Word: fragmentism
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...injury (which may result from surgery) causes part of the uvea (the pigmentary layer of tissues in the eye) to be misplaced, and this sets up inflammation. Most remarkably, the sight-threatening reaction develops in both eyes, though only one was injured. The second type results when a fragment of lens tissue is left after an operation for cataract. For this, the eye sometimes has to be removed...
...lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs popped. Later, when visiting the nearby convent, Kennedy barred photos. "I think not," he said, raising his hand. Back in the car, Kennedy explained that pictures are not allowed in some convents, tore off all but the slightest fragment of the green ribbon. "After all," he explained, "we're not in Boston...
...cleaned out by Bedouins, but Aharoni found several that they had missed. Inside, the floors were foot-deep with bird droppings and dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self...
...solemnly intones: "Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. You will seek not a near, but a distant, objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern...
...literature, and Petronius was mocking Roman bluenoses when he pretended to deny it. But the great gaiety of the work, and the sharpness with which Petronius satirizes esthetes, pedants, bad poets, the nouveau riche and the rapacious poor, lift this gutter odyssey well above the merely pornographic. The fragment that remains of the original huge manuscript is a mixture of prose, poetry and puns, fustian rhetoric and sweaty argot...