The essential features of this disorder are discrete episodes of loss of control of aggressive impulses, resulting in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property.

A cross between a Kabuki dance and a Mondrian painting, the choreography both distills and abstracts within a series of discrete episodes.

As on "Radiance," Mr. Jarrett divided the concert into discrete episodes, each pointing toward the next.

He presents his narrative as a series of discrete episodes often without any transitional or scene-changing lines, much like the sketches of myth strung together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Its weakness is paradoxically its strength: discrete episodes have impact, but their cumulative aspect is questionable.

The aria, or theme, that frames the score's 30 variations, becomes loosely symbolic of life's journey; each variation is choreographed as a discrete episode.

Mr. Higgins's "To Everything Its Season" was first on the program: a series of discrete episodes, with the conductor rolling dice to control the shape of each.

"One Eye" now looks tighter, having lost some of its rambling spontaneity, but its sprawling eclecticism spills over into discrete episodes with nuance and subtlety.

The movie eschews conventional narrative, choosing to build, in discrete episodes, on the horrifyingly hilarious revelation that Fate rolls into everyone.

He treated each chorus as a discrete episode, though there were several motifs, notably a muezzin-like cry, that kept returning.