The next level is less literal, more psychological, and involves several disparate strands.

Pulling together disparate strands and trying to weave together a whole that doesn't quite work.

By collecting such disparate strands into one vision, she defiantly embraces a cosmopolitanism that is hard put to assert itself in our dark age.

The novel coalesce into an ending that brings together the disparate narrative strands amongst the three central male characters.

But within the camp the disparate strands of his life came together.

To do this and give momentum to all the disparate narrative strands, she relies on lots of portentous foreshadowing.

And over the course of an hour, the tales' disparate strands are also braided - into a delightfully twisted comedy.

The work's disparate strands resist that control until the end of the second movement, which offers some wonderful full ensemble scrambling.

In his Government's short life, nearly all of these disparate strands have brought their influence to bear on the new Congo, formerly called Zaire.

But ultimately, Barber fails to tie the disparate strands into a coherent argument.