Unchronological

Unfailingly unchronological (we learn about the day 15-year-old Martin lost his virginity – to a girl he met in a Wimpy bar – on page 294) and diffuse in its apparent aims, the memoir wanders off just when we want it to settle down and concentrate. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Both biographies contain unchronological and misleading statements, which have led some critics to reject the lives as altogether valueless. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The book is fragmentary and unchronological in its arrangement. ❋ Josiah Blake Tidwell (1908)

"Many [= o] shu," or Book of Myriad Poems, expresses the thoughts and feelings; reflects the manners and customs of the primitive generations, and, in the same sense as do the Sagas of the Scandinavians, furnishes us unchronological but interesting and more or less real narratives of events which have been glorified by the poets and artists. ❋ William Elliot Griffis (1885)

The story was being told to an uncritical and unchronological audience, or Dame Agnes might have received a gentle intimation that she was antedating the reign of King Arthur by the short period of two hundred years. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

"Was it Charlemagne?" eagerly responded the unchronological Bertram. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Sahadeva is an unchronological list of collateral lines of the third period, therefore of no value for the computation of time. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Death-devoted final acts from Verdi's Otello, Rigoletto and Simon Boccanegra awkwardly running in that unchronological order of composition made up the programme, and for the latter two operas, Domingo descended to a baritone range to take the title roles. ❋ Rupert Christiansen (2011)

What is necessary but a bust and name? and perhaps a date? the last for the unchronological, of whom ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

This new series continues in the vein of the first, being completely unchronological in its episode ordering. ❋ Unknown (2008)