plotless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- plotlessly adverb
- plotlessness noun
Example Sentences
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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
These are the three parts of George Balanchine’s “Jewels,” from 1967, often described as the first full-length plotless ballet.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2023
I say “seems” because the effort to reframe numbers like this one as plotless when they clearly aren’t sometimes renders them merely murky, no matter how good the dancing.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023
Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 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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