Guillermo Arriaga's screenplay moves out far along the story line and then backs up, letting the disjointed pieces gradually come together with intriguing chinks here and there.

What is left lies in clear yet disjointed pieces in my head.

All those disjointed pieces, which had looked like the Chaos Theory at work now fell into place and became the Unified Theory, which explained everything.

Software is then used to put together disjointed pieces of manuscripts and to correct or fill in any missing text.

Several of the languages of the West have come out of complex pasts bearing in their hands small and disjointed pieces.

It's a disjointed piece of junk.

The phone and the man's face erupted into a scatter of disjointed pieces.

The interstate was born in disjointed pieces in the late 1950's and completed in 1987 as an almost continuous 1,900-mile connection between Florida and Maine.

While many Ohio townships are composed of disjointed pieces due to municipal annexations, separation only by other townships is very uncommon.

Ordinarily, consciousness, functioning as Being-in-the-world, organized the disjointed pieces into a picture of the whole.