Nothing is calm in the Presidential precinct these days; all is noise, dust, confusion and seemingly disjointed activity.

Close observers of world events over the past four decades will already know the answers to these seemingly disjointed (though actually related) questions.

Seemingly disjointed and sometimes forced, they assemble a universal - the human displacements of Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, East Timor, Chechnya - in strikingly individual terms.

This film, which begins with a series of seemingly disjointed impressions, coalesces into a moving study of the boy, his family and his condition.

This is in contrast to the seemingly disjointed and fractious Democratic party.

Listeners must at times accept interpretation on his own, seemingly disjointed, terms.

What he was considering now was a series of seemingly disjointed and unconnected bits of information on American interdiction operations.

Frequently, ritualized formal patterns are employed, smoothly evolving or abruptly fractured into quick, sharp, seemingly disjointed sequences whose symbolism or "meanings" are obscure.

Still, the seemingly disjointed episodes involving a sinister valet, a suspicious suicide and the supposedly accidental death of a deranged hotelkeeper's wife are tied together deftly in a comic epilogue.

This may explain why autistic individuals have a heightened capacity for noticing seemingly disjointed details.