fragmentarily

Investigations fragmentarily voices aphorisms about language-games, family resemblance, forms of life, "jumping from one topic to another" (PI Preface).

Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009

She seems just now to be starting to find her fun, healthy spirit again, if fragmentarily, but she has been fundamentally altered as a person.

Archive 2006-07-01 kittenpie 2006

She seems just now to be starting to find her fun, healthy spirit again, if fragmentarily, but she has been fundamentally altered as a person.

In Which I Finally Get Around to Talking About My Mom kittenpie 2006

Here it is important to note that like the stable spatial order, the causal regularities that pertain to material objects are only intermittently and fragmentarily reflected in immediate experience.

Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007

I have been telling you more or less in my own words what I learned fragmentarily in the course of two or three years, during which I seldom missed an opportunity of a friendly chat with him.

Amy Foster 2006

For a time I sit restfully enjoying his companionable silence, and thinking fragmentarily of those samurai and their Rules.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

I nodded — for what she had related so fragmentarily was in reality an excellent approach to the Chamberlain – Moulton theory of a coalescing nebula contracting into the sun and its planets.

The Moon Pool 2004

I read, straight through, the 10 volumes of Histoire de ma vie, of which I knew about two thirds but only fragmentarily.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

One night while her head lay upon his heart and their cigarettes glowed in swerving buttons of light through the dome of darkness over the bed, she spoke for the first time and fragmentarily of the men who had hung for brief moments on her beauty.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

We didn't know the nature of our foe, except vaguely and fragmentarily, nor their numbers, their methods, their operations on Earth and in space, how organized they were, even their long-range objectives.

Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999