plotless
Americanadjective
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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
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
The second “called himself a ‘visual storyteller’ instead of admitting he was a guy who made abstract, plotless movies.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 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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