. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I scroll through butterfly images, each wing made of fragments of photographs and then hand-dyed in rich pigments until the photographs are unrecognizable. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But the only trace of an air battle the aviators could see below them was a fragment of a Soviet aircraft wing on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering, each rabbit, as he pursued his own fragment, was sensitive to the trend of the whole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the first bone fragments popped up, that was it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The donkey and especially the toad, the creatures most important to him, had vanished, had become extinct; only rotting fragments, an eyeless head here, part of a hand there, remained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was gone she stood there smashing cups and bowls and platters until the whole set lay in scattered blue and white fragments across the wooden floor. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would there be many dried fragments, like squashing a harmattan-dried leaf? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After hammering out a pile of jagged iron fragments, I slipped while crawling out and threw back my left hand to catch myself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The memory was coming back to me in fragments. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind these and other proximate factors, I saw an “Optimal Fragmentation Principle”: ultimate geographic factors that led to China becoming unified early and mostly remaining unified thereafter, while Europe remained constantly fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers moved absentmindedly to the little pouch still strung around his neck, through which he could feel the jagged mirror fragment in which he had been sure he had seen Dumbledore’s eye. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She picked up her sandals and thrust them under her arm, put the fragments in the pocket of her skirt and took up the vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She found fragments of bone and hair with the shredded twine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One fragment, known as Nucleus G, struck with the force of about six million megatons–seventy-five times more than all the nuclear weaponry in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I guess you do have a thing about sentence fragments, but I sort of love it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When the Europeans actually arrived, the battered, fragmented cultures could not unite to resist the incursion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lee heard fragments split the air near him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept waiting, hoping to see a tiny fragment of shadow break away and come running to the wall, to me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

However, today those languages are gone, and we already saw from Figure 19.1 that the Pygmies’ modern distribution is highly fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At Independence in 1960, Nigeria was a collection of fragments held in a fragile clasp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The other three families have fragmented distributions, being spoken by “islands” of people surrounded by a “sea” of speakers of Chinese and other language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Automatically, without really thinking about what he was doing, Harry pulled out the fragment of parchment, opened it, and read by the light of the many wands that had now been lit behind him: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Stars innumerable, cold and white, like the fragments of a shattered sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I heard the rock smash into a thousand fragments. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That my heart might stop without the fragments of metal that would rip it apart? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecilia put the vase down and hurried over, and knelt down to retrieve the fragment before her sister began to trample on it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Only fragments of crates remain, the containers which signify nothing in themselves. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn’t seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is covered in fragments—some are words or sentences that may or may not become story ideas. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For not a leaf fragment blew under the door but what the wall panels flipped open and the copper scrap rats flashed swiftly out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The servant stood up, shaking a fragment in Bandit’s face. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

There had been a fair somewhere near here once, long ago, with motorcycle races; the signs still carried fragments of words. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had known all this for a long time but he had never said it, except in fragments. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The fragments of the glass marbles that she saw looked like the remains of eggshells one finds beneath trees in springtime: like empty, broken robin’s eggs, or even more delicate—wren’s eggs, perhaps. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He pointed out droppings and tracks and bone fragments. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny fragments of light seemed to be gathering all around her, dancing up her length and out of her hands. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Shrapnel was embedded over his right eye, and the doctors couldn't remove it because the fragments were too close to his brain. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They shimmered and rippled, and when I looked closer, I realized that the threads were fragments of stories—actual lines from tales I vaguely remembered—spun into golden silk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piecing together the fragments of memory, Claire could feel the cool dirt of the path under her bare feet. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The candles sat in red, blue, green, yellow, and purple glasses and looked like fragments of rainbow dancing over the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But ever since the night I sang on the roof with Zohra, words to my own song—fragments and phrases—have been dancing through the back of my mind. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ralph carried a fragment to the fire and watched the smoke that drifted into the dusk. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Piggy leaned forward and put a fragment of wood on the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In those early days, lightning and ultraviolet light from the Sun were breaking apart the simple hydrogen-rich molecules of the primitive atmosphere, the fragments spontaneously recombining into more and more complex molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many bullets, the particles slam into air molecules in the upper atmosphere, knocking off fragments that in turn strike other air molecules. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fire thrower worked again: this time a mass of blazing sulfur hurtled directly upward to strike the gondola and burst in a cascade of flaming fragments on all sides. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was still gazing at the mirror fragment in which, for a split second, he had thought he saw Dumbledore’s eye. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There are no individual scenes, but fragments, shards that show the constant progression of time. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I rode thoughtfully away, another fragment of the known world gone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They pry and gouge rocks off the walls, and chew them to fragments between their teeth, and swallow the broken bits of rock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auk XI, which had rocket candy inside that I had not moistened, leapt off the pad with a satisfying hiss, but then exploded, steel fragments whistling overhead while we hit the dirt inside the blockhouse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He broke "hypothesis" down into four fragmented words to put some spice on it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Whereas to me it was a bombshell, exploding in a thousand fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

While sifting the accumulated ash through a fly screen, he found human teeth and a fragment of jaw. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Voices singing and sighing, rising, straining, then surging, teeming with pleasure that burst syllables into fragments of laughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear fragments of things but nothing whole. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It all exploded into a rainbow of sound that dripped its fragments onto an aching brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“It just occurred to me you might be interested,” he would say with a deprecating little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Briony still held the bloody metal fragment between her forceps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We both went flat and with the flash and bump of the burst and the smell heard the singing off of the fragments and the rattle of falling brick. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For millions of years, the separate fragments of Pangaea had almost no communication. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tiny black ants were scurrying over the shattered melons; the flies were rubbing their feet on fragments of pulp and rind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had to pick numerous fragments of bone from the stew. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new confidence had been born in me when I burnt that page and scattered the fragments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, staring dazedly at the fragments of crystal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cup had gone through first one pillar, then another, breaking them into tiny fragments of stone. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Gripped with pain and terror, Emilia spoke in fragmented German and Polish. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe when you were dead, there was no such thing as the past or present, only fragments. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

While we lay there, watching the fragments of Swift-Tuttle burning and fizzing across the black of the desert night, I had to endure the entire humiliating tale. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That is merely a fragment of the whole.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are even suggestions that mountains as far south as the Shackleton Range in Antarctica may be fragments of the Appalachian family. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A cannon shell burst in the air nearby, raining fragments in the wet leaves around him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at what remained of the elven-cakes: broken fragments for about five meagre days, that was all. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in October, the fragment on the highway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fragment of a chord, a familiar tune came to the front in the form of a tiny sequence of notes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Naturally, Miao-Yao speakers did not acquire their current fragmented distribution as a result of ancient helicopter flights that dropped them here and there over the Asian landscape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nervously, I rub the tiny fragments of dried leaf into dust between my fingers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That fragmented and terrifying vision is nonetheless endowed with an inescapable and compelling aura of beauty, an exalted inkling of historical, spiritual, and personal progress. What to Stream This Weekend: “Burning Cane” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

From the throwaway to the bittersweet, these fragments take us dreamily through the night. Whatever Gets You Through the Night – review 2012-06-29T15:15:40Z

Last year, Italy returned a fragment from the Parthenon that for more than 200 years had been on display at a museum in Sicily. After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

I may be slightly off on that, I had to put it together from dialogue fragments. One Tree Hill and me: the true cost of renting your home to a hit TV show 2012-07-27T22:00:46Z

“The Railway Man” begins awkwardly with the dying Lomax mumbling a fragment of a poem that never amounts to much. Movie Review: ‘The Railway Man,’ a True Tale of Wartime Torment and Reconciliation 2014-04-10T22:30:18Z

“In Asmara” is a profile of everyday Eritreans but also of the city itself, filled with bustling life and fading fragments. The Timeworn Beauty of Asmara, Eritrea 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

The painter Nengi Omuku, whose works of abstracted, fragmented self-portraiture explore mental health and fractured identities, is organizing the renovation, by artists, of a building at the city’s main psychiatric hospital. Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Standing on a ridge next to a fragment of the wall on a recent sunny Sunday, I surveyed the scene. In Europe’s border walls, a divided history and a united future 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The Mozart was the sketchiest of the fragments; some passages had only a single line written out, with pauses for responding figures. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z

If you want to get a look for yourself, some of the last existing fragments of the original edition are in the British Museum. Are these Shakespeare's dirty pictures? 2010-12-10T13:46:00Z

There is a whole other fanbase she would rather speak to; and that reminds us just how fragmented the cultural conversation has become. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

We see fragments of maps, envelopes and graph paper, postcards and stamps. A New Technology Age: When the Technology Is Books, and the Age Is 3 to 7 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

In a fragment of an earlier stone carving, we see just her lion face. Art Review: ‘Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-07-25T21:29:11Z

But the fragment Prokofiev completed is graceful and light-spirited, with some lovely vocal writing. 2010-02-11T08:55:00Z

Unlike Osborne’s play, a conventional narrative, “Revolt” unfolds in a series of fragments that recall the form-bending virtuosity of Caryl Churchill. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

His girlfriend tends to downbeat introspection: “In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.” ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ review: Elena Ferrante’s final — key — volume 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Not a fragment of any of his paintings survives. Lost art comes back to haunt us 2012-06-06T12:10:18Z

They come because, even in a fragmented, streaming era, the town’s birthday remains the Oscars. Inside Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party: Every Star, All at Once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

The galleries at the American Art Museum can be tricky to organize, with deep bays tending to fragment the experience. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

"They go in all directions and it can be sometimes quite difficult to find order within the fragments," Comment told Reuters in an interview, adding that the writing bordered at times on self-psychoanalysis. Marilyn Monroe's writings to be published in autumn 2010-04-28T15:37:00Z

Mr. Ratmansky’s “Namouna” was a deliriously odd and brilliant homage to balletic tradition; Mr. McGregor’s “Outlier” a foray into a world of fragmented, highly coordinated movement, all angular peaks and organic curves. Slowly Altering Expectations 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z

A tiny room features a painting of Corduroy the Bear on the wall as well as a sad little checkerboard with bottle caps and eggshell fragments filling in as substitute pieces. | 'The Tenant': ?The Tenant? by Woodshed Collective - Review 2011-08-28T21:54:33Z

Seattle playwright Leonard D. Goodisman’s new drama “Checkoff in the Sun” is a fragmented, postmodern version of the dysfunctional family play. ‘Royal Blood,’ ‘Checkoff in the Sun’ 2014-03-27T20:58:04Z

Ward Miller, the executive director of Preservation Chicago, a citizens’ advocacy group, said creamy limestone fragments from the St. James church “were saved by parishioners, with a large stone cross now gracing someone’s backyard.” At This Brooklyn Church, Everything Must Go 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The intriguing narrative fragments are meant to mirror the scatter and chaos of the city, but they fail to hold together in the end. Katy Simpson Smith’s ‘The Story of Land and Sea,’ and More 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

In “The Daily Henry James,” relations begin nowhere: the fragments have no connection to one another, and don’t add up to any meaningful narrative. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Feathers and cuneiform letters are chiselled into other fragments. In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ted Hughes's unfinished Crow poems are a dark, gurgling exploration of birth, death and the quest for love, taking the form of a fragmented and epic folk story. Crow – review 2012-06-25T17:22:12Z

Tyson’s research, which involved close study of the manuscript paper Mozart used, suggested that one of the fragments, 34 dusky bars in the key of A, was from 1784. Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Half an hour later I emerged from the sauna, covered in leaf fragments. The wood life: my four days immersed in Latvia's forests 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

It was better to let the gestures wash over like poetic fragments: lost in translation, yet full of passion. Review: The Soundless Gestures of Francisca Benitez’s Dance on the High Line 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

These are fragments, fits and starts, with even rambling tunes such as "Walkabout" drifting and burbling. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

The political events of the ’60s, especially the Vietnam War but also the period’s assassinations and civil rights protests, weakened trust in public institutions and fragmented the New Deal coalition. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s about fragments of chambers and of buildings constructed from the earth,” he said, “that were the backdrop to the life of Black people.” ackNew Gagosian Director Spotlights Black Artists Involved in Social Change 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

As forests become fragmented, the birds are forced into smaller and smaller areas. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

After his No. 1 on“Still,” Richie pitched his next ballad, a fragment for which he had only the opening word — “lady” — and then the melody of the verse. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Moyra Davey’s 50 photographs of inconsequential details of her living space record fragments of a present similar to the one most people inhabit but rarely examine so closely. Art in Review: ?TIME AGAIN? 2011-07-07T21:00:31Z

The scene clearly depicts two large balls of light passing almost horizontally across the night sky, followed by a series of smaller fragments. Scientists identify meteor event in Walt Whitman poem 2010-06-05T01:01:00Z

“She creates these new whole individuals from fragmented parts as a way to tell her own story.” A Dream Deferred, for Now 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

He said that the artist appreciated the sounds of street activity and fragments of conversation that would trickle in to the studio. Sally Mann Turns Her Lens to Friendship and Loss 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But with the shared experience of Beats 1, we're meant to listen together minus the fragmented self-determination that drives so much of our music consumption today. So Apple Music is really a return to radio, right? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The first program Thursday included three fragments, each just shy of half an hour, in various states of completion and polish. REDCAT opens new work festival with a theme of displacement 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

It is written in fragments, in phrases of disgust and despair and recrimination, annotated with specific dosage numbers for prescription drugs used to treat depression. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Sooner rather than later, the political class will fragment and new leaders will emerge who will demand that the country exit the euro. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z

I could tell you about all of the tiny fragments that led me to our house’s backyard, where I clutched a patio chair and told Matt he had to listen. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

“I do think most families are complicated and built from all of these fragmented other places, but we’d rather not think of it that way,” she says. She lost her husband, her father and a pregnancy at 31. Now she’s helping others explore grief. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Here and there, like postcards stuck on a cluttered backdrop, fragments of the old picturesque Italy hang on.” ‘Italian Ways’: a not-quite-travel book on Italy’s railroads 2013-07-24T22:09:41Z

As in the earlier book, the new one takes you on a tour of places – Preston, Leicester, Cumbernauld – whose touching fragments of dignity are under relentless assault from the same Blairite junk that Meades hates. Best architecture books of 2012 2012-12-01T10:00:01Z

The result is a scattershot amalgam of songs, some complete, some fragments, some intercut with others from the same show or different ones. ‘Sondheim on Sondheim’: A Broadway baby in symphonic clothes 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The chorus and orchestra sang just the opening fragment of the “Lacrimosa,” the last bit of the Requiem Mozart composed before he died. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

The large fragment, weighing several hundred kilograms, was a surprising find. New Jerusalem find may shed light on Jewish revolt against Romans 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The most haunting shot was of a fragment of a pulverised washing-up-liquid bottle. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z

Sometimes, a handful of tiny sad moments are enough to indicate that a relationship is fragmenting. The moment our marriage was over: 'I saw a complete lack of kindness' 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

In the National Gallery in London, you can see Edouard Manet's 1867-8 The Execution of Maximilian – or at least fragments of it. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

In a grotto-style hall assembled for the show and decorated with fragments of mirrors, Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri reasserted her stamp on the French fashion house on the one-year anniversary of her arrival. Playful Dior brightens Paris Fashion Week with mirrors and mosaics 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

A famous example is Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor, who was inspired by Michelangelo’s unfinished works, specifically sculptural fragments of torsos and limbs and the “Slaves” originally planned for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Art Review: Works by Rachel Kneebone at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-04-05T22:06:34Z

As if to test the natural limits of ceramic technology, one of the figures, fired as a single piece rather than in sections, exploded in the kiln and had to be pieced together from fragments. The Art of Della Robbia: From Earth and Water, Pure Beauty 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

It turns out that Turpin is nearly always endearingly drunk and regularly given to quoting fragments of old poetry. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the two songs called “Hope,” the music sought to bind fragments of association, litanies of the different kinds of hope and the different sustenances they offer. Review | A black tenor shows two sides of his identity on recital stage 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

It is a fragment from the full-scale cartoon that he used for transferring the outlines of the design onto the painted fresco. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z

The museum exhibit contains, along with tables, chairs and bedsteads, a few architectural fragments and a reproduction of an 1850s parlor that he built for a tobacco farmer. Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z

Call me soft on theory, but what I look for in a work of literature is not ideological purity — Is it fragmented enough? ‘How Literature Saved My Life’: big questions on truth, fiction and the information stream 2013-02-07T21:51:39Z

The parade cuirass carved with the chariot of the Sun god and two winged victories flanking a trophy show that the monumental fragment was once part of an imperial statue of the first century A.D. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z

But they’re fragments of an immense figure, a full-size replica of the Statue of Liberty that he had cast, piecemeal, in China. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z

Then I roll around in them, crushing them into tiny fragments, which I then lick up off the tiles. New year raises the eternal question: is it possible to live a life without crisps? 2013-01-13T00:05:38Z

The Cage “Four Walls” music is sparse and lucid, seemingly built of short phrases and reiterations, often tracing single-note phrases in the right hand that are like fragments of melody. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z

"Pieces of a Woman" is demanding film, told in fragments. In "Pieces of a Woman," Vanessa Kirby survives the worst in a heartbreaking, measured performance 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The grid is revealed as an organizing principle but also a fragmenting one, resisting wholeness. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

The way the comedian ties this textured piece together with several of the show's earlier fragments is masterful, clever and embracing. Gabriel Iglesias in 'The Fluffy Movie,' good fun, standard film 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

At 28 feet wide — and then still just a fragment of the full floor — the bear hunt mosaic from a villa outside Naples, Italy, was plainly designed to impress. Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The artist, however, says gun fragments were always part of the work. Roundup: Greek crisis hits museums, Shepard Fairey arrested, Cosby's art controversy 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Alade’s songs tend to be short, and in concert, they were sometimes fragmented. Review | In concert, Yemi Alade shows her audience, and her homeland, some love 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

“I run to find fragments of my own parents sprinkled over the earth.” Running Thousands of Miles in Search of Yourself 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

“Ideally the stones would survive the fire,” she said, “but they’ll fragment.” Hurry to see a cemetery while you still can appreciate it, says author Loren Rhodes 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

There is also a Japanese Buddhist funeral ritual for Ogawa’s father, in which some spectators may choose to take part, using chopsticks to pick ersatz bone fragments out of his imaginary ashes. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

In overlapping textures, the words “he was” are turned into a two-note musical mantra, prolonged with gently clashing sustained intervals, spun into fragments of melodic lines. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘love fail,’ performed by Anonymous 4 2012-12-07T21:17:10Z

The focus on Voigt as the target of social injustice is fragmented. The Captain of Köpenick; Pierrepoint: The Hangman's Tale – review 2013-02-10T00:05:21Z

But I'd like to get back into television, because I think that even though, as diminished, as fragmented as it is, it still is a powerful messenger. D.L. Hughley: The ultimate Black superhero would have the power "to make white people believe him" 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Last Wednesday, the artist transferred the intellectual property rights of his sculpture to the Dakotas, who at that time stated their plan to burn its fragments at Fort Snelling, in a healing ceremony. Dakota People Are Debating Whether to Burn ‘Scaffold’ Fragments 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

From there, he blurs the line between intelligible text and elusive textual fragment, just as Silesius’s words blur the distinction between God and the self. Review: Works by Stefano Gervasoni at Miller Theater 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

But the track soon takes glorious flight, immediately locking into the fragmented, postmodern rock of the band’s heyday. Bloc Party Returns to Punk Roots with Four 2012-08-21T16:30:20Z

He's the ringleader of a circus that concocts frisky, barely glued-together aural canvasses out of non-linear fragments, clattering effects and staggered spurts. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

The office cited as evidence old Polaroids of some of the fragments that had been taken prior to their arrival at the Met. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

But on a tour of his Brooklyn town house, a fragmented Sallean narrative emerged through three things he chose: a plastic anteater, a sheet metal spiral and a ceramic vase. Possessed: A Narrative Has Many Blanks 2011-05-27T22:07:35Z

In the instrumental music that sets the scene, the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” pokes through, though it is fragmented, given contrapuntal twists and harmonized with “wrong note” chords. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

The cultural community is fragmented, and politicians are fond of the divide-and-rule strategy. Response: Arts organisations cannot do without marketing and fundraising 2010-07-29T23:05:00Z

Evoking London streets, a country manor, an opium den and other locales, tall sliding mesh panels serve as screens for projected gray-toned images: chimneys, spinning train wheels, wallpaper patterns, fragments of newspaper headline. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

In this sense, the flashbacks, most of which are from her point of view, serve as fragments of a puzzle that you slowly piece together, at least in part. | 'White Material': Hanging on for a Dear Way of Life 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z

And Berger’s “Intermezzo,” written for him, was a lovely, questioning and open-ended exploration carried out in probing fragments. In Pedja Muzijevic’s recital, talk gets in the way of ‘Haydn Dialogues’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Kang originally thought to call the piece “time signature,” but when he pondered how fragmented and isolated people are, he decided what was really needed was “time medicine.” Eyvind Kang: Prolific musician searches for spiritual sustenance 2013-02-28T23:06:23Z

A towering wall of rotating stone funerary stele fragments welcomes visitors. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The story of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy is hard to tell because they left so few fragments of it behind. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

To the fragment keeper any such reminder might stop them in their tracks. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

When we reinvent the future we somehow rebuild the fragments of the past. | YSL Manifesto 2011-02-28T19:30:33Z

Ostensibly an espionage thriller told through the fragmented biography of an operative known only as the Agent, “eL/Aficionado” is the second installment in the tetralogy “Now Eleanor’s Idea.” Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Instead, in this case they collected all these fragments out of thin air with a provenance that had no details” beyond the names of the immediate suppliers. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike the seamless environment you generally see in video games, Ms. Rossin’s includes lots of white space; objects and fragmented forms float within it, occasionally disintegrating. Museum & Gallery Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

While the other three characters in the play are given to well-formed sentences and occasional speeches, Terry speaks mostly in fragments and leans frequently into pauses as he struggles to express deep-seated anger and self-loathing. Jake Gyllenhaal Makes New York Stage Debut 2012-08-23T12:00:00Z

Where Mr. Oliveira perceives deep and sometimes tragic continuities between antiquity and the present, Mr. Godard finds fragments, including splinters of the lost dreams of modernity alluded to in his film’s title. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z

Their movement made the rafts gently travel; the ripples in the water fragmented the reflections of the sunset. Trisha Brown Dances Animate a Scottish Landscape 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

The final visual element is the trio of wing-shaped wooden structures — two resting on the ground and one hanging from the rigging above, like a fragment of a Calder mobile. Sculpting With Bodies at American Ballet Theater 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

One is a frenzied, fragmented style of publication, which seems desperate to reassure its readers that it is as newsy and dynamic as the Internet. Design: Four Examples of Quietly Excellent Design 2011-05-08T19:30:06Z

What fragment of our motor vocabulary — a walk, a hair flip — equals identity? Perspective | ‘Fortnite’ fight: Can a rapper claim a dance? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

But small fragments are also held in other European museums. Italy sending Parthenon fragment to Athens in nudge to UK 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

His latest appeal asked the court to review three issues: failure to disclose evidence, the destruction of bone fragments and ineffective assistance of counsel. Court hands ‘Making a Murderer’ subject Avery latest defeat 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

On a shelf are fragments of carvings of female swimmers that fell apart; beavers absconded with pieces for use in a nearby dam. An Artist’s Maine Menagerie, as Enduring (and Elusive) as Wildlife 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Both the actual anointing and the virtual fragmenting of his face represent the fluidity of existence. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The faces and fragments are there, in a workaround that translates the far-off blur of the 1960s into a 21st-century digital grid. For Pop Music, 2021 Was the Year of the Deep Dive 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

Because he’s closer to autobiography than anything else in the play — everyone else is pieces, figments, fragments. Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

I understand the concern that social media algorithms have fragmented society, and that as well as showing you slightly too many kitten gifs they might be destroying democracy. Get out of my echo chamber. It's cosy in here 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a loaded word, obviously, but I think it’s the best way to describe the religious landscape in America today: Diverse, fragmented, polarized, and yet Christ-haunted all the same. ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z

It is all broken planes, fragmented words, a battlefield of difficulties. Leonard Lauder's $1bn gift to Met gives new lease of life to cubism 2013-04-10T15:08:08Z

As alluring as the fleeting fragments of inspiration may be, they’re subordinate to the purpose of the great, big, perfected, enduring—and impossible—work. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Vinceti's press conference today at which a purported fragment of Caravaggio's skull was displayed on a silk red cushion could not have been better timed. The mystery of Caravaggio's death solved at last ? painting killed him 2010-06-16T21:21:00Z

In 2012, Karen King, one of the country’s most renowned religion scholars, rocked the Christian world by revealing an ancient fragment of papyrus that contains the phrase, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

The fragment remains, however – and will quite likely find new life next time we present the performance. Tim Etchells on performance: Improv storytelling's peculiar joy 2010-04-13T11:42:00Z

Like most of Feldman’s works, this soft-spoken composition uses minimal, spare gestures and notes: just gentle cluster chords and fragments. Conor Hanick Plays Contemporary Work at Keyboard Institute 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Shimmering, seething orchestral textures underlie fragments of Edward Said’s writings on separation and reconciliation and long lists of businesses passed as you drive through New Haven to the university. Music Review: Turning 150, but Youthful as Ever 2011-04-13T00:13:47Z

The death of each person who actually knew Monroe drives her further into the realm of myth; but our connection to her endures in these tangible fragments. Up close with Marilyn: the things she touched, the clothes she wore, the way she looked 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

With typical economy, he did “something else” with the wax work, creating six smaller, exquisite two-sided relief fragments in bronze, aluminum and even silver that conflate painting, sculpture and printmaking in a new way. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z

Fragmentary and overlapping, the choreography both echoes and amplifies the music, which itself overlays fragments of sound, occasionally stopping dead then beginning again, sometimes using the bows of the string instruments as percussive tools. Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Accordingly, when they first encounter each other in Ray’s office building, where Una has tracked him down after seeing his picture in a trade magazine, they talk in spasmodic fragments. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

This late medieval fragment would still look miraculous. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z

Last year, on the eve of his 90th birthday, Phillips asked that the fragment be returned to the care of English Heritage, a conservation charity which looks after the ancient stones. Missing piece of Britain's ancient Stonehenge returned after 60 years 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

What they found were Lil Peep’s complete recordings — some finished, some in fragments; some heard and familiar, many not. Lil Peep Died Before Becoming Pop Royalty. His New Music May Change That. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

As the tragic Leonora, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers offers a soprano of huge potential, her voice's generous richness of timbre occasionally offset by fragmented phrasing, but a great performance lies within her grasp. La Forza del Destino 2010-07-28T20:29:00Z

“Disjointed,” whose first 10 episodes appear Friday, is at least an interesting example of the odd place Netflix occupies in the fragmented TV universe. Review: ‘Disjointed’ Is One Buzzkill of a Pot Comedy 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Soon, fragments of themes and a mournful solo cello line try to emerge into something definitive. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

At its strongest, the composer’s instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism is broken up intriguingly with jagged, fragmented melodic phrases. Music Review | Dicapo Opera Theater: Boy Is Ensnared in 19th-Century Papal Politics 2010-02-26T22:20:00Z

More recently, word of the fragment began to trickle out. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Only a fragment of the museum’s recent history is explained on the walls of the exhibition, however. The Prado Museum, Spain’s Cultural Jewel, Turns 200 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

It wandered through harmonic possibilities with Chopinesque grace, until he seized on a melodic fragment, a hint of a folk dance, that he extended and transposed, eventually dissolving it in trills. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z

“The first three fragments are not going to be of great value,” Bogdanos said. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

TikTok can make a song incredibly popular overnight; it can also very often divorce a song, or even fragments of a song, from its larger context. Beach Bunny Is Building an Indie-Rock Career in a Time of TikTok 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Because the much wilder and fragmented “Finally Unfinished” begins, as a camera follows the cool fire of Melissa Toogood into the wings. Review: Finding Hope in an Unfinished Pam Tanowitz Premiere 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

Overall the fragments of back stories in this episode seemed more dynamic and more tragic. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a transitional, fragmented episode built around narrative red herrings. Review: ‘Sherlock’ Returns, Tracking a Smasher of Thatcher Busts 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The character of Patty came fairly early on, from a fragment of a suburban woman's autobiography that hadn't made it into The Corrections, and from there the book began to take shape. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

I saw God in the cursive sparseness, the cracked and fragmented verses, the elliptical themes, jumping from story to lesson to consolation to consternation to contemplation. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

The projections, which at times become fragmented and stacked in two layers, are accompanied by the sound of the artist’s movements and his surrounding studio. From Bruce Nauman, More Contrapposto Studies 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The artist did and undid the project in 2013, but it survives in photographs, prints and a small sculpture that includes a fragment of the house. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

In short, I'm at 7,000ft where the air is thin and water boils too quickly to make you a nice restorative cuppa and am writing to you from a fragment of my former self. A happy ending to my American tour 2010-10-19T09:57:00Z

The more time you spend with it, though, the more continuity emerges — and not just because the bioprinted ear echoes the wax facial fragments she made in the ’60s. Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Artist Is Prescient 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Experimenting with tape loops, he discovered what he subsequently dubbed “phasing” when he accidentally let two identical tape fragments gradually drift out of sync. Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Even in today’s fragmented media landscape, “Jeopardy!” continues to have broad appeal, pulling in an average weekly audience of 24 million viewers. Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Chasin, whose faculty bio notes an interest in “the limits of sense; white space; repetition; and fragments,” adapted the piece from one of her own courses. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

A video created by Serino Coyne shows him in his studio cutting, sanding and assembling multicolored fragments of wood into a larger piece that spells out the name of the show. ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' 2012-02-09T18:25:10Z

Ask for a tour of the glittering private dining room upstairs, with silver-backed chairs under chandeliers and a ceiling embellished with mirror fragments. 36 Hours in Jaipur 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The mood turned more meditative in the comparatively subdued middle section, but the transporting thrill of the opening returned at the end: first in fragments, then full force. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

When he’s answering questions, there’s both deliberation and fluidity in his speech — he’ll repeat fragments until he finds the way forward. At home with her memory 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Knowledge of the past, especially the ancient past, always rests on fragments, shaped powerfully by contingency. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mysteriously, a small silver box resting atop Archer’s coffin is probably a Catholic reliquary containing bone fragments and a container for holy water. Bones of early American leaders identified at Jamestown site 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

In January they released a photograph of a casket fragment marked with the initials "M.C." in metal tacks.  The long-lost remains of Miguel de Cervantes have been found 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Extreme imbalance colors the plot threads unspooling after Arabella's assault, with her moods becoming more erratic as fragments of memory return. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

The waltz fragments were encoded into an iPad app, which presents them in random order, and for unpredictable lengths of time. Music Review: Kevin James and [kaj] Take John Cage as Inspiration 2012-08-22T22:21:19Z

It also includes a bronze sculpture of Reagan as a cowboy by caricaturist Patrick Oliphant and a fragment of the Berlin Wall. Portrait Gallery opens exhibit on President Reagan 2011-07-01T10:53:09Z

Some of it resembled bebop, but of a fragmented, idiosyncratically-paced variety. Great moments in jazz: Ornette Coleman defines the Shape of Jazz to Come 2010-07-23T15:02:00Z

“We are fragmented as a community because there are all different kind of disabilities,” said Christine Bruno, an actor and disability inclusion consultant who lives with cerebral palsy. Analysis | How Scarlett Johansson and Dwayne Johnson represent Hollywood’s uneven strides toward inclusivity 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

But it’s there, a bit, in Middle Kingdom art, in a tiny pottery figurine of a distraught mourner, in a fragment of battle-scene relief in which human limbs rain from the sky. An Ancient Egyptian Show That’s Low on Bling but High on Beauty 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The book takes the form of an overstuffed scrapbook, jammed with letters, photographs, official documents and fragments from her uncle’s childhood journals — doodles of flowers, flags and swastikas. A Visual Memoir Asks What It Means for Germany to Reckon With Its Past 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Slowly, the cup was coming into focus as the fragments arrived. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Burt Lancaster's projection of success slowly fragments over a day of suburban splashing in Frank Perry's The Swimmer. Clip joint: swimming pools 2010-09-08T15:58:00Z

“I found that phrases or even fragments of phrases in songs would catch me in a different way because now it was about him,” he continued. Impromptu Sondheim Wakes Fill Piano Bars With Tears and Tunes 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

Only two were finished — “The Apostles” and “The Kingdom,” leaving “The Last Judgment” only as fragments — and completing even those contributed to Elgar’s declining religious faith. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Those things that I feared when I picked up the novelist’s pen — that fragmented randomness of collective hopelessness that I could see overtaking the youth of Palestine — is being borne out today. Both sides of the knife: When we speak about Palestinian violence, we ought to do so in the context of “the ongoing and daily oppression faced by some 4 million people” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

First, unlike a story or essay, conventionally expected to add up in a way that makes sense, the diary lets fragments float. Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t connect the dots and instead allows you to consider each narrative fragment, every seemingly atomized scene, before moving toward the pointillist whole. Movie Review: Philippe Garrel’s ‘Burning Hot Summer,’ With Monica Bellucci 2012-06-28T23:21:23Z

Mr. Ferver and especially Ms. Mola wore these fragments easily as they flitted about the small white room Saturday night, the lights of New York shining through the museum’s panoramic windows. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11?s ?Me, Michelle? and ?Antigone Jr.? - Review 2011-11-16T23:59:21Z

You make so many sacrifices to make a record, you have to delve within yourself to pull out fragments and fossils to make songs from! Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z

A marble fragment of a Palestinian tombstone features the familiar hexagram and would have decorated a Muslim grave. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

He calls it “too big, too fragmented, too complicated, and too little endowed with a sense of common heritage.” A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z

“Emotion’s not at all like that. Better to hold onto memories in fragments, better to stop and circle back each time you feel the lump rise in your throat.” This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The Canadian mezzo-soprano Layla Claire, in the role of Venus, spent so much time walking around her house while practicing rapid Italian phrases that her two young daughters started repeating fragments of the libretto. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trump spoke in direct, punchy sentences and fragments: “Typical politician. All talk, no action. Sounds good, doesn’t work.” How the Split Screen Framed Trump and Clinton 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, he will be remembered as a victim of circumstances and of fragmented, competing factions, as a pontiff plagued by scandals, mistakes and gaffes. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

"We both had idea fragments about our early 8-mm days, using friends to act and crew our movies," Spielberg says. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z

While these references can seem too directly proselytising, they are quickly subsumed into the dazzling theatricality of this piece, as Tino uncovers yet another fragment of memory. Silent – review 2012-06-07T13:46:34Z

Condensing any 50-year-old scene down into an hour – particularly one as nuanced and fragmented as British reggae – is always going to lead to a degree of oversimplification. Reggae Britannia rediscovers Britain's soul 2011-02-18T11:29:18Z

The performance involved fragments of various Baroque works grouped around the theme of astronomy. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z

“The Travelers,” from 1961, shows a visually fragmented family in a train station — continuing a theme from “The Migration Series,” which remained, throughout his long prolific life, his masterpiece. Oh, the humanity: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series,’ reunited 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The song fragments — carefully pieced together, balancing tempos and musical keys and biblical themes in the lyrics — are a reminder of the profound and fundamental human needs that only spiritual music can fully satisfy. The Museum of the Bible: The last place in D.C. you might expect to hear Queen, Kanye and the Clash 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

His fragments of writing and painted-over pieces of paper are beautified, peaceful versions of those forms. Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery 2010-04-08T20:16:00Z

As short as a line or as long as several paragraphs, a fragment could be potent and pointed, delivering a punch of sentiment without the persuasive padding required of more discursive forms. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Glenn Ligon, the New York artist, is best known for canvases stenciled with fragments of famous texts that explore the experience of being black, and some deliberately slide from legibility into abstraction. For Glenn Ligon, Home Is Where History and Friends Are Inspirations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Manhattan prosecutors believe the mosaic was taken from the museum before the fire, because it shows no sign of damage like the other fragments. A Remnant from Caligula’s Ship, Once a Coffee Table, Heads Home 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Alamy Czech sculptor David Černý’s rotating Kafka head has been dazzling Prague tourists since its May 2014 unveiling, and deservedly so: its fragmented metal parts brilliantly rippling to form the writer’s giant skull. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

And her songs, even the longer ones, are still written as clear, sharp fragments as Ms. Kline flaunts her emotional bruises. Review: Frankie Cosmos’s ‘Next Thing’ Captures Teenage Mystery in Bursts 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Ghost Town Trail, run by the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, offers a powerful sense of the past, even though there are only a few visible fragments of the 18th- and 19-century settlement remaining. Off-Season Hamptons: What to Do 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Crumb arranged fragments of those poems into five songs and two interludes that are something between a Bach cantata and an exotic ritual. Music Review: Opera Moderne?s ?Modern Tryst? at the Galapagos Art Space - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

The wood fragments from which "Eternity" was assembled were treated to look worn and decayed, as though they'd "gone through time and eternity." At Frye Art Museum: Li Chen and the 'beauty of imperfection' 2012-03-14T18:53:04Z

But he agreed that dealers would parcel out fragments over time, in part to ensure that prices would escalate as collectors or museums closed in on completing an object. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The tour’s goal, as Lyman has often said, was to create a community that would unite the fragmented punk landscape. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

The landscape is even more powerfully evoked than in the earlier book, and the sentences — pared-down fragments sometimes — have a different kind of urgency. The Family History Is Grim, but He?s Plotted a New Course 2011-01-14T22:35:51Z

One pull is abstraction: His newest video, “AGHDRA,” on view in the retrospective, is entirely computer-generated; its motif is oceanic, with waves that swell yet seem made of fragments, like lava. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

We stopped in the middle, high above the Thames and voiced the final fragments shored against Eliot's ruins. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z

Like the family it chronicles, “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is fragmented and contentious, with flashes of brilliance. Art Review: ?The Steins Collect,? Matisse and Picasso, at the Met 2012-03-01T23:11:06Z

“Bronx Floors,” from the Museum of Modern Art, is displayed on a pedestal against a wall, more like a relic than the still-shocking ready-made fragment that it is. Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The first part of the libretto is made up of a collage of his own writings and others’, such as a breakup letter mixed in with fragments of James Baldwin. Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

While the colors and scale are not as vibrant as in the quilts, they are pleasing fragments. Gee’s Bend Quilts in 2 Shows at Lehman College 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

It reads, “This above all:”—a fragment of a line from “Hamlet,” spoken by Polonius, the pedantic adviser to the King, to his son, Laertes. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Like many of her most admired original creations, it reanimates strategically chosen fragments of a sprawling literary monument few but scholars can find the time or stamina to read. Mary Zimmerman?s ?Armida,? With Ren?e Fleming, at Met 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z

Louis was one of the fathers of the Objectivist movement, which treated poems as abstract objects, pregnant with obscure images and fragmented lines and phrases. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

When the surgeons arrived, they cleared out the fragments, effected temporary repairs and stitched the wound. T Magazine: First Man Up 2011-03-08T14:00:35Z

Nurse Blake fits perfectly into the zeitgeist, not just because he understands that in a fragmented culture, telling jokes that capture something authentic about an underserved audience matters more than being understandable to everyone. How Can Standup Succeed in a Fragmented Culture? Nurse Blake Has One Answer 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

The contrasting colors and shapes were designed to attract the attention of menacing strikes, and then to distract them, because the fragmented pattern distorts the goalie’s silhouette. Design and the World Cup: Best and Worst 2010-06-27T22:00:00Z

Black-and-white projections of tree branches formed a fragmented, rustling backdrop. A Choreographer Who Merges Art, Activism and the Natural World 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Dead Sea Scrolls, composed of hundreds of manuscripts and thousands of fragments of ancient Jewish religious texts, were discovered in the West Bank by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s. U.S. Bible museum says five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments fake 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her work that threads through the ambrosial orchestration of Love This Giant at times represents the clutch edges and jagged fragments. David Bryne & St. Vincent Go Big with Love This Giant 2012-09-11T17:00:26Z

By far the most tantalizing fragment on display is a tile that contains part of the name “Caesar.” Journeys: Hotels Built on History in Italy, Quebec, Zanzibar, Macao 2010-05-07T18:02:00Z

Now they survive only as tattered fragments and in a few degraded woodcut editions that escaped the censor's hand. Are these Shakespeare's dirty pictures? 2010-12-10T13:46:00Z

The rise of urban multiplexes fragmented Indian cinema, creating a segmented market. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z

The coral restoration process is similar across all the resorts: broken but still-living coral fragments are attached to a frame, either metal or concrete, and the whole system is secured underwater. New Priority for Ocean Resorts: Restoring Reefs 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The same room also contains a stunning black-and-white film of Arab horses placed alongside a fragment of an Assyrian 9th-century BC limestone relief. The Horse: From Arabia to Royal Ascot – review 2012-05-26T23:05:41Z

It found, as first reported by National Geographic, that not only were the fragments fake, they were “deliberate forgeries created in the 20th century.” Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

And with this fragment the story will keep going. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z

Such is the complexity of genetics, however, that our understanding is still too fragmented. Eat more avocado! What I learned from the study that will change how we eat 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s like Michael Jackson’s moonwalk,” Jafa said, “where you’re moving one way but your body’s going another, but Story has figured out how to fragment it and play it along multiple axes.” Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Finally, if skull fragments are found, depending on how well-preserved they are, the group might attempt a facial reconstruction. Hunt is on for remains of possible Mona Lisa model 2011-04-05T13:36:55Z

“All Grown Up,” Attenberg’s latest book, is an inventive, funny, fragmented clutter. ‘All Grown Up,’ by Jami Attenberg, is an X-ray of Gen X life 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Inside lie fragments that allow her to resurrect her younger self: a diary whose entries often begin “Dear Page,” passages of the novel she’s trying to write, doodles and drawings. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Voices seem to fracture and fragment, in electronic layers of shouts and whispers. | 'Alexis. A Greek Tragedy': ?Alexis. A Greek Tragedy,? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-05T22:36:26Z

What followed was good noise: lots of gongs and cymbals, staccato flute and fragmented violin figures, as if the band were caught in a cyclone. Music Review: ‘Nous: A Musical Rite’ at Basilica Hudson 2014-02-02T22:41:38Z

The Rameau fragment returns in the piano, but as an imperfect recollection. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

These fragmented and parallel narratives — capturing Hardin’s work and his personal history — don’t hinder the book however. Review | In ‘Standpipe,’ David Hardin offers poignant, fleeting reflections on the Flint water crisis 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The museum, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would be sending another 11,500 artifacts — 5,000 papyri fragments and 6,500 clay objects — back to Iraq and Egypt because of “insufficient provenance.” Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

It was customary for Joyce to publish fragments of texts of work in progress," she said, "and he particularly relished publishing in fine press editions. James Joyce's 'last undiscovered' collection to be published 2013-06-14T08:30:00Z

What happens in “90 Ways to Wake From Drowning” unfolds as fragments of stories, then as multiple and serial repercussions of a single story. Dance Review: A. O. Collective?s ?90 Ways to Wake From Drowning? 2010-08-01T22:25:00Z

Ms. Carroll, accompanied on bass by Jay Leonhart, played a pianistic Sondheim suite whose songs, connected by a recurring fragment of the “Night Waltz” from “A Little Night Music,” evoked a whirling dance of life. Music Review: Nightclub Tradition Gets a Jolt Of Youth 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z

And yet his final work, for all that it is only a fragment, seems always to be moving effortlessly towards the light. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

In the end, as Jones shares fragmented stories from his life, he also expands that notion outward: We are the people we have known, even those who physically are no longer here. Review: Dancing Bodies That Contain Multitudes 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Their cries will fragment into separate, argumentative voices, each with its own thorny grievances, and they will run — not with, but away from, one another. Review: ‘The Fall’ Delivers Stirring Protest in South Africa 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Still, the fragmented and existential atmosphere, reminiscent of a Paul Auster novel, is an interesting reward for sticking with the tale. Review: ‘Reset,’ an Elliptical Tale of Breaking With the Past 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The piece is like a series of overlapping musical events in the process of disintegration: Brass riffs fragment; melodic lines turn diffuse; piercing sustained harmonies morph into hazy clusters; pulsing rhythms falter and fade. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Not What I Had in Mind, however, is a far more fragmented event than that, falling somewhere between lecture, performance and half-baked social experiment. Not What I Had in Mind 2010-04-20T21:00:00Z

The number has been banished, though the melody now turns up as a fragment in another number. At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway

A fragment of text was discernible in the sound score: “In a remote corner of the globe.” Dance Review: A Work Starts Onstage and Stops at the Subway 2011-04-29T22:09:55Z

Resembling a fragment of an ancient Greek sculpture, it’s mounted on a truncated pyramid, and the whole assemblage is coated in candy-purple auto body paint. Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

In the middle of the space, a wooden scaffold supports a fragmented bank of monitors. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Initially they look mostly blank — some have textures suggesting abstract painting, others have fragments of figures. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Chelsea 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But the court genre as a whole has been troubled, with viewers tiring of the repetitive formula and the daytime audience continuing to fragment. ‘Hot Bench,’ a Court Show From Judge Judy, Is a Surprise Hit 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Rarely do these fragments join into larger paragraphs; rarely do the dancers let rip into a full ensemble. Alonzo King Lines Ballet 2010-08-27T16:53:00Z

It’s difficult to create a fully formed character with the strictures Handler has imposed on himself, narrative fragments from a sex-obsessed high school student. Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

That etched fragment, the Rosetta Stone, allowed the French researcher Jean-François Champollion to decipher the writings of the ancient Egyptians two decades later — and open the doors to a world of knowledge and discovery. Off Frieze’s Beaten Path in London 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

The play takes the form of a series of linked fragments, some chilling, some uplifting, that tell the story of Ngwabeni's journey from football-loving tomboy to self-assured performer and gay activist. Ncasmisa! Kiss the Women calls shame on South Africa 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

From the fragment we intuit what was here before. Until Sorrow 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

She had to add two verses of her own to the song fragment “Blue Is My Heart,” on which her father, Hank Williams Jr., adds backup vocals. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z

Stains on the fragments actually helped the conservators; the lines showed how to reassemble pieces that had become somewhat jumbled in the salvaging process. Antiques: Museum Resurrects Tiffany?s Laurelton Hall 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z

In 1971, a team of French archaeologists discovered a sculpture in fragments at a site by the river Oxus in northern Afghanistan. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

The nation’s convoluted distribution system and fragmented taxation and regulatory structure allow Washington-area wine lovers to find bargains at stores in New Jersey or Chicago that are unavailable here. We’re buying more wine online. Cross your fingers that will lead to cheaper options. 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Perhaps inevitably: “To America” is composed, after all, from fragments. Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

But “Hope” proved how sitcoms can still matter; even in a time of fragmented audiences, they can connect. With Police Brutality Episode, ‘black-ish’ Shows How Sitcoms Can Still Matter 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

As he told CNN in an earlier interview, his family is still in Ukraine, and he had just learned that his grandmother had found rocket fragments in her backyard. Ukrainian Teenager Who Fled War Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

My father held up the fragments of the gray Picasso plate that he’d just unearthed from a box in my mother’s attic. The Art of Mending 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

On a stone table supported by carved griffins, fragments of other decorative stonework are placed. The joy — and challenges — of restoring a neoclassical horticultural ruin 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Unlike fragmented films such as "Memento" or "Inception," there's no DVD version of "Sleep No More." "Sleep No More": Shakespeare meets Internet games 2011-08-16T18:01:00Z

To museum-goers, he was beloved for his paintings, prints and drawings — surreal yet expressionist fragments of daily life in the Oaxacan country. Francisco Toledo Embodied the Activist Soul of Oaxaca 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

About 25,000 of the 27,000 fragments of rubble were reassembled with the help of Oppenheim's photo documentation of the excavation site, but she said there is little hope of putting together the rest. Statues devastated in WWII go on show in Berlin 2011-01-27T15:03:11Z

What it might say, when you gather the fragments of this studiously unsalacious film, is that the surest test of human connection is empathy. ‘Baby God’ Review: Sins of the Father 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Inside were only doodles and fragments, with no discernible order. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Those fragments coalesced gloriously in songs such as "Heroes and Villains," which an awe-struck Jimi Hendrix once described as "psychedelic barbershop music," and "Surf's Up." Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z

Jean-Michel Basquiat famously combined word fragments and images of street life and pop culture to comment on issues concerning race, class, and history. Inside the Mind of Jean-Michel Basquiat 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

"There is a lot going on and it is fragmented." SXSW goes high-tech to cut through media clutter 2011-03-22T19:15:18Z

His works feel unified because they are organized around small melodic fragments that gradually develop as they are passed from voice to voice. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Five lots of hand- and typewritten lyric fragments found inside the guitar case — early versions of some of Dylan’s legendary songs — also are being sold. Dylan’s Guitar From Newport To Be Auctioned in NYC 2013-10-31T18:44:25Z

The remains, including larger bone fragments, are poured into a pulverizer, the size of a regular blender. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z

Nearby, an automatic Disklavier piano produces an oddly lyrical cacophony: a fragment of music by Cage with its own sweetly disordered logic. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

There will be limited program notes in advance, little to guide listeners except their ears and eyes through a collagelike narrative arc assembled from musical fragments. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

He later disowned the book, telling the Paris Review that it was “really a fragment which was written for profit when I was very poor.” William Trevor, eminent Irish author of the darkly humorous, dies at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Perhaps we insist on usage norms to reclaim a lost sense of agency: These sentence fragments I have shored up against my ruin. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

“As if giant Jupiter burst into fragments, dust, new stars/Farther away from us -/Your fire trail a heavenly headliner.” Reactions to the death of Elaine Stritch 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

