Example Sentences

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It’s unusual for a film’s relative formlessness to feel so satisfyingly good in the final stretch.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2021

This is a man who, armed with only the grain of an idea — what Henry James calls the “windblown” seed — lives for weeks in a state of formlessness.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2020

I proceed from some open and elusive subconscious formlessness roughly called “me”, definable only by being nothing and nowhere, just the silence in which shapes move.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2019

There are suggestions of cumin and garlic, practically dreamlike in their fleetingness and formlessness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

It was a kind of formlessness without any definition....

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife