"staccato applause"
"a staccato command"
"staccato notes"
"Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"
"a league of disunited nations"
"a fragmented coalition"
"a split group"
"abrupt prose"
"the iron is disconnected"
"a confused set of instructions"
"a confused dream about the end of the world"
"disconnected fragments of a story"
"scattered thoughts"