These ceramic tidbits — part of the hodgepodge of ancient fragments that the museum routinely collected — bore the unmistakable designs of ancient Greek pottery. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

What he's doing is controlling what happens when, how long each fragment or musical file-card lasts, the music's flow of ideas, of textures. A guide to John Zorn's music 2012-05-21T14:30:03Z

Alzheimer’s patients have clumps of sticky material made from protein fragments, called beta amyloid, in their brains. Can people catch Alzheimer’s? Possibility cannot be ruled out 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Punctuating the songs are enigmatic fragments of dialogue from the films. Music Review: ‘Ghosts of Love’ Evokes David Lynch’s Films 2014-01-21T19:18:39Z

In all, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain some 900 manuscripts composed of a few complete scrolls and tens of thousands of fragments. One of earliest known copies of Ten Commandments sees the light of day 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The profane text they sing is a fragmented, stream-of-consciousness poem, drawing perhaps from dreams. Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

“Loose Connection,” which Mr. Conrad made in 1973 and resurrected last year, documents Conrad family life but, filmed with a rotating camera, chops domestic scenes into vertiginous fragments. Art In Review: TONY CONRAD: ‘Doing the City: Urban Community Interventions’ 2012-09-27T20:03:03Z

Fattahi shows fragments of her own life in Vienna—in the kitchen, in the courtyard, in the street—where she undertakes the exposure of the Syrian war’s machinery of death. A Syrian Filmmaker’s Urgent, Intimate View of Exile Deserves a U.S. Release 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Because she sang only a fragment of the song, or at least that’s all that was shown. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: A Bit of Magic Amid the Clunkers 2011-09-23T15:24:47Z

"Tweet it, Facebook it.... I would think don't tape the whole thing for YouTube, but fragments are good ... bits that tantalize people and make them want to buy the book." 'Middleman': The post-corporate in-person table-read reunion 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Survivors of assault “are asked to provide an unassailable narrative when the event itself is hazy, fragmented, and unspeakable.” Lena Dunham and the challenges of memoir 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

This is just a small fragment of Lai’s extravagant narrative, whose charm and fascination lie in its countless subtle details and improbable propulsive thrust — as in “A Thousand and One Nights.” Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

One brought back a few fragments of human bone. Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones 2012-06-09T23:07:18Z

Flickering, fragmented, stifled, wavering, twisting, turning — this impression, more than any particulars of plot or character, is what makes “Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight” memorable. A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists and Turns 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The makeover features more natural light, new colors and the reappearance of Rodin’s personal art collection, which also includes ancient Greek sculpture fragments. Recasting Rodin’s Life and Work 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Here’s just a fragment from one of hers: “a meridienne, banquette, pouf, ottoman, ear, stile, cross rail, stretcher, cross stretcher, crinoline stretcher, cornice, top rail, diamond point.” For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Clarinet, horn and viola fragments grew increasingly agitated in another of Dante’s texts, culminating in a dense outburst for the soprano’s apocalyptic declamation of “Now you can understand.” Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

The reality scenes in particular evoke the fragmented, impressionistic style of Terrence Malick’s recent films, from “The Tree of Life” onward. ‘The Place of No Words’ Review: Shared Illusions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Finally, the whole orchestra joined in, playing sputtering rhythms, tart harmonies and thematic fragments that coalesced into melodic lines. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

They range from a bust of Akhenaton himself, through fragments from the workshop where Nefertiti was found, to remains of ancient Egyptian homes. Berlin marks centenary of Nefertiti bust's find 2012-12-05T15:57:08Z

He strongly opposed the neoliberal political movement of the 1990s and advocated social movement against globalization, which he said fragments society and fosters individualism. Sociologists Bauman, Touraine win Spanish award 2010-05-27T16:31:00Z

“This should raise many thousands of dollars for the university, rather like selling fragments of the True Cross.” They’re trying to deify Ronald Reagan: Inside the right-wing plot to turn the Gipper into a modern-day God 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

“If you want to be French today, a fully French citizen, you have to give up one of the fragments of your identity,” she said. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

It was dedicated to short, dark, funny things, serendipitous asides, strange fragments. Talking with J. Robert Lennon about Okey-Panky 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Here is a fragment of their ‘cultural offerings,” he wrote, linking to the trailer. Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' TV series lambasted for promoting Venezuela... 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

In a world where things are fragmented, it's difficult to find people. Pandora founder pursues bigger piece of radio pie 2010-07-10T02:39:00Z

The Exploration Society had, decades ago, provisionally dated the fragment with the Gospel text attributed to Mark to the late first or early second century. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Regardless, the biscotti-like fragments made for a fine sweet nothing to nibble on with tea and coffee. Dorie Greenspan’s ‘Baking Chez Moi,’ reviewed: It’s no mere puff project

Amongst the items recovered were decorated vases, coins and fragments of ancient buildings. Italian police seize stolen artifacts, private museum 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Baltimore artist presents simulated fragments of suburban life, hinting at the larger simulation practiced by the developers of instant “communities.” In the galleries: Gunpowder and teddy bears 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

"You're losing your edge," his contact tells him, a sentiment so hoary it plays less like a line of dialogue than a fragment of collage. "The American": George Clooney's killer trip through Italy 2010-09-01T15:02:00Z

The second movement is thick with hazy, chromatic harmonies and a piano melody that evolves in spiraling fragments. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z

Her mind races more and more as the novel progresses, and a more fragmented version of her psyche takes over in the second half after a tragedy blindsides the already shaky family. A Debut Novel Sees Divorce Through the Eyes of a Child 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

In 1936, the Fascist government built a museum to display the artifacts, including the complete mosaic and a few other smaller fragments, according to experts. A Remnant from Caligula’s Ship, Once a Coffee Table, Heads Home 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

In its museum, you’ll see scorched and melted fragments demonstrating the heat of the firestorm. Discovering ‘undiscovered’ Hamburg 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, though one thing she has done over and over again through her science-fictionally fragmented history is to die to save the Doctor, Clara's fate is not as decided as all that. TV Picks: 'Powerless,' 'Craft,' 'Who,' 'PuppyCat,' 'Garden Wall' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The family lore about my grandmother’s short life was a spare mix of sad and inspiring fragments. Provoking discussion, not riots: Sandow Birk’s “American Qur’an” is quietly transgressive, eschewing the satirical depictions of the Prophet Muhammad that grab headlines 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Some of us try to jury-rig meaningful lives using the disheartening fragments at our disposal; others dream of wiping the slate clean and starting anew. 'Bright New Boise' at Chance Theater: Secrets and scandal in the break room of Hobby Lobby 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Drowning in information, he realized that the show would be about “exploring my own archive,” he said, even though it’s fragmented. ‘Artists Are Migrants’: A Nigerian-Irish Dancer’s Multiplicities 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Instead of conventional symphonic development and recapitulation, it's a very cellular song of fluorescing fragments: a concentrated "cloud of knowing" – the product of a mind in visionary mode. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The package includes an LP and 10 photographic prints, encouraging a tactile, track-by-track experience: a film in fragments, or maybe a high-concept slide show with no projector. Releases From Ghostface Killah, Fred Hersch and More 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Everybody knows those TV series, Mr. Sloane said, whereas “after the ‘80s, the audience became more fragmented” and shows from the 1990s and later would probably not elicit the same response from viewers. Publishers Clearing House Imagines Handing a Big Check to Gilligan and Mike Brady 2013-05-06T13:00:01Z

During the visit, she offered fragmented memories of her childhood in an orphanage in Washington and of her old apartment near the Russian Embassy, where she lived until moving in with Mr. Wells. Jacqueline Kennedy’s Notes for Dallas Are Found, Starting a Quiet Tug of War 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

In “The Lost Carving” he describes analyzing photographs and singed fragments of the room and learning to sand with bits of a scratchy wetlands plant called Dutch rush. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z

Track titles such as "NoSleep", "TaxiTaxi" and "Girls" set the tone, and sharply plucked strings combine with double bass and piano fragments to create momentum. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z

And I found myself thinking of the delightful fragmented meditations of Ms. Ruhl’s book “100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write.” Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

A fragmented, incantatory immersion in clinical depression, filled with descriptions of psychotropic drugs, sets of numbers, angry rants and stark wordplay, the script specifies neither characters nor precise plot, nor even the number of performers. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

And when the Armory invited Mr. Jones to create a new, socially distanced production, these choreographic fragments became the basis for that work. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s partly about grappling with gender and trying to assert it or undermine it or play with it or fragment it or resist it. A memoir of female lust 2013-06-09T00:00:00Z

“What perfect unity there is in this fragment,” he marveled. ‘Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece’ Review: Recasting History 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Within 75 to 100 years, the remains of bones could be nothing more than fragments or even just stains in the ground. What lies beneath: Searching for the bones of Yarrow Mamout, a turn-of-the-19th-century Georgetown celebrity 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

But in those little bottles and jars are fragments of a social contract, elixirs of reassurance, drops of pure pleasure — and in the case of Fashion Fair, a good bit of proud history. What happened to Fashion Fair? Why the black cosmetics brand is so hard to find. 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Following the Seventh Symphony fragment, composer/pianist/arranger Joachim Horsley took the stage to do his own version of the second movement, as a sort of piano concerto a la cubana. Review | Ben Folds’s second Kennedy Center concert features . . . everything 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t the easiest of sessions: As we recorded the final song, fireworks started going off next door and we had to piece it together in fragments. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Another guitarist, Mary Halvorson, managed to sound smiling and sober at once, with melodies of glittering sensitivity that fragmented into kaleidoscopic phrases. The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

In some respects, “Rocket Man” is a song of fragments. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The figure stands before an image of a lynching and atop a washboard bearing a fragment of a poem by Langston Hughes: “I’ve been a victim: The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.” Betye Saar's gun-totin' mammies turn stereotype into power at the Craft & Folk Art Museum 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

His gaze is away from the Eurostar trains and their passengers as they glide forth now to a different, more fragmented Europe. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

His new dance creates a fragmented world, in which the performers engage in continually shifting transformations. A Dance of Vaporizing Bodies, With a Nod to Butoh 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

I had these fragments and ideas of chord movements, improvisations, and some voicings that we hadn’t used before — slightly spiky, fourths and sixths rather than thirds and fifths. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

They would send song fragments back and forth, letting their ideas marinate before building off each other’s work. This chaotic duo sounds like nothing and everything you’ve ever heard 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Piperno ties together these three settings — the village, the ship and the apartment — with an eye for how perspective can shape space, gesturing toward the mysterious interconnectedness of our fragmented world. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

His father was an enthusiastic home-movie maker, and much of the footage he shot would reappear in “Trying to Kiss the Moon,” Stephen’s 1994 film constructed as fragments of autobiography. Stephen Dwoskin, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 73 2012-07-22T02:44:24Z

Its brightly painted lines of play are fragmented and rearranged into a dynamic abstract composition. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

But other fragments were too small to track, yet still posed a danger to the space station as well as orbiting satellites. Space junk from Russian weapons test causes ISS astronauts to seek shelter 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

A wall folds open like a spreading hand fan while cityscapes fragment into whirring, shifting fractal forms. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In the opening moments of the demo that she originally submitted to Ms. Plexus, Ms. Kirsten said she “was using phonemes to improvise this little fragment that repeated over and over.” Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Psychologically layered, peppered with lies and evasions, this is a relationship study whose fragmented, circular structure obscures more than you might expect. ‘The Approach’ Review: Three Women and the Men Who Define Them 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

Dealers, these experts said, are typically rivals unlikely to conspire with competitors, but capable of letting fragments become separated in the tumult of a busy workshop. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

In a medley of fragments from “West Side Story,” every phrase was packed with so much strenuous acting that you barely noticed that they were fragments. Music Review: Former One-Hit Wonder Shows His Staying Power 2011-04-20T21:15:08Z

The results, while pithy, are thoughtful and often inventively offbeat, counting on well-chosen clips and fragments to illustrate their argument in tandem with their own critical insights. Streaming: film criticism you can watch 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Yet beyond the platitudes, the program did offer a profound musical juxtaposition, at least on paper: Adams’s memorialization through a fragmented and highly localized musical language and Beethoven’s ode to universal brotherhood. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

Part of the interest of Mr. McIntyre’s work is that it catches fragments of that heartbreak while never trying to illustrate the songs’ words literally. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z

Her hair—clearly a wig—is an abstract-looking bob, lopped off mid-neck, while her legs appear bifurcated by a swatch of tablecloth, giving her the fragmented aspect of a Bellmer doll. The Women Who Mother Lifelike Baby Dolls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Grass” is a movie of memory, with the café serving as a sort of spontaneous public confessional booth that customers fill with fragments of their past lives and the ongoing force of their traumas. “Grass,” Reviewed: Hong Sang-soo Listens in on Painful Confessions at a Coffee Shop 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Ginsberg recorded fragments of his thoughts and memories of Kerouac in his journals, as he had done when he learned of Cassady’s death. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Once I’d gotten fragments of the poem down, I tried writing the words out longhand, but found both my hand and mind cramping up from lack of practice. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

He’s a skinny old man in a sweatsuit, with wild white hair and some fragments of white beard. Replaying the Past, to a New Soundtrack 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In these times of fragmented à la carte media, there are only so many monoculture moments, so artists are clamoring to be a part of the few that do remain. How Old-Fashioned TV Still Drives the Music Industry 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Music is being fragmented in several different ways,” says Dave Bakula, senior vice president of industry insights for Nielsen Music, which tracks sales and streams data. We can’t stop talking about Beyoncé. But is she selling as much music as we think? 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

"Guardians," then, may be a perfect reflection of, and movie made for, our fragmented 140-character age, where shards of meaning—observation, jokes, even bits of human insight--matter more than a grander storytelling whole. Good fun is now a key plot point 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Given Mr. Hannah’s taste for flash and fragment, the shorter his stories are, the better. Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z

Filled with desolate vistas, a feathered and furred menagerie, and multiple aperture-like windows, these fragments quickly establish a moody tone and over time become dolorous refrains. Review: The Persistence of Abbas Kiarostami’s Vision in ‘24 Frames’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

At the start of Caroline Shaw’s “Partita for 8 Voices,” fragments of sentences bounce in the air like musical notes. Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Her dancers move more like everyday people than like mythic figures, and they also speak, whether reciting stage directions or fragmented dialogue. Review: Martha Graham Dance Company Displays Unorthodox Humor 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The nation’s worst Covid-19 outbreak is happening in Alaska, where the state’s fragmented health care system has been strained as supplies run low, patients are treated in hallways and doctors ration oxygen. At One Alaskan Hospital, Indigenous Foods Are Part of the Healing Plan 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The references to Graham, shown with a Taylor twist, are obvious, but where it gets fascinating are when the ghostly fragments of his own future come into view. Dance Review: Aligning His Planets for Another Star Turn 2011-03-04T23:15:49Z

The melodies retain their jagged edges, though, evoking both the fragmented mind of Ms. Cox’s character and the wrenching ambivalence of Ms. Kritzer’s. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z

Manchester, however – less fragmented into myriad sub-genres – is currently fertile territory. Bang On! The new regional sound of British hip-hop 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

On June 8, 1966, he was peppered with fragments from a North Vietnamese grenade as the American unit he was with came under attack in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

He was writing an extended essay on the painting and thought that he would leave it unfinished, a fragment. Leo Steinberg obituary 2011-04-12T16:56:17Z

Despite all the fragments, the melody becomes impossible to stop, a series of commas and dashes, demanding continuation. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

I was feeling fragmented, even a bit wasted, by the end of my daily FB journey. My breakup with Facebook 2013-01-12T00:30:00Z

Purcell's short work, probably first performed in 1688, is a fragment. Dido and Aeneas; Aurora Percussion Duo, Bartosz Glowacki; Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien – review 2013-01-13T00:06:16Z

This theme is made explicit in the show’s title piece, a museum-like display of 29 simulated archaeological fragments. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

He is best known for cutting up derelict buildings scheduled for demolition, turning them into giant temporary installations or extracting fragments from them that he then exhibited as sculpture. Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Their wings have fragments of text on them, even though Ortiz knows the detail is too tiny for the audience to see. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

The music, however bombastic, never overwhelms or distracts from the images — as hypnotic and fragmented as they are — and may actually render them stronger. A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

As the media environment became more fragmented, MTV also popularized reality and celebrity TV formats. 40 Years of MTV: the channel that shaped popular culture as we know it 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

Indeed, a year earlier, in 2016, the museum had even put out a scholarly ebook, now discredited, that touted the so-called Dead Sea scroll fragments as “an especially important addition to known material.” Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Or as the fragments of his reality come into focus, the line of dialogue Kelly calls the key to understanding the film: “The fourth dimension will collapse upon itself. You stupid b----.” Analysis | The delightfully bonkers film that turned the Rock into Dwayne Johnson 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Later, abbey treasures including a fragment of the shroud from the shrine were laid on the High Altar. UK queen attends service for Westminster Abbey's 750th anniversary 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Their focus is the important achievement of black self-taught artists of the American South, born of extreme deprivation and social cruelty, raw talent and fragments of lost African cultures. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Insomniac City” is written in fragments and vignettes, mostly chronologically, often in the form of actual journal entries, though it includes some of the author’s poetry and photographs, too. Review: ‘Insomniac City’ Recalls Life With Oliver Sacks 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

And in pencil drawings, the Colombian-Korean artist Gala Porras-Kim documents hundreds of textile fragment left, centuries ago, as temple offerings to the Mayan rain god and now preserved in an ethnological museum at Harvard University. Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

He goes on to cite a piece of ancient Persian wisdom and to buttress it with a fragment of Psalm 8. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

In the pair’s collaborative canvases, their signatures form large, semi-legible tangles — variously fragmented, magnified and reversed, in snappy black on white. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Sometimes a buzzing low note on a tuba, or swelling sustained trombone tones, or some fragment of an ascending whole-tone scale, would break through the texture of murmuring sounds. Music Review: Best Way to the Concert? Get Yourself a Rowboat 2011-06-22T22:15:30Z

The Indian section, and a fragment about a backpacking trip through Europe, draw on the year he spent travelling the world after college. Jeffrey Eugenides reveals details of Middlesex follow-up 2010-07-16T10:34:00Z

This is Tumblr-as-album, the piecing together of divergent fragments to make a cohesive whole. Review: Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo,’ Songs of Praise and Self 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

I am gleefully reassembling the shattered fragments of my yesterday’s good life, transforming them into new and beautiful, real and touchable treasures. On skid row, rebuilding a dream one mosaic at a time 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

"We reworked half the film, but across very fragmented sequences, which required extremely meticulous work," Grimault said in a 1980 interview. 1980's 'The King and the Mockingbird' finally alights in U.S. 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

I am leaning on a fragment of history: the bar of the Rovers Return, albeit a reproduction, on top of which sits a moth-eaten stuffed ginger cat. Corrie on stage? Bless my hairnet! 2011-02-09T21:31:01Z

She’s more intent on capturing the delirium of Eva’s present than examining the past, so she lets the story fragment and wander. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z

This 20-minute sequence of related fragments begins with Mr. Franco describing the impression made on him by videos of Paul McCarthy’s often over-the-top performances. Art Review: James Franco?s ?Dangerous Book? of Art 2010-08-19T22:00:00Z

One needn’t exalt every fragment as a puzzle piece, or every story as a novella, to be staggered by his feats of resurrection. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Gambler", finishes with the couplet: "Three times wounded; three times gassed / Three times wrecked – I lost at last", while another fragment runs: "This was a Godlike soul before it was crazed / No matter. 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 2013-02-25T15:31:38Z

The dancers seem to be flying apart; tango steps are fragmented and finally evaporate altogether in a moving central duet, which felt like air, like the breeze outside on the marble terrace, romantic and soft. Chamber Dance Project sweeps in like a cool breeze

You may find yourself feeling a bit the way you do looking from the window of an airplane, when fragmented landscapes acquire the symmetry of a patchwork quilt. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z

In fact, the process of sitting down and sniffing — concentrating quietly on registering aromas, or fragments of aromas — is lonely, tedious and mentally exhausting. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

The oldest known carpet fragment dates to around 400 B.C. in Persia. The cost-conscious consumer’s guide to buying carpet 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Forgotten paintings and fragments of her correspondence have turned up at auctions and in museum warehouses; in 2011, a batch of her postcards sold in France for about $1,100. ‘Little Dreams in Glass and Metal’ Spotlights Enameling 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

As he falls into journalism, we follow the wartime plight of his future bride, whose evacuation during the bombardment of Baton Rouge comes alive in diary fragments. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

As she told a reporter in 1966, “I have always felt that when things are spelled out they mean less, and when fragmented they mean more.” New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Over the canal from Hackney Wick, a land of artists' studios and fragments of industry, there will be buildings with workshops and yards. London's Olympics legacy faces early disqualification 2013-07-21T18:30:01Z

Like those books, "Find Me" teeters between realistic depictions of a fragmenting social order, and a more visionary style. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

We talk to each other in fragments because of how short on time we are now that we’re liberated,” she said. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z

That startling, unpleasant image reignites the uncertainty and fear that rise in Marta like bile, as her fragmented memories struggle to focus. How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman – review 2013-02-08T08:00:01Z

Ingeniously, the movie-list concept serves as an organizing principle, but the true topics of the book’s evocative fragments are loneliness, anomie and desolation. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree

This divine skill, which manifests in certain people at 13 or before, is believed to originate from globally scattered fragments of the biblical Tower of Babel. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

One by one, the film’s living characters evaporate into pixel-like fragments, their individuality flowing into a stream that includes the now and the then, the living and the dead. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

We were picking up fragments of glass for weeks. ‘There was blood on the walls’: what to do when teen parties go wrong 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

The answer, which demands challenging and contentious engagement, is left for the reader to squint at between fragments. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

It begins: "Traveler waking. Journey begins," and the prose continues on in the mode of these fragments, these clipped near-sentences. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

When a fragment of rare wallpaper was found in one room, it was reinstated at a cost of £47,000 for the single room. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z

And the glinting, melodically fragmented Davies piano concerto that gives the album its title is another showstopper. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Every example of this brilliantly conceived monumental art is composed of fragments of that world. Through Catastrophe, and in Community, the Art of Daniel Lind-Ramos 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, Abel and the seemingly all-powerful men who reigned in his homeland, and the soldiers who pursue them, are merely tiny fragments, as he once saw himself, in a larger mosaic. Review | In ‘Missionaries,’ Phil Klay paints a grim picture of Colombia’s drug war 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

I mean, “Bluets” has the most to do with fragmentation, in that it’s explicitly interested in the fragment — both found and made — as a physical phenomenon and conceptual idea. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

But as the cinematic fragments become more whole through the performers’ chanting and repetitive movements, the dance wavers. Dance Review: ?Puro Deseo,? With Luciana Achugar and Michael Mahalchick 2010-04-30T20:15:00Z

When the cellos and basses broke into the fragmented phrases that coalesce into a theme, the playing was demonic. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z

In compositions such as “The Night Wind,” which depicts fluttering flowers in a dark palette, translucent fragments overlap to yield new hues, a sense of depth and an illusion of movement. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

It began with such promise, but by the end all that remains are fragments of a story that never got going. Royal Academy's Mexican revolution misses the bigger picture 2013-07-09T16:43:38Z

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying a half-dozen fragments in “New Discoveries: Early Liturgical Textiles From Egypt, 200 to 400,” through Sept. 5. A Quirky Board Game With Versions Spanning 400 Years 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Then there was the option, popular in the case of ancient sculptures, of leaving masterworks unrestored if they cracked with age, excavation or accidents — a process conservators often call “the romance of the fragment.” Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

His "fragments of information, detours and repetitions designed to confuse and enlighten in equal measure", the Turner nomination said. Turner Prize winner to be announced 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

What that might be is hinted at in a fragment of Mr. Beal’s original song “Blue Escape,” a ballad reminiscent of “Unchained Melody,” that he sings in a fervent folk-gospel tenor. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In perhaps his first architectural excision, Matta-Clark tore out the storefront’s walls to achieve an open-plan kitchen and exhibited one of the fragments as a sculpture at 112 Greene Street. Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The forthright opening movement with its lurching cadenza is followed by a slow, enigmatic waltz, which seems under constant threat of dissolving into fragments. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-02-10T18:40:19Z

They were cued through numbered ideas by Mr. Bepler, who stood in the middle and held up fingers to indicate what he wanted: “fragment,” “song,” “loop section,” etc. Music Review: Basilica Soundscape Featured Music and Art 2013-09-15T22:05:57Z

A major challenge was to distinguish cancer-causing mutations in these fragments of DNA from the more common and largely harmless mutations in DNA shed from normal cells in the body. AI program could check blood for signs of lung cancer 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

When the soloists join the choirs for the final movement, they bring with them those instrumental colours, together with fragments of the texts they have sung. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

Today’s individualism empowers the right but fragments the left. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

For that scene Mr. Bartlett switches to more naturalistic speech — unpunctuated, quick, pungent, full of sentence fragments — as Shakespeare did when he shifted focus from highborn to low-ranking characters. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Only the barest fragments – the odd pillar here, the occasional catacomb there – serve as evidence that the classical city ever stood where today all is traffic and concrete. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z

It’s the last network, as it likes to say, doing broadcasting in a fragmented media market. Upfronts Watch: CBS Changes, Albeit By Staying the Same 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Subjects include bombers, starry nights, expanses of waves but also the glaze on a fragment of porcelain seen up close that evokes finely veined skin or cracked earth. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

These are striking scenes that suggest, in the manner of Simon Stephens's Pornography, that we live in a fragmented society where people are conjoined only by acts of violence. Pieces of Vincent 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Lines that could be from a transcript of a tetchy interpersonal skirmish will be followed by a pensive fragment plucked from some regretful or aggrieved interior monologue. Dry Cleaning: It’s Spoken Rock ’n’ Roll, but We Like It 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

At the end of two weeks in Ojai, she read the fragments to others.  From 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' to 'Burnpile' at the Kirk Douglas: Lucy Alibar finds her voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

And in December, the Vatican announced it would give three Parthenon fragments to the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, who is expected to pass them on to the Acropolis Museum. After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

“My paintings are like fragments of something you see out of the corner of your eye,” he told the Dallas Times Herald in 1987. Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Mysterious stretches of rumbling percussion segue into ritualized stretches with repetitive instrumental riffs and overlapping strands of melodic fragments. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

But the market of 1958 was relatively simple compared to the fragmented market of today. Colombian coffee at the crossroads 2013-05-13T19:48:00Z

Indigenous people are said to have vanished, but they suffered genocide-by-academia: Contrary to common opinion, indigenous people have survived — like our African, European, Jewish and Arabic ancestors — in fragments through their descendants. On an Island Hunt for Pieces of My History 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

“There are tens of thousands of fragments out there,” she said. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

But the ultimate aim, Sicily’s A. Salinas Archaeological Museum said in a statement, is the “indefinite return” of the fragment to Athens. Italy sending Parthenon fragment to Athens in nudge to UK 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Reality appears in fragments, and so you give yourself over to moods, to emotion. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Of the scroll fragments, Ms. Loll said they struck her team as dubious from the moment they got them under a 3-D microscope. Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

The murals here, seemingly simplistic, address pop culture as well as issues of race, class and the fragmented, fleeting nature of memory. His art centers on silent-era race films with African American actors, names that 'Fade to Black' 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

He plans to create an exhibit showcasing how Ms. Loll and her team used hard science to debunk the scroll fragments. Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

But in today’s television, a 23 share is a landslide — and in a crowded primary in an ideologically fragmented party, it is large enough for first place. What ‘The Apprentice’ Taught Donald Trump About Campaigning 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

One of three selections from “The Games,” a 1984 fantasia about a post-apocalyptic society, was a fragmented, hectoring number sung by the fascist “game master.” Review: Meredith Monk, Still a Peerless Mixture of Otherworldly and Human 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Back on the beach, Mr. Cotner read a fragment by the ancient Greek poet Sappho about a sleepless night alone, prompting reflections on romances gone bad. ‘Island Night,’ a Walk Across Fire Island 2012-09-06T22:22:25Z

One book disturbed her so much that she “tore it into parts and discarded the fragments in separate gas station garbage bins across South Dakota and Nebraska.” ‘She dreamed ‘Out of Africa’ without the plane crashes, syphilis, and Danish accent.’ It turned out otherwise. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Her montage of film fragments illustrates and sometimes poetically belies the interviewees’ recollections, evoking the ambiguous and unresolved contours of collective memory. ‘What We Left Unfinished’ Review: Spectres of History 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

There's an incredible reconstruction of an Assyrian chariot horse, its harness assembled in fragments – an academic ransacking of the British Museum's tack room. The Horse: From Arabia to Royal Ascot – review 2012-05-26T23:05:41Z

His sense of place was strongest when pent up in his fragments. Summer readings: Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 2011-08-03T09:40:08Z

But with the English-language television market fragmented beyond recognition, even a block of 50 million potential viewers unified by language becomes extraordinarily attractive to programmers and advertisers alike. CNN?s Latin Sister Looks to Capture a Booming Market 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z

But it’s a messy, fragmented affair, with as many angles as a Cubist painting. Picasso Aplenty, at the Pace and Gagosian Galleries 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Dr. Smith contacted the seller and urged him to halt the online auction — apparently the first on eBay for a Greek New Testament papyrus, he and other scholars said — and let him study the fragment. Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

The result is a tantalizing if fragmented narrative rescued from inscrutability by the intensity of its materials, forms and styles. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Each offers personal perspectives on sweeping changes, alongside fragments of experiences that often seem to defy language. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution’: Essays From 8 Nations 2013-12-30T21:05:36Z

A Chinese silk cushion face and textile fragment, 19th century, 12" w. x 26" l.; 19th-Century Chinese Silks Are on the Block 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The overarching sense is that you’re hearing and viewing this well-known album through a kaleidoscope, the songs fragmented and dissected. ‘Pepperland’ is an ecstatic and provocative Beatles tribute — and like no land you’ve been to before 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

His attractive melodic fragments were difficult to hold in mind, since a listener’s attention was constantly drawn to some competing figure. Review: 50 Violins, 50 Computer Chips, a Secular Prayer 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

In particular, many families are upset about a plan to place approximately 14,000 unidentified or unclaimed remains of those who died — typically bone fragments or dried bits of tissue — in the museum below ground. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z

For gamblers who pray to win, and may need a little help, the store had offered an exhibit of rare bibles like a fragment of the microform containing 50 pages of the King James Bible. The Baumans, Sellers of Really, Really Rare Books 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The road to yes involved a fragmented political landscape, an insistent fan base and gently prodding studio executives. Why Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass Couldn’t Quit Jason Bourne 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The subtext of the resulting album, “Hyphenated-Man,” is a fragmented self-portrait: “a mirror busted up in 30 pieces,” as he put it. Music: The Midlife Thing, the Nightmare Thing 2011-02-24T21:48:04Z

But there’s another term for an endless collection of fragments and minutiae: We know it as the universe. On ‘Better Things,’ a Small Story Goes Out With a Big Bang 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

On a more modest level, there will also be crates of old crockery and cutlery, small mountains of trunks and suitcases and boxes of fragments of elaborate plasterwork. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch ?2.5m 2010-07-14T09:23:00Z

Like it or not, she said, we are fragmented beings. When One Dancer Is a Ghost in the Room 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Scientists from the London Science Museum briefed her on NASA’s Mars Perseverance mission and discussed the discovery of fragments from a meteorite earlier this week in England. Queen tells kids studying space of meeting Soviet cosmonaut 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

In this digital age, fans are easier to reach than ever — and yet more fragmented and fickle than ever. Comic-Con, Hollywood and the nature of modern fandom 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Charlotte entrusted the task to her cousin Kirsty Meakin, who picked out and placed the tiny bone fragments on Walton’s nails. Wild styles: The silliest fashion choices, retail items and clothing trends of 2019 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

You watch, you listen to the steps, you wait: Inevitably, among the fragments — some soft and fuzzy, others jagged — a picture emerges. Review: ‘The Goodbye Studies’ Explores the Idea of the Crowd 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

While the museum’s expert evaluated it, two fragments were put on display, attracting throngs of visitors, including Prime Minister William Gladstone. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Adrift, he set to work on “Birthstone,” a novel about a woman struggling to gather the fragments of her personality into a stable identity. D.M. Thomas, 88, Dies; His ‘White Hotel’ Was a Surprise Best Seller 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The short scenes, which vary from the banal to the lyrical, are like impressionistic fragments of a collage. The Hard Man ? review 2011-04-04T20:29:00Z

Attached drawers, as in the Galliera’s own reserves, pull out to reveal a fragment of lace, a belt, a book or an entire Spanish folklore costume. Are Les Docks the Next Cool Thing? 2012-06-04T11:30:24Z

To the extent it existed on social media, it’s in fragments. It’s Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are? 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Its lyrics contain fragments of a story: Jackie flees her hometown, Franklin, Tenn. — where “you don’t speak unless spoken at” — on a Greyhound bus to Chicago. Review: ‘Jackie Lynn,’ Further Proof That Haley Fohr Is Hard to Contain 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

In “History of Rise and Fall,” it becomes a shifting, clattering architectural pileup: a million-roofed samurai castle garnished with cherry trees, fragmented Buddhist sculptures and ant-size hanged human figures. Art Review: Anxiety on the Fault Line 2011-03-17T22:31:02Z

The fragment was discovered in the 1920s in another book, where it had been used as binding scrap. The 2,000-Year Story of Building the Book 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Upstairs a cool, eerie mood is created by swaying and rotating mirrored mobiles and fragments of elusive audio. Artist Cerith Wyn Evans fires up the White Cube 2010-05-13T11:51:00Z

His deep love of literature is evident in his artworks, which still include fragments of text, as well as photographs of favorite writers and layers of literary allusions. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

While abstract, the pictures suggest storms or machines, seemingly rotating in a manner that draws the arcing fragments together. Review | In the galleries: Erika Cleveland’s ‘Healing Dolls’ are playful in their duality 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Instead they collect beguiling fragments of radical whimsy. Whitechapel Gallery's Spirit of Utopia offers only broken dreams 2013-07-03T15:18:21Z

“Broken,” the novella that opens the book, is like a fragment from Winslow’s recent police novel “The Force.” A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Against a white paper support, we see a girl’s face composed of fragments of found images. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

When each bar of soap dissolves to a sliver, she collects each fragment, places them into the cut-off foot of a pair of old pantyhose, and ties it shut. Searching for Saboun Nabulsi, the olive oil soap that connects Palestinian-Americans like me to home 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

Petrarch, the 14th-century Italian poet and scholar, wrote his enormous collection of love poems, sonnets and fragments over 40 years. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

A small piece of “Answered Prayers” was published in 2012, but Capote spoke of other fragments that have never been found. Lost Stories by Capote Are Published 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Two other Hemingway story fragments are “Alice in Wonderland”-style tales — actually featuring Alice, Tweedledee and Tweedledum — that savagely lampoon President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

The 5th century B.C. fragments arrived in Athens Friday. LA's Getty Museum returns antiquities to Greece 2012-03-09T17:16:03Z

Many people at intermission were talking about the looping in the second movement: haunting echoes of cello fragments that seem to travel through the hall. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But by the end of the 1950s, with society fragmenting, cinema would rapidly lose faith in the essential incorruptibility of British institutions. Stop or we'll shoot: British cinema's portrayal of the police 2011-08-11T21:10:00Z

As these fragmented narratives elegantly graze each other without ever clicking into a fully formed picture, the two women’s lives are marked by suicide, foreclosures, menial labor, social immobility and overarching sadness. Two Women Related by Blood, Strained by Money, Split by Hardship 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

In the haunting score, by the acclaimed Belfast DJ David Holmes, what sounds like sacred choral music mingles with sparring voices that offer fragments of a narrative. From Northern Ireland, Dance as a ‘Physical Prayer’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

There's a huge creative community online but it is fragmented. Bedroom to Guggenheim 2010-06-14T04:00:00Z

While overall TV viewership is at record levels, it also is increasingly fragmented across dozens of channels. How much does movie marketing matter? 2010-06-11T07:17:00Z

It may be that Ms. Smith chooses to render her adult life in fragments and dreams for the very responsible reason that she has two children. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Either way, Dickson suggests both fragmented consciousness and the unity of mankind and nature. Review | In the galleries: ‘Habitats’ at Target Gallery showcases the nature of creativity 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

No one was hit by the fragments, which gallery officials said would be put back in place. Restoration begins on Pompeii's fragile ruins 2013-02-06T17:22:08Z

And the solo demos of “Cold Turkey” and an early fragment of “Well Well Well” sound more like vintage rural blues than the electric band versions would. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

One takes whole objects out of context, essentially turning them into fragments, while the other takes fragments out of context, essentially treating them as whole objects. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

Mr. Michael has taken apart the building blocks of stand-up and refashioned them into a fragmented and meditative psychological drama, a sarcastic club set improbably aiming for the feel of the French new wave. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The fragmented opposition to the Nazis had been either co-opted or destroyed. A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

While it's possibly an acquired taste, you'll find fragments of the most perceptive writing on the state of UK comedy here. Comedy picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:16:00Z

Erica Baum takes close-up pictures of the page edges of slightly open paperbacks, catching glimpses of word fragments and half-seen illustrations. Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

One of the big innovatory breakthroughs of early-20th century art resulted from three or four irreverent individuals cutting out fragments of photographic scraps and sticking them together in outlandish combinations. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z

It begins with strong, saturated chords before moving on to fragmented versions — some unison, some not — of syncopated soul riffs that are like abstractions of the song. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z

Captured in fragments on cellphone videos and security cameras during the failed insurrection on Jan. 6, these sounds and images are more than a month old now. Perspective | The Jan. 6 images were already disturbing. The impeachment-trial video makes them terrifying. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Slowly and steadily, the piece became more lyrical, with sung melodic fragments that charmingly juxtaposed lines like “our love of music” with “our favorite sandwich.” ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Jeck resurrects battered vinyl classics, slowing down and looping the likes of Aaron Copeland to create fragments of songs echoing across time and sleep. Inception brings the trend for slow music to the big screen 2010-07-30T12:04:00Z

It’s been a very good decade or so for the fragmented novel of a woman’s consciousness. In This Novel, the Stream of Consciousness Is More Like a Whirlpool 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

His delivery early in the show of a fragment from “Texts for Nothing, #1” is a taut internal dialogue, a tower of Babel within a single mind. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

That pattern suggests another factor may be at work -- a renewed interest in big-event TV broadcasts at a time when audiences are increasingly fragmented by the proliferation of cable channels and the Internet. Latest Oscar telecast most watched in five years 2010-03-08T23:56:00Z

That sentence was sung in its entirety at the work’s beginning and end, with phrase fragments and single words woven into a texturally rich and varied score in the middle sections. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Offers Premieres at Zankel Hall 2014-02-21T22:20:50Z

In an innovative 2006 exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, “Re: Pair and Imperfection,” she showcased flawed fragments from fellow jewelers reincarnated as new pieces. A Jewelry Maker Who Goes Far Beyond Metal 2012-12-06T16:07:04Z

The character is called, simply, Mouth, and as embodied by the astonishing actress Lisa Dwan, it seems to be murmuring from somewhere in your own mind, as in fragments of a half-recalled dream. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z

Steve Reich used taped fragments of people speaking in some of his earliest works from the mid-1960s, and returned to such samples in later works like “Different Trains.” Review: In ‘The News,’ a Cacophony of Current Events 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cohen is telling a story about the modern world, but he’s using visual and aural fragments — think of them as story shards — instead of three distinct acts and character arcs. Review: ‘Counting,’ a Meditation in Story Shards 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

"In the gallery, you won't be able to see the whole work at once, so any narrative you establish is necessarily fragmented." Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe 2010-09-29T20:30:00Z

She worked out the choreography by translating Riley’s musical fragments into 53 different sets of what she called movement figures. Sasha Waltz’s ‘In C’ Marries Choreography and Improvisation 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

The program opened with his “En el Aire,” whose flute fragments overlapped with recorded percussion. Music Review: Alejandro Escuer at the Americas Society 2012-11-22T21:08:22Z

Peek into the courtyard to see a range of decorative tiles and repurposed architectural fragments. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

He also looped, echoed and multiplied fragments of the performances, time-warping the stark realism of vocals and guitar. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z

At the outset are two videos, each projected onto a big fragmented plywood screen. A Bold Explorer Surfaces in ‘Wandering Lake’ 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Such fragments are often the stuff of great films – and great books, too. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z

Ms. Applebroog’s sui generis practice first came to notice in the mid-1970s, when she started mailing self-published booklets of her art, with fragments of cryptic text, to artists and writers she admired. Ida Applebroog, Whose Art Confronted Relationships, Dies at 93 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Mostly, though, there’s a story of interconnected characters, told in traditional if fragmented scenes. | 'Civilization (All You Can Eat): This Porker Has a Beef With the World 2011-06-22T22:00:51Z

As I waited, I received some small fragments of messages from the cardamom — something floral, something mellow but almost menthol, something like the freshness of sun-warmed citrus. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

We stopped by a sculpture of a fragmented centaur and heard the song of the Thames Daughters, connecting nothing with nothing through broken fingernails. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z

In the best of the mind-bending videos in this show — it plays on a screen mounted inside a doghouse — they also recite fragments of text that ricochet between existential inquiry and self-help-style command. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

A fragment of a colossal but mediocre quartzite Tut statue that once stood outside the mortuary chamber is bathed in a pulsing sound-and-light show. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

This is another narratively fragmented series, whose plots are steeped in memories that differ and darken depending on whose perspective is the focus. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018: A highly subjective list 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The song is first heard as airy fragments on the piano, which are recorded and then played back on a small speaker placed in the teapot. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Feathers and cuneiform letters are chiselled into other fragments. In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Except for these passages, everything we’ll learn about him arrives obliquely and in fragments, stories told to that invisible narrator by seven invented characters. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

His 2003 two-CD retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” teemed with monologues, musical fragments and a handful of actual songs. Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu' 2011-10-28T05:34:00Z

Though he plays the main character, “High Maintenance” isn’t about him; he’s the empty space around which the rest of the fragmented, flawed community revolves. Surprise: The creators of “High Maintenance” really do smoke a lot of weed 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

As bullets and fragments of teeth fly, numerous historical figures — Bette Davis, Joseph Kennedy — show up. James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The volume kicks off with Montaigne, followed by fragments of Bacon, Johnson, Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice – reviews 2012-05-25T21:55:07Z

All that sweetness would have seemed out of place were it not for Charlie Wilson, who slices through West’s slurry cheer with a melancholy chorus so fragmented you can practically hear the punctuation marks. 10 of Kanye West's Most Inspired Collaborations 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The works integrate fragments of their personal family photographs amid historical images and shifting fields of color. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Or fragments of memories — incomplete scenes, uncomfortable feelings, perhaps even a sense of certainty that something specific and terrible happened to them, but little more than this. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z

Several poems, or parts of poems, dealing with themes of danger, death and madness are on envelope fragments in the shapes of arrows or grenades. Books of The Times: ‘The Gorgeous Nothings’ Shows Dickinson’s ‘Envelope Poems’ 2013-12-05T21:53:47Z

Call it a snippet, then, a bit of overheard conversation, a fragment of a longer dialogue. Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

We scan an abstract painting for links between line segments, for recognizable contours and objects, but in the most fragmented works, such as those by Rothko, our efforts are thwarted. This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Artemis’ foot will snuggle in like a missing jigsaw piece between two original fragments and a copy of a larger section now in London. Greece hopes marble foot will get UK to return sculptures 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Ritual objects and dramatic fragments — two kids bathing, a scuffle over emigrating, a madeleine-like musing on coffee — hold center stage more than bright narrative threads. ‘Faya Dayi’ Review: A Dream State 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Research about the fourth-century papyrus fragment was released last month by Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King. Show on Jesus' wife papyrus delayed amid doubts 2012-10-02T12:15:13Z

The chorus sings three aching yet unforced cries of “Père!,” answered each time by weary melodic fragments in the slowly churning orchestra. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

The cut-up, as he admitted later, perfectly suited his own fragmented consciousness, and also enabled him to cut through the tangle of expectation and image that threatened to slow him down. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z

Particularly given the current climate in France — its fragmented political landscape, its high unemployment rate, its heavily armed security forces walking the streets — the raucous ovation Ms. Kawakubo received was fully merited. American Chic on the Runways of Paris 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

A larger debate in the music industry looms over the value of the Grammys — and of all awards shows — in an era of fragmented viewing and declining ratings. The Grammys, Always Unpredictable, Face New Surprises 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

It is born by a highly fragmented industry. Shaking Off the World’s Worries, Jewelry Focuses on Growth 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

In the exhibition, a fragment of similar Spanish brocade is displayed below, vivid evidence of cochineal’s link to both fabric and painting. An Insect’s Colorful Gift, Treasured by Kings and Artists 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Some music fans understandably regard the guitars owned and played by George Harrison, in his Beatles career and as a solo artist, as sacred relics that may still contain fragments of their former master’s spirit. New iPad App, ?The Guitar Collection: George Harrison? 2012-02-22T15:44:05Z

And once in improvisational mode, the basic pulse itself might fizzle, fragment and fracture into a freeflow slipstream of sound: time lapse more than time out. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

One such fragment: “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.” Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Her images centered on reflective shards and metallic fragments that suggested bits of space crafts, car bodies, shields or mirrors. Deborah Remington, Abstract Artist, Dies at 79 2010-05-18T05:25:00Z

The first fragments of that will be online by the end of the year. 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online 2011-09-27T00:31:04Z

Adding to the excitement, her lace collar matched a fragment visible in “Head of a Boy,” cementing his presence as part of this family portrait. ‘Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion’ Review: Piecing Together the Van Campen Clan 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

Then something stunning happened, just for a moment: a short gesture, a softly sighing three-note melodic fragment landing on a dissonant-seeming chord that at first sounded as if it were wrong. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z

But advertising jargon back then was probably pretty similar to the fragments heard here, like “the guarantee you’ve been waiting for.” Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z

In an interview, Medici said he could not recall the kylix and disputed the contention that the Polaroids constituted evidence that the depicted fragments had passed through his hands. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Substantial architectural fragments invoke the vast desert palaces built by the Umayyads, in what is now Jordan, and later the Abbasids of Baghdad. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z

Whispered and more boldly enunciated fragments of Mr. Auster’s autobiographical stories were layered surrealistically in the opening section, heralding a narrative that unfolded amid alluring instrumental sonorities and electronics. Music in Review: OLGA NEUWIRTH 2012-12-09T23:10:24Z

Merely as a fragment of life, the image is compelling. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Yet even as the dancing appeared and disappeared like fragments, its starts and stops mirrored the energy of a strange and sad year. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Fragments for a Fragmented Time 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

It has been assembled from 500 fragments unearthed in Rome in the 19th century, recently “excavated” from the Capitoline Museums’ own storerooms and painstakingly reassembled. Review: The Face of Captive Greece in Rome 2010-08-13T15:41:00Z

According to Yahoo Finance, fragments of the fatal disease were detected in 48 percent of tested seized products in September. Australia bans Vietnamese tourist for bringing suitcase filled with undeclared pork 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

The stories in “Sleepless Nights” are often fragmented and always deeply personal. | 'Sleepless Nights Stories': ?Sleepless Nights Stories,? by Jonas Mekas - Review 2011-12-15T00:02:14Z

A fragment believed to be part of a Fifty-eight Holes game board, from the eighteenth century B.C. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

That's one reason it is so slender, fewer than 100 pages of deftly wrought fragments that together explore the problem not just of memory but also identity. Sarah Manguso's 'Ongoingness' preserves life in the pages 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Like the cars, these tales are encountered in fragments. | 'Foreign Parts': A Patch of Rusty Paradise That Might Be Paved 2011-03-09T23:44:26Z

The fragmented world of the cold war was more resilient to shocks, and also more hospitable to social democracy, than the world that ensued. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z

Eighty years later, the fragments that remain easily blend into the forest. The spirits of Shenandoah National Park 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Donner pieces together Mildred’s life from fragments, sifting through government archives, interviews, photographs, diaries and letters — though some of those diaries and letters were destroyed, and the most personal items weren’t always revealing. A Remarkable Work of Family History Vividly Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

"As viewing patterns fragment … there is a risk that ad dollars will move online, so this is a way to hedge their bets." DreamWorks Animation launches family-oriented YouTube channel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

As hard as it is to believe today, some of the fragments were taped together soon after their discovery, as researchers tried to piece the puzzle of the fragments back together. One of earliest known copies of Ten Commandments sees the light of day 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Similarly, these dangerous ventures, whether with a larger group in city streets or with the trio of Malorie and the children in the wild, are filmed with illustrative approximations, in generic gestures and fragments. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

More subtle, abstract works that combine vivid colors, Arabic letters and fragments of antiquity or poetry also convey a message. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

The two women entered like noisy latecomers, arguing in comic fragments. Dance Review: Souleymane Badolo and Cynthia Oliver at New York Live Arts 2013-04-28T21:01:39Z

“We must speak of puzzle pieces rather than fragments.” Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

He and Mr. Trevino experimented with updated Ohlone recipes, piecing together fragments, cooking for their community. California Cuisine, Long Before Chez Panisse 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Reconstructed, a casual fragment of journalistic information now seems visually irradiated. Thomas Demand undercuts what we think photographs show us 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

The sex scenes are daringly fragmented and almost abstract while the narrative is bluntly symmetrical. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And I like text in motion, when you catch fragments and then assemble meaning. | Jenny Holzer Takes On South Africa 2010-06-15T19:15:00Z

Over time, thousands of the vases have been reconstructed from fragments found alongside each other. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Of course Fitzgerald’s spectacular range extremes and sudden inclusions of fragments from pop songs left them scrambling, but otherwise the dancers delivered this high-energy tribute splendidly. The struggle, the hopeless fury and the joy of life, all captured by Alvin Ailey Dance 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

In this fragmented world of broadcast television, what’s the point of televised entertainment if it’s not inherently viral? Andy Samberg at the Emmys: can the host go viral? 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Other’s include a Band-Aid, wood shavings and paper fragments, according to Heritage Auctions. $20 bill with banana sticker expected to sell for upwards of $125G 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

He also focused increasingly on furniture — strictly in paint at first, then incorporating actual fragments of discarded wooden chairs and cabinets into his pieces. Review: At SAAM, a Chinese artist whose paintings have a 'purer purpose' than politics 2011-01-13T21:11:06Z

Julien’s kaleidoscopic multiscreen installations encourage viewers to move around to accommodate fragmented and multiple viewpoints at once: sometimes a synchronized narrative across the screens, other times disrupting the flow with blank screens or repeated images. Looking for Freedom, Isaac Julien Comes Home 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

It's a compositional journey that has often involved reducing music to the level of the fragment, the moment, with individual pieces or movements lasting mere seconds, or a minute, perhaps two. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z

Here the effect is more jarring and fragmented. Architecture Review: The Greening of Lincoln Center 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

Riffing off a fragment attributed to the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, Berlin devised the notion of categorizing thinkers as either hedgehogs or foxes. Hollywood's hedgehog mentality threatens its survival 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

From a piano placed in the rear of the stage come captivating fragments: skittish bursts of notes, like bits of a Pointillist piano piece or, at times, Impressionist filigree. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Shot in 2018 and inspired by a mischievous urban legend, “Shoplifters” is a Smithstopia of song titles, lyric fragments and scraps of band interviews that infest the movie’s dialogue and production design. ‘Shoplifters of the World’ Review: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Simon A. Morrison, a Princeton University music professor and author of a recent history of the Bolshoi Theater, was in Moscow and saw video fragments from one of the last rehearsals. Bolshoi Denies Gay Theme Forced Postponing of Nureyev Ballet 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

At the end of the movement, as the orchestra finally falls away, a musical fragment from Rameau emerges from the mist in a sweetly sad, delicate moment. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The singers turn inwards to pass quiet fragments of musical thought from one to another, pitching their entries out of thin air. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z

His fascination with prehistoric artifacts dates from his boyhood in Carmel, Calif., where he found Native American archaeological fragments in the hills above town. At Abmeyer + Wood: the wizardry of William Morris 2013-06-20T21:54:25Z

Oblong fragments of silk prints appeared on silk skirts and blouses, or as panels on sharply tailored suits and rugged outerwear. Fashion Review: Collections From Balenciaga, Rick Owns, Dries Van Noten, Rochas, Ann Demeulemeester 2012-03-02T00:23:08Z

At trial, a surgeon testified to removing bullet fragments from both of the rapper’s feet, with X-rays presented in court showing tiny fragments that remained. Rapper Tory Lanez Guilty in Shooting of Megan Thee Stallion 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Without the original fragments, she said, Dershowitz’s arguments can’t be proved or disproved, so they “must remain a footnote in the scholarly discussion of the origins of Deuteronomy.” Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Nakonechnyi captures Lilia's fragmented psyche, from sitting with her in silence as she absorbs information or cutting between her past and present in ways that magnify her situation. "What can be scarier than death?": Ukraine filmmaker on making a war film during wartime 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Each composer has a specific lighting color, to give a sense of which fragments combine to make wholes. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Payne is a new and exceptionally bright star of British drama, celebrated for casting a fresh, fragmented light on the complexities of contemporary life. Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z

Cropped as it was into the frame, it mostly read as fragmented jibberish. Perspective | The first debate was one of the worst moments in television history 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Companies consolidate, while regulation remains fragmented Which brings us to another key question: What’s happened to the regulators while financial companies continue to get bigger and bigger? Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z

Very few of those specimens remain in this fragmented entertainment age, but Dwayne Johnson proved himself as one over the weekend. ‘Rampage’ Is No. 1, Proving Dwayne Johnson’s Box Office Might 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

It wasn't long ago that talent agencies were facing an uncertain future, as film studios scaled back their slates, the TV industry fragmented and audiences scattered. Wall Street investors to Hollywood talent agencies: 'Show us the money' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Bruce had such an impact on you as a teenager growing up; music seems fragmented today, there's no universal narrative among artists. How to separate your dad from Bruce Springsteen 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

Scholars and media reports raised questions about the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments last year in the run up to the Green family’s November opening of the $500 million museum. U.S. Bible museum says five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments fake 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The fragments let you easily fill in the blanks in order to make the picture cohere. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The food movement is very different from typical social movements in that it’s enormously fragmented. Marion Nestle looks back at 30 years of agitating for better food 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The struggle to fit those fragments into a coherent life provides the narrative arc of “Love Is a Dirty Word,” his moving and ultimately inspiring new solo memory play at VS. Black, Baptist and gay: One man's journey from to Hollywood, vividly told 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

It backs its way into the story, groping toward a fragmented sense of the main character. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

And he carried a bullet fragment in his lower back — he still felt it whenever he crouched down or jumped up. I had it in me to kill him 2013-09-14T20:00:00Z

The flow of fragments, of flashbacks to adolescence and other formative traumas, pools into a psychological portrait of a damaged person. Amy Adams Unravels in “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Five lots of hand- and typewritten lyric fragments found inside the guitar case also are being sold. Dylan’s Newport Guitar Sells in NY for $965,000 2013-12-06T18:42:36Z

“Cut Me,” which explores the psychology of self-harm, has a bass line that harks back to vintage soul in its verses, but the track fragments its seeming solidity as it unfolds. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

Those are impressive ratings in this fragmented television world. ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Holzhauer a winner in TV ratings, too 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

In one of them, at a dinner party, Saul found himself throwing spears at David on a loop, with increasingly fragmented, sped-up text. Venice Has a Biennale for Theater, Too 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

At other times a crystalline arabesque appears, a fragment of an exalted language expressing an intense desire. Dance Review: Morphoses Performing at Jacob’s Pillow 2012-06-29T21:29:09Z

"The Negro" is the only manuscript that resembles a full chapter, and none of the other writing fragments that the Schomburg Center acquired substantiate the claim that there are two additional unpublished chapters. Malcolm X’s writings are “coming home to Harlem,” says Schomburg Center director Kevin Young 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Then, just as frequently, she dissolves into giggles, her quick-shifting demeanor echoing the fragmented tenor of her video.  At Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial, Martine Syms makes her moment 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

As the title suggests, it conjures fragmented memories, images and stories, often from childhood, gathered and transformed through movement and music by Mr. Tarpaga, three fellow dancers, and four musicians. Before the World Shut Down, a ‘Rite of Spring’ on a Senegal Beach 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Monk’s treatment of the image is as an antidote to an increasingly fragmented world. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

The composer and musician Conor Mitchell is onstage throughout, standing next to an upright piano on which he plays dissonant, fragmented melodies that strive anxiously for harmony. Review: ‘Tuesday’s at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman’s Travail 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

"Sally meets Stu" may be deliberately fragmented in its dance components. Agami/Ate9's 'Sally meets Stu' returns 2012-11-08T21:10:08Z

The poems of Merwin’s next book, “The Carrier of Ladders,” which would win him his first Pulitzer Prize, continued to experiment with breath and the line, fragments and run-ons. W. S. Merwin in The New Yorker 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The first large installation is a dark, cavernous room filled with an enormous jumble of jagged wall fragments, all painted black. 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

As the wives sing in fragmented phrases, trying to stay on message, the orchestra breaks into frenetic arpeggios, an audacious touch. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z

David Brooks’s “Stress Tests,” suspended roof fragments extracted from a bigger homage to Gordon Matta-Clark, is among the large installations commanding the aisles. Art Review: NADA NYC Art Fair at Basketball City 2013-05-10T20:45:22Z

Right now, its star is Mr. Summer, the cellist of the Turtle Island Quartet, whose inventive arrangements incorporated fragments from Bach cello suites. Tierney Sutton Reimagines Joni Mitchell Songs 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In “Dear Cyborgs,” fragments of Asian-American history pop up every now and then. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

In each of the 32 sheets in the series, a dark, shadowy patch compromises the fragmented image's legibility. In Santa Monica, photography that likes to break the rules 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

In 1944, a British soldier fighting in Italy was knocked unconscious by shell fragments. Spooky! Messages from the beyond or just coincidence? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

An epic video installation running for 24 hours, constructed out of thousands of fragments of film, it's boggling in its audacity. Frieze fringe: the weekend's best free contemporary art 2010-10-15T14:28:00Z

When he grabs one musical fragment and samples it digitally, the singers fall silent and look down aghast. Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Matching voices to species — like the whiskey tones of Louise Bourgeois to the distinctive cardinal — she layers interview fragments over rustic images of flocking and flying. | 'The Red Birds': Friends in Avian Form 2010-04-20T23:53:00Z

The total number of fragments is unclear, but at least one other piece is thought to be still missing, partly because the family is believed to have had 14 children. A Family Reunion, Centuries Later 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The commentators in the film — police officers, attorneys, academics, friends and family members and even recordings of Hernandez himself — provide only fragments of the events, possible motivations and social forces that affected Hernandez. How portrayals of the NFL are shaping criminal justice reform 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Gatsby enthusiasts – and what person with a brain isn't one? – will enjoy her reconstruction of the various fragments drawn from life, books and news stories that Fitzgerald combined to make his masterpiece. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z

Gesturing side by side, they feverishly trace the inseams of their arms and legs, sculpt the space around their hips and thighs, accompanied by their own funny, fragmented chatter. Cynthia Oliver’s ‘Boom!’ at New York Live Arts 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

It allowed her to collect up all the dispersed traces of her family, the innumerable scattered fragments that proved they had lived and loved, and hold them in one place again. The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family 2013-03-09T23:00:01Z

Social media posts and digestible podcast episodes invite even those whose attention feels fragmented to pause. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Although the fragment can’t stand on its own as a short story, the outline could provide sufficient guidance for some modern writer to complete the novel. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Each fragment contained more information than it seemed to at first but not enough to bear so many repetitions. DD Dorvillier Revisits Her Choreographic Archive 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The Medici palace in Florence housed a bounty of of ancient jewelry, precious stones, Oriental rarities, classical fragments, ancient manuscripts and masterpieces of Renaissance and post-Renaissance painting. Treasures of the Medicis on Display in Paris 2010-09-21T10:00:00Z

I presume that Mattingly's sense of being was a kind of stasis found in the fragmented, consonant chords at the end. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

The V&A's exhibition gives you scraps of Grace Kelly and fragments of Princess Grace. Grace Kelly: Style Icon at the V&A 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z

Ethan’s fragmented self-narrative is linked to its traumatic cause, so solving the mystery at the center of the film is satisfying. Movie Review: ‘Implanted,’ Starring Justice Leak 2013-12-06T00:24:32Z

The splash of red in the corner that complements the middle of Soukup’s outfit. the jagged fragments around him, some sharp and some blurry. At Olympics, the line between photo and painting can blur 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

For an artist who thinks in a steady stream of fragments like Mr. Nash, that must have been attractive. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z

These scenes also provide appealing evidence of Mr. Payne’s graceful way with awkward language, in which complete thoughts and feelings emerge from fragments of talk. Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z

Even in reshuffled fragments, “Loops” retains some of the feel of mature Cunningham. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

He pointed to a sculpture named “Dear Mother,” composed of broken doll parts, a safety whistle and other fragments that he wedged into a dissected saddle. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

“I had a bunch of beautiful fragments that I figured out how to make into songs.” St. Vincent renews her music with 'technology detox' 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z

The images, which pop up on quadrants of three low-def monitors, reveal the gallery and the player in an intentionally fragmented, ambiguous way. In the galleries: Hand Print Workshop celebrates two colorful decades 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Scholars immediately questioned the authenticity of the fragment, saying, for instance, that the grammar on it was unconvincing. Show on Jesus' wife papyrus delayed amid doubts 2012-10-02T12:15:13Z

In 1886, an ornithologist walking on New York City’s sidewalks found fastened on ladies’ hats the brilliant fragments of 40 different species. The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Despont added his own sculptures of insects, cobbled together from fragments of old tools. Antiques: Viennese Works From Australia 2011-11-10T22:00:51Z

Other common fingerprinting techniques, such as DNA barcoding that examines short DNA fragments, can detect adulteration in other foods, like fish or sausages. Maple syrup fraud undermines the authenticity of Canada’s ‘liquid gold’ 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Sentences turned into fragments, then words turned into mumblings. Critic?s Notebook: Comparing Fred Armisen?s ?SNL? Obama to Dana Carvey?s Bush 2011-12-05T06:52:36Z

"Holding fragments," she writes, "is not the same as making a broken thing whole." 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Reason is in short supply here, and grifters and con men peddling conspiracy thinking and fake news abound; families are often fragmented or nonexistent; and primal, Darwinian urges have replaced the rule of law. Denis Johnson’s Poetic Visions of a Fallen World 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

The disconnectedness is part of the point; they are fragments of people’s lives, a patchwork of personal experience, secondhand observation and imagination. Review | ‘Flights’ is a beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Founded in 1988 in two once-dilapidated buildings, the museum offers tours of the restored tenement rooms as well as a permanent collection of artifacts, including document fragments, photographs and furniture. A Museum Devoted to Survivors Now Faces its Own Fight to Live 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

With help from George Emilio Sanchez’s fragmented text, scenes bleed into one another as songs by Bob Dylan and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins play. Dance Review: Motion and Emotion Discover New Pairings 2011-04-01T23:41:49Z

All she retains are vivid fragments — an image of a birthday cake ablaze with candles, the steady pounding of torrential rain — that she can’t piece together. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

This is an artful text: an intricate mosaic of shifting viewpoints, black-and-white photographs and fragmented, unreliable narration. If You Lived Here, You’d Be in Hell by Now 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

In its pages, author Bob Riesman pieces together fragments of a hitherto under-documented life, giving Broonzy's achievements the honor they deserve. Bringing Big Bill Broonzy back into the spotlight 2011-05-23T13:37:28Z

The music education world is fragmented and uncoordinated. Does Henley's report on music education strike the right note? 2011-02-07T13:05:28Z

The work features music from the likes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, but it comes largely in fragments, as from a radio signal barely in range. Review: Kyle Marshall’s History Lessons, in Fragments 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Three rotund people gaze up at a bizarre rooftop construction: a central pole with decorative architectural fragments attached, topped by a cut-glass globe with glowing light bulbs inside. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z

It’s a fragment of history that is bearing on—perhaps even existing simultaneously with—the present-day. The luminous “Transparent” returns early: In the season 2 premiere, the ghost of pre-Hitler Berlin haunts 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

As a whole, the show is a stimulating stew of stuff, a hodgepodge of snippets and fragments and unresolved relationships. Pat O'Neill plays fast and loose at Cherry and Martin 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

An example is "One Summer," a set of fragments in which each paragraph starts with "One summer ... " and goes on to relate, with puzzling diffidence, a series of inconsequential remarks. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z

But in an increasingly fragmented recording industry, Mr. Yankovic said, it was too risky to put out a new album without a parody of a high-profile pop hit to help promote it. Music: Serving Pop Stars, but on a Skewer 2011-06-09T12:00:00Z

Next came Mr. Reich’s “Radio Rewrite,” which integrates barely recognizable fragments of two songs by Radiohead: “Everything in its Right Place” and “Jigsaw Falling Into Place.” Sondheim and Reich at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

This will be planted with more than 2,000 coral fragments from marine nurseries, to help it generate a marine ecosystem. Museum of underwater art to open on Australia's Great Barrier Reef 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Lola draws pictures and begins to assemble her own version of the island from the conflicting fragments of her family’s stories. Next From the Novelist Junot Díaz? A Picture Book 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

There's another, smaller fragment, just down the hill behind the filling station. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z

This familiar fourth-wall-busting trick can seem a little strained, but it’s part of an impressively integrated vision that includes dense, fragmented language woven in with themes of alienation and disengagement. | 'Five Days in March': Finding Refuge From Protests, From Toshiki Okada 2010-05-11T22:31:00Z

Set over two recording sessions, with fragments of the in-progress songs teased throughout, the show is “a valentine and a cautionary tale to the act of creation itself,” Greenfield said. ‘Teeth’ Adaptation and ‘Stereophonic’ in Playwrights Horizons New Season 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

"Their Back Pages" offers us a fragmented and demented look into the back stories of various characters marooned on a remote island in a comic book. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The play within the play is an eerie, fragmented drama about siblings trapped in querulous interdependency and too intimidated by the world — and their tortured family history — to leave the house. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

In her novels, she builds tremendously detailed fantasy worlds; in her nonfiction, she curates a magpie’s nest of fragments — critical theory, song lyrics, personal anecdotes — into insightful ensembles. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Even this short fragment demonstrates Fitzgerald’s poetic care with his style. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Each physical fragment of texts is reproduced twice, once at actual size and once in a large blow-up several feet wide, and the texts are transcribed and translated beside them, in German and English. What’s Missing from the German Cinema 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The pieces — which include Roman and Etruscan sarcophagi, bronze objects, stone sculptures of animals and hundreds of painted terracotta fragments from a sixth-century B.C. temple in Cerveteri – were presented at a news conference Tuesday. Hundreds of Looted Ancient Artifacts Are Returned to Italy 1463-01-28T05:00:00Z

At one point, while the whole group was outside on the deck and engaged in fragmented conversations, the man loudly interrupted his wife while she was talking to another woman. Don’t apologize to me for your rape joke 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Times3” is an audio piece for which the composer Pamela Z, known for fragmenting and processing spoken text into musical expression, remixed interviews conducted about Times Square with various experts on the space. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

“There’s an embarrassment of riches in New York, but the scenes are fragmented,” Mr. Beard said. Microcinemas Pack a Special Mission in a Small Space 2011-09-02T19:03:04Z

But photographs of the Met’s first reconstruction in 1981 show about two dozen fragments set against a modern white plaster bowl. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

In some new works, Ms. Crowner fragments her found shapes for greater complexity, a promising development. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Characters enter and exit without uttering a line of dialogue, and when they do, it’s usually only a fragment or two. Theater Review: ‘A Piece of Work,’ a Computerized ‘Hamlet’ Mash-up at BAM 2013-12-19T21:16:36Z

Five years after the shootings, we were still reeling from the after-effects of this rupture, trying to regroup as a family, but still feeling disoriented and fragmented. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

You trust him even though he’s constantly reminding you that memory is problematic, that we remember things in bits and fragments. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘In the Days of Rain’ 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

The pressure to return the marbles has grown as museum have given back high-profile items including Benin Bronzes, Italian antiquities and other fragments from the Parthenon that were relinquished just last month by the Vatican. After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

These sentence fragments, spoken in a hushed, neutral tone, build into tentative grammatical structures, acquiring a quasi-sense as they do so. A stroll with sound/video artist Gary Hill through his new show 2012-05-02T22:15:08Z

Bermudagrass can also be started in May with sprigs — fragments of runners that look raggedy at first but develop into a thick green lawn within 90 days. Looking for a more resilient and less needy lawn? Try zoysia or bermuda grasses. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

But fragments of their normal lives persisted behind the barbed wire and guard towers. Where is the best place to present Japanese American internees’ art? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The music is often muffled and fragmented, the players prone to error. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z

The assault leaves her traumatized and grappling with hazy, fragmented memories. The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“I operate more with fragments,” she said, before her expressive face flattened: “I just don’t know what the show is.” Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

It’s characteristic of her attitude and daring that after putting her choreography on a rotating platform, as it were, she takes a sledgehammer to it, smashing that opening sequence into fragments at the end. Review: Sit Still and Watch the Dance Revolve 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He found business and court records, spiritual texts, fragments of Talmud, poetry, Torah scrolls, magical incantations and more. 'Sacred Treasure' tells engaging story of early Hebrew documents 2011-01-06T22:03:06Z

A lyrical and fragmented treatment of a real-life espionage case, the drama explores gender, race and power. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

On a separate plate is a slice of sourdough toast spread with whipped schmaltz and fragments of brittle skin; the menu doesn’t call them gribenes, but I will. At Sauvage, European Discipline Meets Gut Instinct 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

In the ruins of the ancient fortress on Erebuni Fortress Hill, fragments of murals with images of sacred animals evoke the late Bronze Age. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vo, a Vietnamese immigrant, typically explores his family’s past in his works, by mixing fragments like cardboard boxes, photographs, flowers and crosses. Danh Vo and Bert Kreuk Settle Legal Dispute Over Artwork 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

In one extreme example, a fragment of a torso, just below outstretched arms, stretches across some 20 feet. Nick Cave Goes Underground 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

What transformed these fragments into a cohesive whole is a touch of avant-garde string scoring by Mr. Martin. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Together, we bent down and assembled the fragments into the familiar, yet strange, remade bird. The Art of Mending 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

This little-heard work is a substantial fragment from around 1787, of a movement from what was probably going to be a full-length piece. Camerata RCO Joins the Pianist Weiyin Chen at SubCulture 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Univision executives followed Bill Clinton by stressing the network's audience of Spanish-speaking viewers is not fragmenting at nearly the rate that English-language networks are seeing. Bill Clinton touts growing power of Latino consumers at Univision upfront 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Greenstein’s work, a gentle violin melody unfolds over a rippling piano accompaniment before evolving into more fragmented, insistent patterns. Review: Lise de la Salle and Members of the Knights, Traveling Through Time 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

You might be watching a little fragment of activity in one place, while something completely different was happening beyond your field of vision. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Yet the differences between the two — evidenced in the younger director’s rushed pacing, fragmented shooting style and peremptory characterizations — are more instructive, suggesting a filmmaker with no time for complexity or careful world building. Review: In ‘Morgan,’ a Snow White With Lips Stained Red 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Arranged on three sides of the ballroom, they at once fragment. Dance Review | Joffrey Ballet: Enchantment in a Race Against the Clock 2010-02-22T23:39:00Z

Scraps of familiar music, shards of old prayers, fragments of yesterday’s speeches filled in the gaps and elicited the usual emotions, papering over the missing niceties. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

There is a difference, she says, between a whole skeleton or a preserved body and fragments. Why ancient remains are a bone of contention 2010-10-25T19:00:00Z

With the preacher’s shuddering, convulsive movements, he offers fragmented human motion as a metaphor for social disintegration. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

The British authorities are also continuing to investigate the reported theft of papyrus fragments from the Sackler Library. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

In hip-hop especially, artists frequently incorporate fragments of earlier songs as a kind of wink, or nod to a forebear. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The most complete scrolls are held by the Israel Museum, with more pieces and smaller fragments found in other institutions and private collections. 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online 2011-09-27T00:31:04Z

Called “Shakespeare Machine,” the piece features 37 LED display screens flashing fragments of speech from Shakespeare’s plays that continuously form new visual combinations. Public Theater Renovation Includes a Lounge and a Bar 2012-09-21T23:24:13Z

The museum’s collection includes part of the fuselage of American Airlines Flight 11, the passenger jet that struck the north tower; steel fragments from that tower’s facade; and the charred shell of a fire truck. September 11 Memorial Lays Off Staff Members and Furloughs Others 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

“If you look closely, it’s not just a seascape, ” she said recently, speaking via Skype from her Rio studio, “but parts of angels, and other historic Baroque motifs, all fragmented, reordered and turbulent.” Waves of Dark History Break on an Olympic Pool 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Machover’s “Valis,” commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the Pompidou Center, used speech and song and synthesizer to dramatize the hero’s own fragmented view of the world. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z

The scene taught movie technicians that blood, puffs of smoke, and even fragments of clothing and flesh were part of the way bullets worked. Bonnie and Clyde: The story of a scene 2010-10-17T10:44:00Z

They chant different phrases while orbiting one another like celestial bodies, so only fragments are comprehensible. Dance Review: Exploring Time in the American Realness Festival 2014-01-21T22:04:18Z

The reader must piece together Severin’s tale — not only of what happened on Venus but also of her childhood — through an assortment of documents such as diary entries, interviews, gossip columns and screenplay fragments. Our top science-fiction and fantasy picks for October 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

A similar structure underpins “You Are,” from 2004, set to aphoristic fragments from Jewish religious and philosophical sources. Review: One Birthday Tribute (of Many) for Steve Reich 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Eisenman had wrapped the building in brick fragments that were meant to recall an armory that once stood on the site. Chris Burden's architectural intelligence 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

In many ways a citizen of the world, he epitomised what he described as the Caribbean mind, "a mosaic of cultural fragments – Amerindian, African, European and Asian". Jan Carew obituary 2012-12-21T16:59:30Z

For Mr. Wilson is a magician at whipping up exquisite dreamscapes, fluid yet fragmented visions that seem to have stepped out of the darkness of your sleeping mind. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z

He still sees baby stingrays, snappers and sharks and, post-storm, a preponderance of lobsters on mangrove island fragments dispersed by the hurricane. 44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

These fragments — some scrutable, others barely — add up to a sentiment of moralistic uplift. Music Review: ?Satyagraha,? by Philip Glass, at Met Opera - Review 2011-11-06T22:10:16Z

“I couldn’t imagine awarding the prize to a fragment of an opera,” he told the Albuquerque newspaper. Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

But ours is such a fragmented whom-do-you-trust age, even Lincoln can be readily and shamelessly misinterpreted. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Haphazard fragments form an atlas of my new friend. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The Smithsonian Channel promoted the fragment as "one of the most significant discoveries of all time." Show on Jesus' wife papyrus delayed amid doubts 2012-10-02T12:15:13Z

Older viewers may find themselves nodding along, remembering the triplets story as fragments emerge. Review: The Surreal, Heartbreaking Case of ‘Three Identical Strangers’ 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

If these fragments attain a particular elegiac gravity, Shephard never allows them to stray into unearned sentiment. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Some fragments of bone that made their way to the sacristies and reliquaries of Europe were surely once a part of this saint or that. What you don’t know about the Holy Grail 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

The immediate aftermath of the shooting is a blur of fragmented memories. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

What we know about Hart Island, one of the largest mass grave sites in the country, we know from fragments. ‘Hart Island’ Gives Voice to Stories That Might Otherwise Be Lost 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

His flickering consciousness ranges over great temporal distance, blending present-day observations with fragments from a disintegrating past. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Reddit’s “findthebostonbombers” thread drew a lot of criticism for jumping to conclusions after hearing fragments of information on a police scanner. Reddit apologizes for falsely accusing student of bombings 2013-04-23T12:18:00Z

Although political strife simmers on the edges, and fragments of inflammatory rhetoric are heard, the issues and personalities and events remain unspecified. | 'The Hunter': ?The Hunter? by Rafi Pitts - Review 2012-01-03T23:01:40Z

In fact, the close quarters and fragmented experience add layers of meaning to the show’s premise: to explore how textiles shape and reveal ideas about identity, history, and labor. Review: ‘Everything has been material for scissors to shape’ is a flow of textiles, interrupted 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

She has a diptych in which one painting has pieces missing and the fragments reappear in the second. Art and minds: hospital trust brings in culture to promote wellbeing 2012-02-08T15:24:00Z

The five fragments were removed from the exhibit. Museum of Bible Removes Dead Sea Scrolls It Suspects Are Fake 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, a swashbuckling French archaeologist and longtime nemesis of Shapira’s, had been granted a few minutes with several of the fragments, after promising to hold his judgment until the museum issued its report. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

The sculptures Mr. Vo began making in 2015, for example, combine fragments of Roman marble statuary with slices of Medieval figures, especially wood images of the Madonna and Child eroded nearly beyond illegibility. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The pieces left behind told fragments of a story. Detroit: A city in foreclosure 2013-02-14T21:06:00Z

Stipe mediates his vision of the world through both window screens and computer screens in these pages, revealing an undeniable likeness between the fragmenting effects of wire mesh and of a pixelated zoom. Michael Stipe on Working While He Sleeps and Savoring Mistakes 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The Bible’s first five books, for example, possessed a special status: a fragment of Leviticus shown here is written using an ancient paleo-Hebrew script, affirming the text’s antiquity. Exhibition Review: ?The Dead Sea Scrolls? at Discovery Times Square - Review 2011-10-28T22:51:17Z

American culture is being increasingly disconnected and fragmented. Jon Katz new book explores life after pets die 2011-09-25T17:56:17Z

All the while they interrupt each other with fragmented thoughts and exclamations, that is, when the storytellers aren’t being interrupted by sudden blasts of pop music. Review: In ‘Misdemeanor Dream,’ Speaking to the Unseen 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

He relates this history with fragments like flowers, cardboard boxes, photographs and crosses. Danh Vo and Bert Kreuk’s Legal Battle Pits Artist Against Collector 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Any art object that contained even a fragment of the black female form I wrote down. Broken, Defaced, Unseen: The Hidden Black Female Figures of Western Art 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Large, decorative friezes of polychrome glazed bricks, some of them molded into bas-reliefs, line the walls, pieced together like giant puzzles from thousands of fragments. Persian Collections at Louvre Are Worth the Journey 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Other church fragments ended up at Columbia University’s architecture school, but no records show what happened after that. Antiques: Madison Square Presbyterian Church Fragments Found 2011-12-01T22:39:26Z

Small stories and larger histories, piles of coal and fragments of lives fill The Deep of the Modern, as this exhibition is subtitled. Manifesta 9: a rich seam of art in a disused mine 2012-08-06T17:37:05Z

Trusted to carry a pile of precious famille rose plates during a departmental move, he stepped down an open manhole and reduced them to fragments. Julian Thompson obituary 2011-03-02T18:17:56Z

Backed by guitars and drums under a screen showing fragments of black-and-white films, they are not reinventing the wheel, but are inarguably striking. Cat's Eyes ? review 2011-03-21T18:26:59Z

She used a sledgehammer to create a crease in the marble slab, lined with fiberglass mesh underneath to keep the fragments from falling apart. An Artist at Home on the Fault Lines 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

This old and fleeting fragment slips in from nowhere, to drip its poison; such subtle intrusions are Trevor’s way. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Where Oliveira perceives deep and sometimes tragic continuities between antiquity and the present, Godard finds fragments, including splinters of the lost dreams of modernity alluded to in his film's title. 'Film Socialisme': a Godardian voyage that ebbs and flows 2011-08-04T20:00:15Z

The second disc then contains the studio performance that Goldschmidt conducted immediately afterwards, with an announcer placing the fragments of the incomplete movements in context. Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 ? review 2011-01-27T22:10:01Z

The script is spare, alternating between soliloquies and scenes that aren’t naturalistic dialogue but exchanges of fragments. ‘God’s Fool’ Review: A Singing, Beat Poet Saint 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

His “Studies for Player Piano” that accompany this drama are strange and compelling; their several simultaneous strains and fragments contain blues, jazz and chaos within a larger modernist collage. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

But as the sections and songs wore on, there was increasingly little hope that the fragmented “Love Letter” would produce a greater whole. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The angular fragments of phrases that he thrusts out in the fast-paced “Street Runner with Child” seem framed by the quick, dramatic silences that separate them. Revisiting Sonny Rollins’s Score for “Alfie,” a Musical Masterwork That Transcended the Film 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

But for a moment, to the reader looking back, Sjon’s glittering fragments seem to have been reflecting all along a larger story of desire and loss, one that can only be gestured at, not told. A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Several of its isolated fragments of melody seemed designed to morph and spin away from the opening motifs, the quicker the better. Review: Nate Wooley’s Festival Delivers a New, Idiosyncratic Repertoire for Trumpet 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

But the fact that the fragment existed was not widely known. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

"But since 9/11 that community has fragmented along religious lines, between Muslims and non-Muslims." British-Asian cinema: the sequel 2011-02-17T22:00:01Z

It is not clear how the dozens of fragments that were used to reconstruct the kylix came to be so widely dispersed. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The farmhouse, once the center of a lucrative tobacco plantation, is now a fragment of its former glory, a surreal mix of fresh gore and abandoned art. Review | In Paul Yoon’s ‘Run Me to Earth,’ three orphans struggle to survive in the deadliest place on earth 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The pianist Barbara Carroll’s “My Funny Valentine,” interwoven with fragments of Bach, evoked an impressionistic floral paradise. Music Review: New York Cabaret Convention at Rose Hall - Review 2011-10-21T23:34:33Z

Even more effective is the way the text circles particular fragments—“ducks, Newburyport,” for example—layering them with meaning as their salience to the story becomes clear. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The layout of This Is Tomorrow created a futuristic landscape from fragments of found material and imagery, just as Doctor Who would fabricate alien worlds from silver foil and plastic bottles. Daleks are a legacy of British pop art 2013-02-25T15:04:55Z

Presented like this, however, his characters become shards of a single fragmented personality, a man plagued by the projections of his own mind. Macbeth 2012-06-17T14:53:14Z

Any migration is likely to face many of the challenges previous platform migrations have faced: content loss, fragmented communities, broken social networks and shifted community norms. Mass migration from Twitter is likely to be an uphill battle – just ask ex-Tumblr users 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

The company that owns the resort and the fort, which is known as the Fort William Henry Museum, said the bone fragments in the box were being properly cared for. They Died in the French and Indian War. Their Remains Await Reburial. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Quark” proceeds in brightly colored fragments that establish a given sonic texture before introducing a newcomer sound that, by turns, destabilizes or enriches it. Review: A Composer Inspired by Quarks and Chromosomes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Any of her efforts can be embellished with fragments of bone and shell or fake pearls and shiny metal beads. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Several of these entrances and exits are where the choreography is at its most masterful, notably in slow processions that quietly fragment one way or another. Dance Review: Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan at BAM - Review 2011-10-13T22:30:37Z

“On the Transmigration of Souls,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, sets to music fragments of text largely taken from missing-persons posters and makeshift memorials near Ground Zero. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

And then there are more questionable artifacts, like the fragment of the crutch Booth used during his 12 days on the run, which Mr. Alford bought from a family near Port Royal, Va. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he is assessing the impact of such disjointedness on the helpless members of her family, who without even being aware of it sometimes find themselves adopting Gladys’s fragmented worldview. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The “door” panel at the bottom, the dragon motif along the sides, even the corners where fragments of brocade appear stitched together, their patterns not quite matching up—all of it is trompe l’oeil painting. ‘Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia’ Review: The Very Fabric of Asian Societies 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

Although fragments of this are superb, as a whole it needs a sharper focus on the plotting, and it also feels too long. My Life in CIA – review 2012-05-29T17:08:52Z

The Cowan’s lot, which had belonged to the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, came with nail-studded original wheels and a few fragments of yokes that soldiers and draft animals used to drag the weapon. Antiques: Antiques: ?Playing House? Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:42Z

Without any known recordings of the performance, “The Four Moons” has been fragmented into a few hazy memories, with some clues left by reviewers. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

In a sad way, the characters in the Bathtub are an artistic reflection of this fragmented world. Hushpuppy, anarchist antihero? 2012-08-09T19:40:00Z

Included among the items she returned were two mosaic tiles, two fragments of amphora jugs and a piece of a wall. Tourist returns stolen artifacts from Pompeii after claiming to suffer curse: 'I was young and stupid' 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

His words are like misheard bits of official reality: fragmented lyrical announcements, copy heisted from the data cloud. Mark E. Smith Shows His Staying Power 2010-04-30T19:55:00Z

They found fragments of the original framing of the glass and some fragments dating to the 17th century, possibly part of the original glass. Bernini’s dazzling chapel even brighter after restoration 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The panels appear variously broken or fragmented, propped up into makeshift structures, often studded with flowers or other vegetation. Artist Rodrigo Valenzuela's shrines of disillusionment 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Like confetti – tiny fragments of apparently isolated, random awfulness that turn out not to be isolated or random, actually… everywhere. Lauren Laverne: How Rolf Harris bit me and got away with it 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Early Tuesday at Millennium Park, atop the cement patio overlooking Crown Fountain, a half-dozen hardhat-wearing construction workers surrounded a large pile of steel fragments, as if sizing it up. Sculptor's spheres of interest in Millennium Park 2011-03-30T01:11:00Z

I read the fragment of that article several times over the next couple of years. My brush with the Holy Grail 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

His intention is not to create finished, gleaming, varnished objects, but great stumps or fragments or semi-formed embryological expressions: essays in the incomplete which allude to the impermanence of everything in the physical world. Cannes film festival review ? Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 2010-05-16T17:14:00Z

Perhaps they will object to the painting's spectacular new frame, made from fragments of a 16th-century original in order to recreate its original altarpiece setting. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z

She observes and collects these fragments, hoping that, later on, she’ll be able to find connections between them and make better sense of a scientific world view that is fascinatingly foreign to her. An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Each evening at dinnertime he tells tales of his 3,000-year-old experiences, prompted by the voice inside a rotten fragment of the Argo's hull, which he holds to his ear like a telephone receiver. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z

Told in alternating perspectives, fragments, reports, stage-play format, footnotes, reimagined Greek myths and, at one point, a drawing, “Fish in Exile” manipulates form as a means to exploring its themes thoroughly. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The show, “Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Couple of an Age,” juxtaposes portraits of Lindbergh and fragments of his planes with their likenesses on toys and cosmetics containers. The Lindberghs, From Triumph to Tragedy, an Exhibition at Morven 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Wild Oats CEO Tom Casey says the organic industry is historically fragmented, with small and inefficient companies relying on wholesalers to distribute their products for a premium. Wal-Mart Promises Organic Food for Everyone 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Now grooving and swinging her hips, now weeping abjectly, Zaino finally cuts loose to a strobe light, which reduces her movements to flickering fragments, as if in an old film. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z

In an especially tender image his sculpture “Little French Girl” seems to sidle up to a cuplike sculpture resting on an “Endless Column” fragment as if this combination were a comforting parent. Art In Review: CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI: ‘Brancusi: The Photographs’ 2012-05-31T21:30:38Z

And I am holding in my hand a beautiful, privately printed fragment, in a simple, burgundy binding, Austerlitz and After: Tracking Sebald by Iain Sinclair. WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy 2013-05-13T16:17:59Z

The custodian is engaged in the daily battle to keep these fragments white and gleaming. Christian K?bke: Nordic exposure 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z

This remains the core of his argument – that human beings favour their own sort and are suspicious of outsiders, so mass immigration fragments society, strains the welfare state and loosens the ties of the nation. The British Dream by David Goodhart; The Diversity Illusion by Ed West – review 2013-04-14T08:00:02Z

“Our relationship,” he writes, “largely depended upon my never becoming fluent, on my having an excuse to speak in enigmatic fragments or koans.” Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

One of post-dubstep's bright lights is Mount Kimbie … Their debut album pushes the sound into lonely, fragmented places, but locates pockets of warmth. Guardian First Album award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:15:01Z

The language of film gives you a partial reality, a fragmented reality and you have to interpret it. How a migrant woman's death influenced Alejandro Iñárritu's Oscar-winning VR project 'Carne y Arena' 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

That decade, Marker, always the innovator, made a CD-Rom called Immemory, composed of stills, film clips, music, text and fragments of sound. Chris Marker obituary 2012-07-30T11:57:53Z

One of the lost fragments is the Times Square ballet from “On the Town,” which Mr. Carlyle has used in the finale, in what he described as a “mash-up of choreography.” Bringing Jerome Robbins’s Broadway Home to City Ballet 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

It’s Christmastime, and every now and then a fragment of “Jingle Bell Rock” interrupts the generic pumped-up soundtrack. Movie Review: Ethan Hawke Runs Down Everything in Sight in ‘Getaway’ 2013-08-29T22:11:48Z

What could be more honest than filming the world as it passes by and presenting the fragments exactly as they are? The Avant-Garde Filmmaker Who Tried to Tell the Truth 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Lyrical fragments occasionally emerged, with particular sweetness in the bass flute. Review: Art and Nature Blend in a Concert by Contemporaneous 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

That’s at work here, too — an effort to gather up the fragments of a woman’s life and argot and make of it something whole. ‘My Broken Language’ Review: Piecing Together a Life of Many Dialects 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

“And while there remain great galleries in the area that are thriving, the geography is too fragmented.” Scene/ Seen: At Home, Again, in the West End 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z

Jagged fragments of sound gradually coalesce into patterns that suggest traces of 19th-century chamber music, but reinvented and reformed to offer a totally new experience. Britten's War Requiem; Music in the Space Time Continuum – review 2013-06-29T23:06:15Z

But lately Cox has grown disillusioned with the singles-driven, fragmented music business. Deborah Cox loves the 'beginning of a new chapter' 2013-04-09T12:55:08Z

Unfortunately, most of the rest of the songs are fragments, reprises or ensemble numbers so spliced with dialogue and served up in small bits as to nullify their expressive value. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Words are recited in swirling repetitions of monotone fragments. David Lang’s ‘Battle Hymns’ Are Performed on the Intrepid 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The idea that antiquity arrives to us in fragments is hammered home by Maria Loboda’s “Interrupted Pillar,” a column hanging from the ceiling and sprouting from the floor but empty in between. The (Really) Old and New Meet in Naples 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The show, “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan,” has sixth-century statues and fragments that he distributed after they were torn out of archaeological sites in northern China. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z

Shot in handsome, often vividly contrasting black and white, “____ Year” weighs in as an attempt at poetic expressionism, a bid to create a visual representation of Colleen’s diffuse and fragmented mind. | '___ Year': Ellen Barkin Stars in Cam Archer?s ?____ Year? - Review 2011-09-20T22:48:20Z

Here, Freud’s figure has been doubled into facing mirror images, with the one on the right painted as a kind of jigsaw puzzle of colored fragments. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

All I have left are shattered bits and fragments of the languages I tried to learn — my brain is like an archeological site, full of relics from earlier linguistic civilizations. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z

Drones resonated across the venue, interrupted by shards of noise and fragments of melody, this time to images of desert lanscapes where the US military have tested nuclear weapons. Unsound Adelaide: Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin; Robin Fox; Raime; Trinity 2013-03-15T04:57:00Z

A fragment of the same motif later bolstered her sprightly rendition of “Autumn in New York.” Music Review: Barbara Carroll Opens an Engagement at Birdland 2014-02-11T21:34:44Z

The fragment of poem, which entitles one of these newly acquired etchings, sums it up: "Everything is an attemptTo be human." William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z

Their room in the Turner prize exhibition contains a 45-minute film made of fragments of other films, a row of TV sets playing an obscure documentary about Ancient Greece, and a densely packed book. Which artist should win the Turner prize? 2010-12-06T14:27:00Z

The result has been an industry fragmented, with Australia's game developers left looking for ways to express their creativity and make some money. Game on for PAX Australia as Penny Arcade Expo hits Melbourne 2013-07-21T23:47:00Z

A fragment of the Bobby McFerrin hit, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is heard twice. Music Review: Bringing Out the Bad Girl for Some Tough Times 2011-03-24T22:06:02Z

The up side of fragmented digital distribution is that the Brits will become less relevant to anyone under 30. Alternative Brit Award nominations 2013 2013-01-10T01:57:51Z

Those unfold “Damages” style, in jagged, artfully sequenced fragments that withhold as much as they reveal. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Children will be encouraged to make their work sing by adding notes and fragments from recycled sheet music. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:32:27Z

But that project’s thrill lies in seeing the very first fragments of pop songs that have played millions of times. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

So equipped, she patched together the museum, which was also her home, from countless architectural fragments to create an inside-out Venetian palazzo. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

Here, Alex Katz’s set and costumes — there are beach towel shrouds, floating clouds and brilliantly colored unitards — create a spectacular union with the dancers’ disjointed, fragmented bends and jerks. Dancing at Paul Taylor, a New Generation Finds Its Footing 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

She called the works “frustulas,” from a Latin word meaning fragments. A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

Typically, if you only hear a fragment of every set, that’s O.K. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Instead of too much state, Judah finds virtually no state, with Russia a "fragmented and feudalised society". Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah – review 2013-06-27T11:00:02Z

The silence is punctuated not only by their feet and occasional counts but also by fragments of taped sound by Zeena Parkins; this contributed nothing, as did the white curtains surrounding the stage space. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z

Certain plasters – like the Burghers of Calais assemblage – show him making something completely strange and original out of all these fragments. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

Aitken, 48, is a landscape artist of sorts whose work explores the abstract, ephemeral terrain of the mind and our fragmented, collective digital consciousness. Sneak peek: Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Those fragments were later matched to the original, which had been fitted with a stone replacement arm and ear. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

The analysis was performed by a German research institution, which analyzed the ink and sediment layers of the fragments, said Heather Cirmo, a spokeswoman for the Museum of the Bible, on Tuesday. Museum of Bible Removes Dead Sea Scrolls It Suspects Are Fake 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

As the actors intermittently whip out their smartphones, or we stare at the monitor, the game here demands that everyone’s attention is partial and fragmented. ‘Dead Behind These Eyes,’ a Karaoke Play 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Here it was arrested at the fringe of a slowly swirling carpet of floating fragments. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z

Firefighters peeled back the metal sheet of a collapsed roof as the anthropologists picked up visibly charred bone fragments, sorting them into paper bags. Rain on the way as search for missing continues after California... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

I once made my boyfriend an unforgettable meal: a pallid omelette broken into fragments, a handful of cheesy Doritos and a mini Babybel. Who does the housework? Five Guardian writers reveal all 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

The museum established by the Green family of Oklahoma, who own U.S. craft-store chain Hobby Lobby, funded research over the past two years into whether its 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments were genuine. U.S. Bible museum says five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments fake 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

But “Frog King” is a story in fragments, and they were not at all written in the order in which they appear. Garth Greenwell on Vacations 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Reich used taped fragments of people speaking in some of his earliest works from the mid-1960s, a technique he recalls here. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s no absolute narrative structure, there’s no beginning, no end, and yet you’re there for 90 minutes watching fragments of life. The film gives a lot of freedom to the audience.” ‘Sacro GRA’ Highlights the Open Roads Film Festival 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

I am anxious to protect it, for it pains me, it pains my femininity, to see it fragmented.” A memoir of female lust 2013-06-09T00:00:00Z

Morrocco’s models sometimes appear as bashful fragments, their limp forms sunk in a sofa or snarled around a tree. A Gay Photographer Chronicles His Intergenerational Trysts 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

The first sound on the album is the crackle of static over a fragmented beat. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z

“Poems” does include some of the unpublished poems and fragments first issued in 2006 in the controversial collection “Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box,” as well as some other fugitive material. Books of The Times: Fighting The New Yorker Over Extra Commas and Steaming Cowflops 2011-02-08T22:00:14Z

Then a trio of singers — two women, one man — perform a long parade of death fragments, staged with shaggy disjointedness. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Their fragmented story, and the loss of their transformative love, constitute the main narrative of “A Song of Songs.” Review: ‘A Song of Songs’ Makes a Sacrament of Remembrance 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

It is the reunion of these children, on a Ghanaian beach, towards which the tale unravels in its opaque and fragmented fashion. Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi – review 2013-04-03T08:00:04Z

In “Absolute Jest,” the composer’s previous collaboration with the group, Adams borrowed fragments from Beethoven’s string quartets. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Forna was born in 1964 in Glasgow, where her father was doing a medical internship, but left for Sierra Leone as an infant, and had a "fragmented childhood". Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

The vast expanses of shrub-steppe lands that birds such as sage grouse and sage sparrows require to survive are disappearing, fragmented by housing developments and agriculture. Jump into bird-watching with Sagebrush bird count 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Indeed, out of everyone employed across the fragmented U.S. food system, consumers may have the least professional training in handling and preparing food. About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Told in fragmented, strobe-lighted chapters that depict an assortment of misfits, outsiders and eccentrics, the novel sometimes feels like the TV show “The Office” as rewritten with a magnifying glass by Nicholson Baker. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z

When a magazine asked for a portrait, he sent fragments of different photographs. A Global Celebration of Design 2010-09-13T07:24:00Z

They added the predella fragments to it, and supplemented it with a selection of four smaller 14th-century altarpieces, intact or partial, from American collections. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z

“The Beautiful Ones” is a curious, fantastically moving hybrid of scrapbook and fragmented memoir, bookended by Piepenbring’s recollections about working on the project before and after Prince’s death. Review | ‘The Beautiful Ones’ isn’t the memoir Prince envisioned, but it’s a moving look at the singer’s life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

You hear — and characters overhear — crazy stories, cracked bits of wisdom, fragments of longer conversations that threaten to distract you from the main action, like this: The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Why, the crippling paranoia born of a fragmented society, in which everyone is ultimately alone. There's no such thing as a state of the nation play 2011-03-22T16:40:44Z

There’s Haydn and Mozart, to be sure, but also Schnittke, with his “Moz-Art à la Haydn,” a piece composed entirely of fragments of music by, yes, Haydn and Mozart. 4 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“All the myths we create, all the symbols we make are always rooted in something real; they represent fragments of the past,” said Armstrong-Oma, the archaeology professor. When Darkness Falls, Three Friends Find Ancient Art 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

I was the eldest child, with two younger sisters; we were a fragmented family – my parents had divorced when I was 11 and left Paris, my mother to the south, my father to the countryside. Experience: I fell in love with an older man 2012-12-14T22:59:46Z

But now audiences are increasingly fragmented, with many people favoring single tickets, especially for contemporary opera. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

"This fragment of song is poignant, wistful, beautiful and unfinished". Gibb's final song to be released 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

He started studying the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, India and China — including fragments of musical scores — to see how their people viewed the laws of nature and interpreted them as music. After 30 Albums and 3 Recent Prizes, a Jazzman Flirts With the Mainstream 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Her statement noted that duck bone fragment was found in one of the containers, along with remains from goats, pigs, fish and snails. Mallard to go? Dig of Pompeii fast-food place reveals tastes 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

The fragmented TV audience makes it tough for any comedian to have Carson’s clout. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Offill is a smart writer with a canny sense of pacing; just when you want to abandon the fragmented puzzle pieces of the novel, she reveals a moment of breathtaking tenderness. Revisiting Marriage and ‘Dept. of Speculation’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

His language hits the reader like shrapnel in a metalworker’s studio — fragmented and sharp-fitting for novels so packed with shattering turns. David Vann’s ‘Aquarium’: dark story of family’s dysfunction 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

When they were dry, he peeled them off, removing fragments of wall painting from six caves, but ruining many. To have and to hold 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

To my ear, it was the strongest part of the program, an honorable new entry in a long compositional tradition of fragmented nostalgia. NSO, Barto show that “pleasing new German concerto” is not an oxymoron in new Rihm work 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The wandering eye commences an investigative game of Where's Wally, scrutinising every inch of the work for fragmented remains of the original newspaper. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

But is the article itself a self-referential cutting and pasting of fragments that serves as a substitute for sustained original analysis? Letters: Exhibit a for Mash-Ups? 2010-03-25T15:55:00Z

Midway through, the track stages a near-collapse, with fragmented lyrics and bits of dead air, then grandly reassembles itself. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

The movie is bizarre, fragmented, challenging – not a masterpiece, but glinting with life and ideas. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z

The entries are short, tightly written fragments — a funny, absurd, poignant and melancholy gathering of things that once were, but are now gone. The listicle perfected: Henri Lefebvre's 'The Missing Pieces' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The room is cluttered with the old man’s books, tools and bric-a-brac, objects that fill Finn’s mind with fragmented memories of him. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Often, there is a little fragment of hope, if only for a few more weeks of life, as medicine is almost always about probabilities rather than certainties. An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

“Next Thing” is her longest album, but still a collection of fragments — 15 songs, none of them over 2 minutes 45 seconds. Review: Frankie Cosmos’s ‘Next Thing’ Captures Teenage Mystery in Bursts 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

It seems silly to confuse and fragment audiences and donors this way: Without all the divisions, more money would be available for stronger work. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

The daylong immersion should probably come with warnings for those of us susceptible to ear worms, those little melodic fragments that stick incessantly in the memory. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

As he wrenches forth fragments from the spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” the words octaves apart and isolated by long silences, the evening takes on the tone of a funeral march. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

“That the scale of opera can work at any length: narrative arc or a fragment of a narrative arc.” Video Operas You Can Watch on Your Phone 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Curator Carlos Basualdo took his inspiration from the four-hour dance "event" that was performed in New York shortly after Cunningham's death, in which his former dancers performed – and added to – fragments of his work. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

Directness and vulnerability, without pathos, turned out to characterize both movements, which became, in this reading, a point-counterpoint rather than two fragments waiting for a conclusion that never got written. A renowned American orchestra shows its refinement 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

The column was pieced together from several fragments that were found on the site. Persian Collections at Louvre Are Worth the Journey 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Speaking of which: In December, Spectrum will present a series of studio performances inspired by Cunningham’s “EVENTS,” which pulled excerpts from the company’s repertory into one fragmented, intermission-less performance. Where to see dance in Seattle, from classical to cutting-edge 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Curiouser and curiouser, this weird melodrama that was dismissed by most critics but surely worth a look for its willful mixture of dream fragments with aspects of the director's own nightmare autobiography. Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Twixt in Toronto: The Third D Is for Dementia 2011-09-16T17:10:00Z

“A laser light breaks up the tattoo particles and fragments them,” said Dr. Roy Geronemus, director of the Laser and Skin Surgery Center of New York. Why Do You Tattoo? 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The trouble is that these set pieces, in addition to feeling fragmented and elusive in meaning, are dwarfed by their surroundings. Manifold Motion's 'Compos Mentis': a little too spacey 2012-03-20T18:45:04Z

The first movement began with subdued sustained tone, with an ominous, questioning, fragmented phrase in low strings underneath. Review: The Philharmonic Puts a Young Composer’s Twist on Bruckner 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

But presented back to back, with the performers changing costumes off to the side, the works seemed more like fragments of dances than complete works; they could also nod too closely to the lyrics. Review: Stephen Petronio Looks to the NYC of His Past for Inspiration 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

He said he enjoyed imagining the immediate aftermaths of the original breaks, as disconsolate owners swept up fragments strewed across stone and tile floors. Antiques: Repaired China, the Potter John Bennett, Schoolgirl Rugs 2013-01-17T22:21:55Z

Taylor even assembled a segment of fragments that barely made it to our ears — forgotten or abandoned by Beethoven, but necessary to the story. Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“The loss of the Christian religion is why the West has been fragmenting for some time, a process that is accelerating,” he writes, sometimes referring to the current climate in almost End Times terms. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, eight women and six men meet in a misty nighttime forest — the beautiful lighting is by Vinicio Cheli — in a series of fragmented encounters that suggest, but do not impose, narrative. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through … one discovers the true design.” James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

A new exhibition at the British Museum is displaying religious relics including fragments of the Cross and three thorns thought to be from Jesus Christs's Crown of Thorns. VIDEO: Fragments of the Cross on display 2011-06-22T12:09:48Z

But I am here in this nondescript building at the edge of the City of London to see something else, a collection of fragile carved fragments of ivory, small enough to fit into your palm. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

All we see are fragments of fleshy, entangled limbs, filmed so up-close that it’s impossible to discern any recognizable shapes or forms. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

An assemblage of twigs accompanies a replica of a text fragment from Tel Gezer in Israel; Mould writes that it is probably the oldest surviving document in Hebrew. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity

Beatles samples emerge out of the murk, like fragments of memory: the chorus of Tell Me What You See counter-pointed with the climactic "Don't Believe in Beatles" from Lennon's God. Jon Savage on song: The Residents create the first Beatles mash-up 2010-06-21T10:37:00Z

In an age of fragmented media, Trump in the White House and a nation either appalled or thrilled by his views, unifiers seem in short supply. Alan Alda: 'It's amazing that most of us live as if we're not gonna die' 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

With this fragment of a sentence, Fitzgerald gives Hemingway the familiar writing-class advice—show, don’t tell; less is more; and what is left out can sometimes be more meaningful than what is included. Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions in "The Sun Also Rises" 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

His wife's complaints had been fragments of countless lies floating around in his head, fragments he hadn't been able to reassemble into a complete picture. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z

A cute postmodern riff, mostly on Strauss’s waltz-crazy “Rosenkavalier,” it follows a woman for 10 minutes as she recalls fragments of an old relationship. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

Stylistically, McCann leans very heavily on one particular syntactical formation, the sentence capped by two or more lilting verbless fragments, which comes to seem like a mechanical affectation. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z

She collected scraps from the streets of her SoHo neighborhood—wood, newsprint, cardboard, and metal—and pasted the fragments into abstract two-dimensional compositions. New York’s Pace Gallery shows early Louise Nevelson collages 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

But ultimately, memory isn’t the capricious, fragmenting prism of classic Stoppard. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

It’s more interested in liquid fragments of sound than in the conventional tightness of verse-chorus-verse, in “songs” instead of songs. Alabama Shakes’s latest is a departure gone too far 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Harvill’s British edition, also published this month, is a scrapbook of charming stock images, culled from the Library of London, that echo fragments of the story. Illustrating Murakami 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

But soon these fragments coalesce into thematic lines, drums tap and ripple, strings break into frenetic bursts. Music Review: The American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall 2013-01-20T20:34:10Z

This hidden rustle of conversation between fragments slowly reveals the enormity of the whole. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z

The fragment concludes, euphorically, with an intimate and erotic chant affirming the female body: Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The original filmmakers, who include Flora Gomes and Sana Na N’Hada, narrate the fragments, speaking to a generation largely ignorant of that history. Review: ‘Spell Reel’ Shows a Revolution Filmed, on the Leader’s Orders 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s also evident, however, that Cunningham, characteristically, was fragmenting and splicing. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z

“Lost Somebody” finds Tip divining his friend’s spirit in the recorded fragments left behind, trying to stitch the album together, mourn, and make his best friend’s memory proud. Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

After he purchased the other fragments for the museum, von Bothmer surprisingly found shards in his own private collection that nearly completed the piece, including the final fragment he gave to the Met in 1994. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

If it was a world in which reading, writing and memory itself were outlawed, how might you reconstruct fragments of the past in your mind? Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z

The fragmented plot and abrupt style reflect a newly shattered world. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Instrumental lines emerge from atmospheric murmurs, trying to coalesce into melodic fragments. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a battle that reaches absurdist heights as they break into different fragments of songbook standards, like “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” sung in aggressive counterpoint. Review: ‘Old Times,’ Where the Past Is a Dangerous Place 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Visitors to Barcelona will all sooner or later find themselves in Antoni Gaudí’s fairytale Park Güell, admiring the view of the city from one of the sinuous benches made up of fragments of coloured tiles. Gaudí’s partner in iconic Barcelona design finally gets the limelight 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Its numbers are so small, and its habitat so fragmented, that it is in danger of going extinct, say the scientists who studied it. Scientists name new species of orangutan but warn that it could soon disappear 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

This small cell, or fragment, is permanently repeated through the whole piece, but every time with a different face. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

His guitar evoked the sounds of an aluminum factory, with clipped chords hissing like drill presses and fragmented notes functioning as abrasive shrapnel. Gang of Four turn back the clock with vital, aggressive show 2011-02-12T11:21:00Z

But in an interview on Monday, the Walker’s executive director, Olga Viso, said the Dakota were debating whether the wood fragments would indeed be burned, as previously announced. Dakota People Are Debating Whether to Burn ‘Scaffold’ Fragments 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

In “Say Goodbye,” a stomp-and-shout that echoes Gary Glitter leads into forceful, fragmented thoughts on violence in “the city of damage control,” hinting at police shootings. Review: ‘Revolution Radio’ Finds Green Day Still Unsatisfied 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Her artistic vision for “Mending Fences,” Ms. MacDonald says, reflects these angry times — with political systems broken and social relationships fragmented. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

The double album that followed in late November — officially titled “The Beatles,” but forever referred to as the “White Album” — brought together splintered fragments of the group’s experiences. In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

He digested the form of abattis – or limb fragments, in French – and infused them with relics of his own experiences for the exhibit. Within Walking Distance of La Biennale Paris 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Where is the missing footprint/blood spatter/bone fragment? Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Readers learn about the cat’s life — a romance that bloomed while preying on a deer, a violent and traumatic paternal relationship — in fragmented, inventive prose. 9 New Books Coming in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

These are the people who doggedly tried to understand Mike Lindell's incomprehensible claims about election fraud, woven from fragments of pagan mysticism and stolen software. "My Son Hunter": There's barely even a movie inside this deep-state right-wing grift 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

An enthralling storyteller, Bowen excels equally in colorful descriptive passages, whether depicting a cardinal’s gorgeously luxurious apartments or the wild vegetation, cypress groves and marble fragments of ancient Rome: Review | ‘Black Magic’ is an oft-overlooked thriller. Don’t overlook it. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

If it’s got a fragment of the bite of her “Praise Satan Club” sketch, I’m there. 10 Shows to Watch for at This Year’s New York Fringe Festival 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

At first, the moving "fragment of bone and muscle" seems more abstract than animal. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z

“But it is achieved ultimately through a deeply postmodern language, which is that of the collage and fragment,” he added. An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

As we begin to connect all these pieces, all these tiny fragments have begun to come together in a single image. Anorexia’s scary online empire 2012-07-28T12:00:00Z

And lo: record contract revoked, tail-between-their-legs flight back to Britain, now the fragmented shards of Blue are the face of the home improvement company Ideal Boilers. Grimes finds a whole new way to make climate change fun 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Being a photographer is a constant battle with countless fragments; the camera allows me to get closer to a subject and capture its detail. Daido Moriyama's best photograph: my girlfriend's legs in fishnets 2012-10-03T15:58:56Z

The finished piece uses fragments of conversation overheard in various transient public spaces over the course of a year. The Score: In Berlin, Moved by Music, Place and Memory 2011-06-16T01:49:09Z

And, soon enough, there’s a clearing of skies: The music decelerates and makes room for melodic fragments that are voiced more sweetly. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Lenin said that the battle "lit up reality like a lightning flash" – which is much how Moore chooses to present it, with a fragmented narrative featuring much repetition and conspiratorial murmuring from a large chorus. 24:7 theatre festival 2010-07-27T14:28:00Z

At the point of shooting in 2013, the only material documenting Dream Alliance's story - apart from any races that were televised - were some home movie fragments, photographs and newspaper cuttings. Horseracing tale wows Sundance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Moran also fragmented the tune, in the glitchy fashion of a hip-hop DJ, before marrying it to an even funkier beat. Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

But because it's never quite clear exactly where the company's interest and real focus lies, the fragmented narrative and flashy staging overwhelm the storytelling. 2401 Objects ? review 2011-08-19T13:30:32Z

The second fragment or thesis treats of “disorders of the bowels,” which suggests already that the aphorist is a costive sort, disgorging small verities with considerable effort. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Smith originally made his name as a war photographer – and ever since being seriously injured by fragments of a Japanese bomb in Okinawa, he suffered from severe migraines and extreme mood swings. Mingus, Monk and Mailer: W Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photographs 2010-05-12T11:51:00Z

Renaissance-arch fragments, flying cherubs and even a plummeting airliner dominate individual panels. Seattle artists Linda Davidson and April Surgent: mosaic mavericks 2010-12-09T20:44:00Z

A fragment from “Meatloaf,” one of his last good poems, describes his state of mind: “My son took from my house / the eight-sided Mossberg .22 / my father gave me when I was twelve.” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

That depends, however, on the willingness of the producers to acknowledge that entertainment, even in a fragmented environment, remains a profitable business. Hollywood on edge as another writers' strike looms large 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Not limited to stand-up, this column will try to reflect today’s vast and fragmented scene, for creative, funny work can be found everywhere from late-night cable to bars in Brooklyn to a tweet. Critic?s Notebook: Hannibal Buress Approaches Comedy From the Side 2011-11-03T12:00:04Z

Another reason grief is an unexpectedly great subject for comedy is that in a fragmented, polarized culture, with a shrinking common collection of references, it’s universal and relatable in a way few other topics are. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Slowly, fragments coalesced into a glittering, surreal, even dangerous exploration of the Viennese waltz. Review: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performs With Panache 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

What they do instead is heighten, reflect and confirm the daily reality of an age ruled by interactive media, in which information is fragmented, attention spans are brief, and individual identity is fluid. At ?Malfi? and ?Bum Bum? in London, Active Audience 2010-08-12T22:26:00Z

At the French Embassy on Wednesday, Macron worried aloud that transcontinental economic fallout from the bill would “fragment the West,” according to Fox News. At state dinner, Biden and Macron stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The energy tends toward the clipped and fragmented, with what could be single sweeping movements broken down into their component parts. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Predictable enough — “The Full Monty” meets “Blades of Glory” — the film, directed by Mans Herngren, is low-key and gently touches on issues not usually found in sports comedies: hard times, fragmented families, reverse discrimination. | 'The Swimsuit Issue': Splashing Through Comedy 2010-05-11T23:23:00Z

Much of the play — and the opera — has to do with Eurydice reconstructing who she is from the fragments of her story that she’s lost. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

At the entrance, the Chinese artist Song Dong presents a labyrinth pieced together from salvaged panels, doors and room dividers and one pagoda-style roof fragment, conjuring both the upheavals and continuities of 20th-century Chinese life. ArtsBeat: Venice Biennale: The Enormity of the Beast 2011-06-02T21:07:36Z

In an age of uninspired pop and fragmented audiences, the Lonely Island’s most significant accomplishment is not reviving the spirit of Allan Sherman but simply rallying people around music that also happens to be funny. This Ain?t Weird Al 2011-02-20T05:00:19Z

The museum sent the five fragments to Germany’s BAM institute for analysis of their ink. U.S. Bible museum says five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments fake 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

But these fragments clearly deal with time and the ephemerality of performance. Dance Review: Exploring Time in the American Realness Festival 2014-01-21T22:04:18Z

In combination with his own writings, or using fragments of literature as inspiration, Sullivan approaches photographs not as documents of a place or person but as visual stories that serve as poetic representations or metaphors. Jordan Sullivan’s “The Young Earth and An Island in the Moon” 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

This is especially true in its big, violent set pieces, in which every visual and aural element combines to create the sort of fragmented phantasmagorias that usually occur only in nightmares. London Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

It was also her first major political endorsement, and it happened at a time when political media wasn’t as fragmented, Garthwaite says. An underwhelming end to Oprah’s Dr. Oz drama 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

And “Divertimento From ‘Le Baiser de la Fée’ ” gives us fragments of Tchaikovsky as rearranged by Stravinsky. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z

Mr. Jordan also initially made a wrong assumption that the portrait was a fragment of a larger painting rather than a preparatory oil sketch. Historian Donates Velázquez to Prado 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

And it claims that several vase fragments of illicit provenance were “sold and/or donated” on unspecified dates to the in New York. Italy Focuses Investigation on Princeton Art Curator 2010-06-02T22:01:00Z

The only thing that seems to be binding Inland's fragmented society together is a form of government called "the mincery", which acts as church and state together. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z

Diamonds of light fragment the stage, creating isolated pods for the dancers, who keep intersecting and peeling apart, the light fading as Osipova circles in Sambé’s arms. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

She figured that she could piece together “Song of Myself” in documentary fragments, with the citizens of Alabama using Whitman’s most famous poem as a conduit to speak about themselves. Reciting Walt Whitman at a Drug Court in Alabama 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Some pieces incorporate fragments of text, the language inspired by a cross-stitch design she discovered in a tapestry book. New York Fashion Week’s Under-the-Radar Talents 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The abstractions begin in an unexpected place, with silk-screen fragments that derive from Baroque prints. A lively dance by Pia Fries 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.” Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

As the music breathes calmly, motifs and figures intrude: a burst of quiet brass, a darting riff in the woodwinds, fidgety melodic fragments. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Tsukada says in one fleeting fragment of a rapid-fire monologue: “I would call that a border. Would you call that a border?” Review: Yoshiko Chuma, in a Journey Across Borders 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Later, a crucial competition appears as a fusillade of little panels, with tiny drawings of Walden in motion alternating with transcriptions of her fragmented thoughts. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The Archives also is displaying fragments of U.S. and Soviet missiles that were destroyed as a result of the first treaty that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons, Duggan said. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T19:39:19Z

"There are fragments of poetry that are really quite beautiful, lines that stop you in your tracks." Monroe's diaries revealed 2010-04-28T18:51:00Z

Franzén's willingness to push himself against the grain of his genre is even more impressive in this clip from Classical Break, choreographed by Tony Adigun to a fragment of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. MoveTube: the terrific Tommy Franzén – a National Dance awards shoo-in? 2012-11-14T09:59:30Z

Regulation continues to be very fragmented, with many different agencies responsible for bits and pieces of banking regulation. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z

Indeed, fragments are indicative of how quickly we pass judgment while on the Internet without investigating an issue too deeply. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z

The museum, a $500 million endeavor largely funded by the evangelical owner of Hobby Lobby, announced the results of the tests on Monday, revealing that five fragments showed “characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin.” Museum of Bible Removes Dead Sea Scrolls It Suspects Are Fake 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Shot in astounding, crisp HD, it's a fragmented collage of ideas and thoughts, beautifully pure graphics, scratched Dolby sounds and twisted images. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Mr. Taylor doesn’t so much juggle the movie’s various parts — including a fragmented timeline, a device that here is nothing but empty mannerism — as lob them at the screen. Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Excerpts and fragments will be read either solo or in groups by a cast that includes the actress Angela Bassett and the rappers Common and Black Thought. Bringing the World of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Briefly, to Stage 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

At its most poetic moments, “Credo in Us” evokes the layered, splintered feel of Sappho verse fragments whirring through time and space. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z

Recorded samples of laughter and spoken words intersected surreally with flute fragments in “Lipstick,” an imaginative work by the Dutch composer Jacob TV. Music Review: Alejandro Escuer at the Americas Society 2012-11-22T21:08:22Z

Aids has almost come to be regarded as an old man's disease, while the gay community has become increasingly fragmented. Jonathan Harvey: 'I've given up seeking approval' 2010-04-27T21:00:00Z

What it reveals is quite the work of art: the nose "could reflect the most improbable lights and colours and allowed objects to shine through in fragments". Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

It’s not in great shape, but offers an impressive dome and fragments of tawny mosaics depicting some biblical and hunting scenes. Overnighter: Near Barcelona, Gems From Ancient Rome 2011-06-03T19:03:42Z

“Kindless Villain” creates a haunted landscape with an aural fragment from “Hamlet” and images of two wandering boys. Critic?s Notebook: Now Showing, the Edge: A Festival?s Calling Card 2010-09-30T21:43:00Z

A painting by Rosenquist based on the opera “Tosca,” with fragmented faces and an image of a gun poised behind black lace, takes pride of place above the mantel. The Guy in the Painting? You Saw Him Foraging at the Junk Shop 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

There were no personal anecdotes, no profound revelations about who she was, because no one truly knew her; Picciotto shared only fragments of her personal history and her innermost thoughts with a trusted few. Pennsylvania Ave. activist Concepcion Picciotto’s vigil lives on after her death — with some changes 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The world of “My Joy” is grim, though the experience of watching it and piecing together its fragmented story strands is anything but. | 'My Joy': ?My Joy,? Directed by Sergei Loznitsa - Review 2011-09-29T23:47:55Z

A fragment of news film catches a wounded US soldier flashing at the camera a look of pleading despair that seems to implore the folks at home to resist this war. The Vietnam War: terror, heartbreak and helicopters ablaze in an epic documentary 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Then they wouldn’t just be acting on old host grudges, they’d be retracing fragments of their own real consciousness. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Offill’s slender and cannily paced novel, her second, assembles fragments, observations, meditations and different points of view to chart the course of a troubled marriage. Book Review Podcast: 10 Best Books of 2014 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The designs linger like lovingly preserved ruins, fragments of a lost world. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s an accumulation of fragments that you build up to build this fiction, this work that is the film. Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story 2011-03-22T17:11:02Z

Interpreting even the most fragmented body language on digital platforms is a 21st-century skill, largely honed through social media. Perspective | ‘Fortnite’ fight: Can a rapper claim a dance? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Upstage, a more naturalistic fragment of set depicts an unkempt basement. War drama hits home 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Slowly, these fragments began to assemble themselves into something larger: the artistic reverse of "controlled ruination", perhaps. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z

He offered an elegant performance of this enigmatic piece, in which fragments of melody are interwoven with rumbling figurations in the left hand. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z

As her voice softens, her speech becomes increasingly fragmented until all that remains is a low, unintelligible mumble. 2010-02-06T06:48:00Z

But it doesn't bother me too much; that's just the way the fragmented world works. Ron Arad, architect and designer – portrait of the artist 2013-07-23T17:26:04Z

The body of work, he said, add up to more than 100 fragments of compositions. London music professor completes Mozart's unfinished works with self-described 'bloody cheek' 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

And Albright’s pins, including one with fragments of the Berlin Wall. Madeleine Albright’s ‘pin diplomacy’ lives on at State Department museum 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The reason Ms. Schumer has broken out is that in a fragmented comedy scene she has broad appeal without seeming to try to please everyone. ‘Trainwreck Comedy Tour’ Is Amy Schumer’s Thing 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

From Loy A. Webb, “The Light,” also at MCC, concerning the romantic dissonance in the fragmenting relationship of a culturally hip black couple. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

It took his admirer Degas to buy all the fragments he could find and paste them together as best he could. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

Both address Italy’s fascist past through fragmented narratives and striking visual styles, and are based on literary texts: “Spider” on a story by Jorge Luis Borges, “The Conformist” on the Alberto Moravia novel. Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z

The biggest audiences may have gone down, as viewing is fragmented between ever more channels, but last year's Olympics still managed to attract more than 26 million viewers for the opening and closing ceremonies. Torin Douglas: 24 years in media 2013-06-03T07:43:41Z

But a lush, if fragmented story arrives by way of the exacting, exuberant choreography, performed by two of the intrepid dancers in the cast of “Then She Fell.” ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z

On Christmas Day tourists found small fragments of tufo, the porous rock typical of ancient Roman monuments, on the ground. ArtsBeat Blog: Colosseum May Be a Fixer-Upper but It's Not Collapsing, Italian Officials Say 2011-12-28T14:35:40Z

With his last film, 2007's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," director Julian Schnabel used a fragmented narrative technique to convey the interior life of a man who's paralyzed. 'Miral': an admirable, flawed attempt to give the Palestinian perspective 2011-04-07T19:21:04Z

Like the images, the writing here is often dramatically cropped, offering fragments in lieu of extended arguments and reveries. Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mazza began to look into the Green Collection when researching fragments of a recently discovered papyrus by the ancient Greek poet Sappho: Museum of the Bible is busted: Inside the Hobby Lobby owners’ dodgy artifact practices 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

