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After a jokey faux-serious documentary narration opening, the first two songs stretch out shapelessly for way too long.

From Time Magazine Archive

As told by Elvira Vernet, the book's energetic, keen-eyed narrator, unlucky in love but gifted in perception, the stories of romance, betrayal and fortune seeking pile up gorgeously but shapelessly, like successive canopies of foliage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Middle West is the utility empire sprawled somewhat shapelessly through 5,321 small cities and towns serving 6,000,000 people.

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These two amiable monsters, as shapelessly alike as two corpulent snails, seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can stick his long-stemmed eyeballs farthest out of his head.

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The mists of slumber still hung about him, and the events of the last forty-eight hours showed vast and shapelessly threatening through them.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean