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But in the spirit of plotlessness and nonmessaging, let me not argue that too much.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023

Amid the general floaty plotlessness of the material – it’s no Les Mis, put it that way – will audiences emotionally invest in these abject, unearthly creatures, either as cats or as extensions of ourselves?

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2019

At New York City Ballet — the company that consistently did the most to propagate plotlessness in 20th-century classical ballet — the past season was mainly given over to full-evening story ballets.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2010

There's an inherent plotlessness one has to contend with in the lives of civilized people, you see.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stevenson substituted a lively, normal interest in life for plotlessness and a surfeit of the flesh.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard