plotless
Americanadjective
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The prolific, award-winning British author’s novels are often plotless, discursive and frustratingly obtuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
This first half is plotless and rambling, with a crime mystery yielding digressions within digressions within digressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kinsky’s roaming Sebald-esque novels like “Grove” and “River” have made her a household name in plotless fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” is, by the show’s own admission, almost plotless.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Both movies were rather plotless and I had a hard time communicating the gist of them.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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