Sentences with phrase «too fragmentary»

But he cautions that the fossils are still too fragmentary to be certain that the more complex feathery structures actually correspond to those found later in birds.

The cave, which has many archaeological layers spanning 100,000 years, has yielded both Neandertal and modern human stone tools and a small collection of hominin bones too fragmentary to be identified.

Also, this is too fragmentary to be a full answer, but a declaration of war would fall foul of the (English) Bill of Rights, which makes it fairly clear that the British Army exists solely with the consent of Parliament.

Any attempted summary, in a few paragraphs, of the findings of the Oxford Conference in its five fields of study would be too fragmentary to be serviceable.

Not exact matches

Gone, too, (at least virtually and in aspiration), is the infernal circle of egocentrism, meaning the isolation, in some sort ontological, which prohibits our escape from self to share the point of view even of those we love best: as though the Universe were composed of as many fragmentary universes, repelling each other, as the sum total of the centers of consciousness which it embraces.

Only after reaching at least a fragmentary grasp — «definition» would be too strong a term — of the nature of revelation would it be opportune to inquire into its critical plausibility.

If Buddhism can speak at all to us, albeit in a distorted and all too partial and fragmentary voice, it may at the very least challenge and disrupt those patterns of language and thinking which have silenced our own language of faith.

It's a dizzyingly reflexive concept that could be too self - involved to really connect, but as our reviewer discovered, the fragmentary, impressionistic «Cameraperson» (often employing off - cuts of films she worked on) actually builds to «a surprisingly emotional and heartfelt film... Humanity permeates [the film], so as experimental as it is, it's also stirring and poignant, with a tangible sense of empathy intact in every frame...» [A]

The «Chol» secular curriculum was «too narrow», with «fragmentary teaching», no checks on progress and «minimal» provision for personal, social, health and economic education.