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Its relative shapelessness, along with its use of a ghostwriter, doesn’t bolster her literary credentials, but its existence points to Monroe’s ambition to have them.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2023

That “Heat” is plotted as tightly as a Swiss watch makes the shapelessness of this follow-up all the harder to forgive.

From Washington Post Aug. 9, 2022

Where De Rotterdam uses its chameleonic design to pay homage to the shapelessness of the city, OMA’s Timmerhuis, completed in 2015, offers a subtler kind of formlessness.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2018

And, after that, the uncared-for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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