disjointedness

The ending works only if you accept the disjointedness of the piece as a whole.

This added to the sense of disjointedness that has gripped the country since Sept. 11.

There were times, for example, when the orchestra had problems with the disjointedness of Mahler's form.

But there is a disjointedness to Joe's speech patterns.

But he could not create everything, and so there were gaps and a sense of disjointedness.

The contrast between the two performers gave the character a regrettable disjointedness.

This choreographic disjointedness can sometimes be refreshing, for the dances are unpredictable.

Even the disjointedness of the Buchner play is turned to virtue.

He said the prime minister was wrong to say that immigration caused "discomfort and disjointedness" in some communities.

And the love story is staggered, broken up between two women; this makes a movie about mental disjointedness disjointed itself.

A disparate collection shows lack of direction and disjointedness."

But the professional gloss doesn't conceal the desperate disjointedness of what lies beneath.

It makes for dizzying eye exercise, and to add to the disjointedness, the "Flicker" plot is actually two stories.

Yet for all this disjointedness, each quartet is tightly designed, with an overarching structure that ties the work together.

Blue had just stated feelings of disjointedness.

What Greenfield has left us, despite the disjointedness almost inevitable in posthumous publication, is something very different from a traditional memoir.

The disjointedness showed up in general.

There are times when the elusiveness and disjointedness seem more than Mr. Lemon may have intended.

In a moment of out-of-sync disjointedness, he saw the small cartridge hit the wall behind where Palmer had been standing just a moment before.

"Oh..." Ethan realized where some of the disjointedness in this conversation was coming from; the red coveralls were misleading her.

In such passages, the subliminal movement is from disjointedness and friction into transcendent, seemingly unwitting harmony.

There's this disjointedness.

Though not regarded as an extremely cohesive story, in reading Mosquitoes, textual disjointedness is especially evident in a few sections.

As if overcompensating for the disjointedness of the screenplay, the director throws in far too many gratuitous shock effects and extreme close-ups.

There are, no doubt, many reasons, historical and intellectual, for this distinctive disjointedness between methods and what is regarded as the substance of sociology itself.