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Its error is to confuse formlessness with freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

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

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

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