Kage Baker

1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.

American Writer

Floyd Skloot

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

American Poet

Franklin Foer

Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors.

Del Close

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

American Actor

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

French Writer

Jaron Lanier

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

American Artist

George Oppen

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Dominic Grieve

Intelligence is fragmentary and hard to discover, so it is by joining forces and sharing information with our allies that we maximise our ability to protect ourselves.

British Politician

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

American Musician

Sarah Churchwell

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

American Educator

Use 'fragmentary' when someone knows only a bit about a subject, not everything.

Partial Knowledge

'Fragmentary' implies something is missing, which keeps it from being complete.

Missing Pieces

The term 'fragmentary' doesn't always suggest a negative situation; it can be neutral.

Not Negative

In architecture, 'fragmentary' often refers to the physical remains of a structure.

Physical Remains

Use 'fragmentary' in architecture when parts do not form a coherent whole.

Unorganized Parts

'Fragmentary' can indicate historical value despite missing parts.

Historical Context

In literature, 'fragmentary' may refer to texts with missing sections or gaps.

Literary Gaps

'Fragmentary' implies an unfinished or incomplete literary piece.

Unfinished Work

Fragmentary literature may require interpretation to understand the full story.

Interpretative Challenge

 climate change coming on very rapidly. We have to cease all extra production of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, as soon as possible, otherwise, we're in deep, deep trouble. All of that is true, but it's not the whole story, and the whole story is more interesting than these fragmentary stories.

Mammoths resurrected and...

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