It is surely this association with transcendence, or some tiny fragment of it, that is at work in all our encounters with birds. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z

The travails of the salesmen lend just enough narrative structure to keep your interest and to prevent “Pigeon” from scattering into YouTube-ready fragments. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

All those elements in my life could be reshuffled to look like fragments of an old New York, full of struggle and meaning — pregnant, stripper, Lower East Side … They read like a Larry Clark photo. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

He handled the fragments of “Fem” with geometric brightness, a Mondrian painting in sound, but his turn to its more reflective, nocturnal conclusion was entirely persuasive. Review: Taka Kigawa Masters the Conflicting Rhythms of Ligeti 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Best known as a video artist who experiments with radically expanded or fragmented screens, Mr. Aitken calls the new project an alternative to the grand gestures of earthwork artists like Michael Heizer. Doug Aitken Plans Underwater Art Installation 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

She composed Gregorian chants, fragments of which are heard in the film. | 'Vision': A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany 2010-10-12T22:37:00Z

The culture of fandom is fragmented now in unprecedented ways; one is no longer required to entertain or indulge the hideous taste of others. The Music Critic in the Age of the Insta-Release 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

He has the courage of the experienced actor to give you fragments, bits and pieces for you to put together for yourself. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z

What comes through immediately is that the chords, riffs, fragments and themes have been chosen with precision. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

On weekdays it is a fragment of rural Thailand, set like a wayward piece of a jigsaw puzzle in the midst of the urban sprawl. Special Report: A Cut Above: An Island Refuge Amid the Sprawl in Bangkok 2012-06-20T03:21:01Z

Vladimir Nabokov left instructions that fragments of a manuscript be destroyed. Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The museum has a longstanding policy of only returning “nominally identified” remains, meaning corpse fragments from a specific person with a connection to the claimant. A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

By the time he announced the Deuteronomy fragments, he had sold some 250 apparently genuine ones to the British Museum. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Similarly, the town of this “Lucia” begins to match its protagonist’s mind, eventually arriving at a fragmented cluster of buildings in the mad scene. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Yet the enduring interest of 1922 lies in the brilliance, madness, beauty, comedy and devastation with which writers that year fused the fragments of the ages to a noisily vapid postwar present. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

But the fragmented nature of this arrangement caused problems, beginning with a haphazard release schedule trailing over six months that means Cloud Atlas, arriving in the UK this week, has the air of yesterday's news. Cloud Atlas: how Hollywood failed to put it on the map 2013-02-20T17:16:47Z

This spring, the historical society will also show a fragment taken from George Washington’s coffin, for bicentennial celebrations of the Washington Monument in Baltimore. ‘The Porcelain Thief’ Chronicles a Trip to Unearth Chinese Heirlooms 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The video, with its close-ups of body fragments, was most useful as an intriguing resting point for the eye passing from Ms. Fenley to Ms. Farmer. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley’s ‘Cross Bridge’ at The Club at La MaMa 2012-12-12T22:52:49Z

“Atthis” is based on text fragments by Sappho and traces the passionate ups and downs in the relationship between that Greek poet and her favorite student. Ariadne Greif’s Searing Moment in Opera Cabal’s ‘Atthis’ 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

A vivid materialization of Lê's reflections on his own fragmented and recombined identity, it also serves as a metaphor for cultural self-knowledge. Dinh Q. Lê at Shoshana Wayne Gallery: Unspooling the horrors of Vietnam 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

We used to come up with whole song structures, but on 'Blakroc' we worked with fragments and loops, simple hooks and doing variations on those. Black Keys riding out the buzz 2010-12-24T06:00:00Z

Inside a silver cup from modern-day France, fragments of a Russian neck ring and a host of Islamic coins, among other objects, were found. Vikings in London, Glamorous but Just Like Family 2014-03-28T13:35:00Z

The abstract artistic language of the choreography and script allows the artists to slip past the literal depictions of the mural into elliptical dance fragments. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

The idea, Yu Yu said, is to streamline a management structure that “was a little bit fragmented,” in hopes of achieving better communication between all employees who deal with the public. Pacific Asia Museum: Signs of progress after first year under USC 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The sequence goes on for some time, one evocative fragment after another, a poignant portrait of a woman slowly turning into a ghost. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

It’s as if an invisible body were all voice, fragmented but steadily and pointedly articulate. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

A fragment plucked from the book’s molten center, but one that concentrates “Antkind”’s strengths, and its real concerns. In Charlie Kaufman’s Novel, a Comic Hero Is Haunted by a Lost Film 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

But revived television series can actually bridge these fragmented audiences. Why did the television reboot become all the rage? 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Starting with a corpse in a freezer box, “Small Days and Nights” turns a fragmented family into an overflowing one. In South India, a Fragmented Family Turns Into an Overflowing One 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Dazzling fragments of films that tend to be visually adept and dramatically inert or vice versa. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z

With a subtitle redolent of both desire and death, the show presents around 100 objects or fragments that Mr. Vo has reclaimed as art; most are accompanied by extended wall labels. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The fragment, which was encased in glass, “literally fell out of a stack of letters,” the seller said in the listing. Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

When students were cleaning one ordinary-looking fragment, it revealed the word “you,” etched in Drake’s firm cursive. Antiques: Pottery by David Drake, a Slave Craftsman in Edgefield, S.C. 2012-08-30T21:17:32Z

Two of the four trophies in Locke’s series are mere fragments, each carrying an image of the bottom half of a broken face. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

The fragment is accompanied by eight large and fascinating drawings for the monument in which Bouchardon analyzed the horse and rider as anatomical creatures — their physicality, posture and material bearing. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

No face, no name, no person, just an anatomical fragment that translates into race=sex. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Then, without thinking about a new book, I started doing these factual little snippets/fragments in second person, and published a few on-line. “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Grinnell noted that the Indians — unlike Western hunters — used every fragment of the buffalo, even recycling their sinews as bowstrings and bladders for water bags. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z

As I tried to resurrect her recipe—piecing together fragments of memory and digging around the dusty corners of the internet—I was filled with doubt. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

A shadowy mist of cymbal rises off long, sepulchral tones down in the basses and contrabassoon, before a keening fragment of bassoon pierces the quiet with melancholy song. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Bustin' at 'Em is explosive, with fragmented beats and expletives flung in the air like detritus. Waka Flocka Flame – review 2012-12-05T13:20:19Z

One is a lightly tart pale-green juice with fragments of herbs and minced vegetables swishing around in it. This Queens Food Cart Has a Way With Liver 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Framed on the wall like a cherished fragment from a lost world, it resonates against our new digital universe. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

She signed the “Marsh Ruins” in the form of a tiny concrete fragment that she placed in the brush near the roadside. A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

The movie’s idiosyncratic composition, comprising many static takes that deliver the action with a plain reserve, doesn’t so much fragment the action enigmatically as reduce it to anecdotes and information. “The Souvenir,” Reviewed: Joanna Hogg’s Ambitious, Frustrating Autobiographical Drama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

In a letter of protest to the pope, he painted a blunt picture of the Curia: “The realm is fragmented into many small feudal states, with everyone fighting against everyone else.” Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

In an era when physical media are being supplanted by streaming, the prevalence of rock docs and anniversary celebrations evokes the sense of impending disaster and the shoring up of fragments against ruins. “Yesterday,” Reviewed: Danny Boyle’s Comedic Fantasy About a World Without the Beatles 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

And this argument over are we our brother’s keeper, or is it every man for himself, has never been more ugly and fragmenting of society. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z

These poems create a fragmented, lyrical landscape shaped by “Weary fears, the/ usual trials and/ a place to surmise/ blessedness.” National Book Award finalists for poetry

Her characters are fragmented, and each struggles with clinging to the thread of the self. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Why couldn’t this just be a lecture, I scribbled, as I made my own fragments and lists and the occasional doodle in my notebook. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

His latest appeal asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to review three issues: failure to disclose evidence, the destruction of bone fragments and ineffective assistance of counsel. ‘Making a Murderer’ subject Avery appeals latest defeat 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

His biographical method — combining fragments, lists, excerpts, quotes and flights of whimsy — is executed as brilliantly here as in 2017’s glittering “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.” Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Her remarks were punctuated by long pauses and fragmented sentences. Kim Delaney escorted from Philadelphia podium 2011-09-23T18:31:46Z

But then he began thinking about individual limbs and fragmented body parts that could stand alone in a gallery space, and possibly open his work to a wider range of interpretations. Woody De Othello’s Extraordinary Monuments to the Mundane 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The terror he flees from is blurry, prettified: “In the far distance another series of crackling bursts, like dry leaves underfoot fragmenting to dust.” A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s different from our European modern sensibility where life is divided and fragmented. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

From what would have been the front door, I gazed down the length of the shimmering fjord, before I looked down to find the fragments of a broken beer bottle. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

As this protagonist cello line sighs, heaves and slackens, the taped parts add fragmented scratch tones, whispers and tremors, evoking terrain both alluring and treacherous. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington owns two other segments of the skylight set, and a fragment is in a private collection. Antiques: Antiques Stores Fall to Online Offerings 2013-12-05T21:33:00Z

He focused on wholeness, simplicity and monumentality, in planes that bent and angled in ways that suggest fragments of Cubism writ large. Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z

Now Ireland junior produced a number of other official documents and literary fragments in quick succession which further fleshed out Shakespeare's hitherto shadowy life. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

In the present, survivors relive their traumas in the form of fragmented images, sounds and emotion that the brain can’t register as belonging to the past. How to Rewire Your Traumatized Brain 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Before settling into a groove, the star's show flitted restlessly between fragments of songs and video clips. Jay-Z joins Beyonce show in London 2014-03-01T01:07:50Z

But, as spare and sturdy as a pallet rack and empty of everything but history, light and air, it’s roomy enough to accommodate all the brilliant fragments of an incomparable career. From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

On one occasion, yes — a fragment, no longer than an eyelash, which she immediately fished out. Angie Mar’s Menu: Red Meat and Respect 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

That cruelty is rendered most intimately in “Testimonies,” in which the accounts of named women are arrayed in past-tense fragments. A Debut Poet Confronts the Sexual Violence of an Earlier Generation 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The following year, two more fragments that fit the cup came to the Met, this time as a gift from von Bothmer’s own extensive private collection. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Sidelined by the pandemic, some actors fired up ceramics or sang fragments of “Imagine.” Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

What might appear to be arbitrary encounters of disparate objects – a fragment of metal grill fencing with a wisp of delicate fabric – accrue a precarious mystique. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

In English, it was elusive in its spare, angular melodies and slightly jarring in some fragmented phrasing. Review: Music From Japan Brings In Some Neighbors as Well 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Its facades were tiled or painted to represent classical fragments. Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Nowhere, according to the Met’s records, did he or any of the others indicate where they had gotten the fragments. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

It is unfortunate that we glean more about who Bartók was from a fragment such as this than from page after page of Cooper’s otherwise authoritative work. Book review: Musician Béla Bartók was pride of two nations 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Slides, whoops and whooshes rush through “Play,” with half-buried lines of aching lyricism dissolving into fragments of scales that are passed around the orchestra with the enigmatic intimacy of dialogue in Beckett plays. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

It's also far more fragmented than ever before. Seacrest is heir apparent to Clark's pop influence 2012-04-19T20:08:19Z

“I’m interested when someone can piece together another layer of meaning from a fragment of a body or the location of a room.” What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The soundtrack, whose most memorable fragment is Tom Waits growling his song “Flowers Grave,” fills in the emotional blanks. | 'Idiots and Angels': Misanthrope Sprouts Wings and Humanity 2010-10-05T22:32:00Z

His essay on Sappho draws on recently discovered fragments of her work, which reveal a poet who might not conform to current expectations. A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Williams's book paints an intriguing portrait of a man in fragments, a series of sides that won't match up. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

Here, ropes lash it in fragments to a massive barge floating on the silvery expanse of the placid Danube River delta. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

It’s composed of fragments of many dances I’ve done over the years, little moments in duets and trios. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Soil is just fragments of rock, with the oozing stuff of organic life in between them. Dealing, kindly, with stony ground

These lines sound like snippets from “Finnegans Wake” held together with chewing gum — you understand in fragments, if you understand at all. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

In that film the fragment feels like a distant yet treasured memory of pure Romanticism — a state of mind Mr. Godard suggests is no longer accessible to us after the horrors of the 20th century. Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

After its descent into a messy, multi-sided civil war in 2011, when the country was fragmented into numerous enclaves, the warring parties began to plunder that inheritance, looting museums and excavating ancient sites. Palmyra priest statue among haul of recovered Syrian relics 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

A story more or less emerges amid the fragmented performances and snippets of conversation. | 'Go Go Tales': A Bar Where Everybody Knows Your Pole Dance 2011-01-06T23:12:04Z

At his death, von Bothmer bequeathed the Met some 16,000 fragments, some of which are on display today in one of the two galleries named for him at the museum. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

It shows us that the world in the ninth century was not as fragmented as we assumed. Museums: Ancient Arab Shipwreck Yields Secrets of Ninth-Century Trade 2011-03-07T13:30:06Z

The first movement begins with an ominous, sustained, single note that swells until percussion batters it down and the orchestra fractures into shards and fragments. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

Some bowling balls were completely intact while others are damaged or are in broken fragments, Olson noted. Man says he's found 160 bowling balls under his Michigan home 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

These dilute the intensity of Beckett's investigation of memory and fragmenting identity. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z

By the time the three lines were merged in 1940, the system was hopelessly fragmented. Design: New York Subway's Long Dance With a Typeface 2011-04-03T15:00:06Z

Until then, several flank the Met gallery entrance, framing the art and history beyond, and reflecting us as we approach the show in a fragmented, multi-angled way, as moving water or memory might. At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

He often speaks in fragments separated by long pauses, but when I asked him for advice, he responded in a clear voice. In the British Virgin Islands I learned to sail — for my father, while there was still time 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Virtopsy also allows pathologists to see that precise location of foreign material, such as shrapnel or bullet fragments, making it easier for the material to be extracted by hand. Virtual autopsy: does it spell the end of the scalpel? 2013-02-23T21:00:00Z

Rather, his narrative moves from scene to scene with the logic of memory, as if this were less a story than a collection of fragments that refuse to coalesce. David Payne's 'Barefoot to Avalon' avoids easy answers in a tale of two brothers 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The tortured male genius, the reclining woman, broken, fragmented, terrorised so often in imagery. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Viewed from a sufficiently expansive perspective, the world was not so confusingly fragmented and chaotic as it might seem to surface dwellers. Art Review: Empowering People of Spaceship Earth 2011-05-19T21:01:40Z

On Monday night, Christian Orr rewatched a fragment of Rock's performance with his daughter. "This was real and raw": Fans weigh in on Chris Rock's special, from trans jokes to Slap clapback 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

The tiny fragment became a gigantic boulder – almost a mountain. Artist Andy Holden makes a marvellous mountain out of a misdemeanour | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-19T16:11:00Z

“Even in an era of fragmented television, you don’t have to market those shows,” Mr. Adgate said. Christmas Shows Are TV’s December Comfort Food 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The music begins with a pungent, sustained sonority, a quivering mass of sounds, within which fragments dart about. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

At times, “Dietland” can feel fragmented, more a collection of provocations than a coherent story. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Its fragments of narrative have more impact than its pure-dance content. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

Born in the seventh century BC, the Greek poet Sappho is known for her playful, erotic love poetry, which exists today only in fragments. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

In a grotto-style hall assembled for the show and decorated with fragments of mirrors, Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri reasserted her stamp on the French fashion house on the one-year anniversary of her arrival. Playful Dior brightens Paris Fashion Week with mirrors and mosaics 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

It’s coming down through all those decapitated and suffering mountains, through the forests divided and fragmented, and on down past the cities of central Kentucky, gathering from them what we call “waste.” Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Her pictures affirm the external majesty of the lakes and glaciers there, but to invoke less overt currents of power, she overlays fragmented patches of colored gels atop the conventional landscapes. Seeing the world through an artist's mint-colored glasses 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Brought to jerky life from drawings resembling woodblock prints and installed across giant screens, they swallow us up in a fragmented dreamland. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Her canvases evolved from rectilinear to shaped; broke into fragments and reunited, but gained various protrusions. Elizabeth Murray: A Singular Style, Steeped in Many 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

“It’s very mathematical,” Gurung says, “the way the pattern is fragmented.” | Prabal Gurung 2012-06-12T16:03:39Z

The crackling old soul samples don't add their traditional warm glow: they either spin gratingly out of time with the beats or else are fragmented into piercing squeaks and squeals. Kanye West: Yeezus – review 2013-06-17T14:56:34Z

He reached the cabinet, but his career at the top table was short and fragmented, terminated twice by scandal and a third time by election defeat. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

"It contains," he wrote of the document, "excellent fragments of a much better age, which you would seek in vain to find elsewhere". History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax 2013-07-19T07:30:01Z

In the fragments, you see images of performers, idols, cartoonish figures and what appear to be drawings of real people. Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Dean does eventually give us one of Hamlet’s soliloquies more or less in its entirety, and it is the soliloquy we have been waiting for since the opening fragment “or not to be.” ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

The task of consciousness raising is to bring these dim fragments of consciousness to light and by sharing them with others build them into a pattern that finally makes sense: Aha! I like to be objectified 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z

To hold a fossil is to clutch a fragment of prehistory, and “Fossils” explores what remains — personally, zoologically — of times and creatures gone by. Review: A Search for Dad, and the Loch Ness Monster, in ‘Fossils’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

As a result, audiences have fragmented, gravitating to niche shows that cater to specific interests. Why did the television reboot become all the rage? 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Now he maintains five different fragmented lines throughout parts of his body, then with a change of emphasis resolves them into a single satisfying shape. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z

For tantalising moments, Guillem and Le Riche allow their bodies to fall into familiar patterns of virtuosity – flashing beaten jumps and plush arabesques – but then they begin sliding and fragmenting and picking the material apart. Sylvie Guillem - review 2011-07-06T23:44:38Z

They are about “the protagonist’s struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.” An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

In the film, only fragments of his most famous poetry are heard, delivered by Mr. Jones in a voice that is far less musical than Thomas’s seductive caroling. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

A jammed gun almost derailed the attempt, but they managed to throw a bomb under his car, and — I always remember this — the explosion blew fragments of horsehair into Heydrich body, from the upholstery. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z

The police took the skull fragment and within a few days got in touch to confirm that it was human. Experience: I mudlarked a skull 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

I wanted a fragmented feeling, that nothing is in the right order. "It's not about the terrorists": "Revoir Paris" captures fragmented memories after mass shooting 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

By summer of 2010 his oceanic fragment had grown to about 50 minutes of music. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

A chronologically fragmented narrative takes shape, one that spans generations of human habitation on this strange and hostile world. Review: ‘On the Silver Globe,’ Andrzej Zulawski’s Thwarted Sci-Fi Masterwork 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

A fragment of Mr. Schulberg’s work arrives, belatedly and truncated, with “Nuremberg,” an assemblage of surviving footage that gains some power from its piecemeal state. | 'Nuremberg': Rare Scenes Re-Emerge From Nuremberg Trials 2010-09-28T23:15:00Z

It’s a bit of a narrative slow-boil — the story arrives in pieces, in disconnected scenes and conversational fragments — but it grabs you right from the start. Review: In ‘The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki,’ Love and Life on the Ropes 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

And mounted on the wall is a fragment of silk velvet made between 1500 and 1700 that seems to be taken from one of the two women’s shirts. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z

What is treasured and beautiful blows apart, such that “it seems impossible … we should ever compose from their fragments a perfect whole or read in the littered pieces the clear words of truth.” Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

Stephen, the protagonist of “The Long Room,” catches an unexpected view of himself in a mirror and sees “a bare, forked animal,” a startling and perfect fragment of defamiliarization plucked from Shakespeare. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The fragmented nature of the opposition to Assad, who is from the Alawite minority in the mostly Sunni Muslim country, is also a problem for those keen on political change in Syria. Syrian forces bombard Homs after Arab peace proposal 2012-02-13T11:44:03Z

The opening tableau that depicts bustling crowds at a Shrovetide Fair in St. Petersburg was not all homogenized and clear-textured, as in better-behaved performances, but a riot of sounds, rhythms, melodic fragments and breathless vitality. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, at 15,000, With Stravinsky 2010-05-06T21:19:00Z

Eschewing a fragmented montage, Iñárritu follows the action over extended stretches of time as if his doing so produced no mere photographic record of action but chunks of raw reality with their authenticity guaranteed intact. The Suffocating Solemnity of “The Revenant” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The shows, presented free online over the next two months, are elastically open-ended: They may be fragments of works to be expanded or simply live as short cycles of songs. Review | Give this folk rock duo 27 minutes. They’ll give you a musically heartbreaking world. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

One minute, the band is just a motley crew of hard-playing party monsters; the next, one guy is turning fragments of a dead bandmate’s shattered skull into jewelry. ‘Lords of Chaos’ Review: Where Anomie and Speed Metal Meet Doom 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

“The making of ‘King Kong’ reflected a kind of utopia in the midst of an utterly fragmented society. Reviving a South African Musical That Once Promised So Much 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Five performers in shades of white and cream perform the text, which is written as a fragmented monologue. From Rhino Fest, reviews of "4:48 Psychosis" and "Poverty" 2011-01-27T18:39:00Z

Mr. Govan, the museum’s director, said the gala’s success is largely attributable to its cross section of attendees, especially given the surprisingly fragmented way in which the Los Angeles creative class tends to socialize. Eva Chow, the Culture Queen of Los Angeles 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

The words were done in primary colors, in contrast to some of the cool blues and greens earlier in the show, and while you could clearly make out words, the meaning was fragmented. Balenciaga: Domestic Studies 2010-03-04T17:41:00Z

According to Mr. Bogdanovich, Welles' editing was "very fragmented and idiosyncratic." Hollywood Ending Near for Orson Welles’s Last Film 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

As other media audiences fragment, radio listeners seem as dedicated to their favourite stations – we each have 2.4 of those, according to recent research – as ever. Radio head: Pick of the year 2010-12-29T08:00:02Z

Davis gave the band two chords, and “there was a semblance of structures, but they were a little fragmented compared to what we usually played.” Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Over the past decade, restorers sifted through around 27,000 fragments of rubble and gradually reassembled most of them. Statues devastated in WWII go on show in Berlin 2011-01-27T15:03:11Z

And a lot of the techniques that once seemed fresh — the fragments, the slapstick, the madcap sound design — now feel like clichés. Review: ‘Field Guide’ Brings Standup to a Dostoyevsky Downer 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The Met’s current head of conservation, Lisa Pilosi, said that when remaking a cup, it’s important to first check to see if the fragments are stable enough to handle without flaking. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Tennessee Williams left an unpublished fragment, part of an unfinished projected article on poets and poetry. A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

He followed that up with a series of autobiographical fragments called "Autoportrait." Edouard Levé's 'Works' is charged with wit and wonder 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

According to Mr. Bogdanovich, Welles' editing was "very fragmented and idiosyncratic." Hollywood Ending Near for Orson Welles’s Last Film 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Her vivid, elusive movies are observational and fragmented, agitated and entropic in equal measure, populated by accident-prone characters notable for their absence of self-awareness. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Then the musicians performed Ligeti’s “Ramifications,” a short piece for 12 players in which soft yet restless fragments and ethereal sounds spin forward with scant sense of rhythmic definition or pulse. The Berlin Philharmonic Tests a Musical Path Out of Lockdown 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

It's more complicated than that: steeped in confusion, dead ends, blank spaces and broken fragments. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z

Nor are the entrepreneurial Parker brothers the only surprising characters in the fragment. Sauce and sensuality: TV drama adds extra mischief to Austen 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

That means that her memories are fragmented and incomplete, since she often had only a narrow idea of what went on around her. Books of The Times: A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent 2011-07-17T21:24:39Z

The new album is laced with interstitial sound fragments but live, Mason sticks to the tunes: Seen It All Before suggests a world-weary shrug, but the jazzy drums transform it into a balm. Steve Mason – review 2013-04-12T16:42:19Z

The collection has been seen publicly in relatively fragmented ways. Curator Joanne Heyler sketches out Broad Museum's 2015 opening 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

And yet, of course, books allow us to recapture these lost fragments of the past. 'All Night Menu' uncovers a hidden history of Los Angeles 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Viewers' habits change during every edition of the Games, with more searching for Olympics news online or through social media, fragmenting the traditional broadcast audiences that advertisers still pay a premium for. Half the world watching Games, opening ceremony ratings flat: IOC 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

And while it’s natural to assume that reliquaries in the shape of a heaven-pointing hand and arm contain fragments of such bodily extremities, this isn’t necessarily so. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

It also helped that the Seventies was a heyday of British television before the BBC lost its self-confidence and ITV much of its audience and revenue to the fragmented world of digital satellite channels. How Clive James transformed the role of television critic 2012-06-23T23:06:15Z