It provides a handle on the disparate events - and not just the football matches - unfolding across the southernmost nation of the dark continent.

Through these disparate events, something was liberated in him.

A number of disparate events coalesced.

All of the main chronicler accounts carry significant regional biases in how they portray the disparate events.

In a skillfully crafted tale, thematic patterning may be arranged so as to emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea which disparate events and disparate frames have in common.