Literary notes about fractured (AI summary)
The word “fractured” is used to evoke both concrete and abstract breakage, highlighting a state of being split or disrupted. It can denote a literal physical injury, as seen when a character endures a fractured skull or damaged limb ([1], [2], [3]), or even in descriptions of objects—a marble table’s damaged corner serves to project an unsettling aura ([4]). It is also employed metaphorically to convey emotional disintegration, as when an individual’s inner feelings are depicted as fractured ([5]). Additionally, the term enriches visual imagery in descriptions of nature or man-made structures, from the fractured, weathered edges of limestone ([6]) to the deliberate portrayal of broken architectural elements ([7]), thereby encapsulating both the tangible and intangible aspects of disintegration in literary works.
- But in those moments when he felt better and his head was clear of pain, he had not seriously thought of a fractured skull.
— from The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood - He had a bullet in the wall of the carotid artery, for one thing, and a fractured thigh.
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart - The skull was fractured; fragments of bone were driven into the brain.
— from Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle - And it caught my eye that the corner of the marble table near me was fractured.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - She was too wary to admit it; I was too incapable of touching my own fractured emotions.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover - the limestone appears to be of an excellent quality of deep blue colour when fractured and of a light led colour where exposed to the weather.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - One broken baluster is placed on the pediment like a fractured leg.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
