(a.) Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) AA Gill, The Sunday Times's TV critic, said Capaldi's version of the Doctor was "not unlike Richard Dawkins (the scientist), madly science-fictive and theophobic, with selective amnesia and vague formless feelings of charity".
(2) I swear off the aromatics of gin in favour of the cold, formless punch of vodka, better still with a glug of lime cordial.
(3) Hugo was expert at describing the formless suburbs: "that funny, rather ugly semi-rural landscape, with its odd, dual nature, that surrounds certain big cities, notably Paris.
(4) Our campaign believes there is a constructive middle ground between sanitised and formless anger.
(5) By electron microscopic observation hyaluronic acid was 2,000A-5,000A formless mass and the protein complex that had lubricating ability was 200A-300A spherical particle.
(6) Anna's struggle with formlessness, with the seemingly separate and competing parts of herself, mirrored on a first reading my struggle in young adulthood – who was I, who did I want to be?
(7) Study 1 concerned the effects of sound at midline on scanning in darkness and in a lit but formless field.
(8) The teller, the narrator of the book, is a formless, omniscient voice with no elaborate Rothian construct to justify his role.
(9) Despite its apparent formlessness, Andrei Rublev is precisely structured and entirely aesthetically coherent.
(10) Keys's departure is really about the death of the " BlackBerry Keep Moving " project, a formless idea which aimed to get writers (Neil Gaiman), filmmakers (Robert Rodriguez) and musicians (Keys) to bandy the BlackBerry name around and bring young people to the company site, where they could be enthused with the benefits of new phones.
(11) The Dunga years seemed to put the shackles on, but I still remember a few games from that period when they turned into a wildly formless herd of very good footballers.
(12) Macaque monkeys become myopic when raised with fused lids to expose the retina to formless shadows during the period of postnatal eye development.
(13) The meticulous crafting of huge piles of rubbish into tricksy self-portraits - revealed only when light is projected upon the apparently formless heap and shadows are thrown against the wall - in both Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) and The Undesirables - are satisfyingly clever and punning, for example.
(14) In cells fixed while aggregating, few microtrabeculae are observed, although formless thickenings are observed in the cortices, on granules, and between clumped granules.
(15) (Slavoj Žižek calls this comic disjunction the "split between the food's image and the real of its formless excremental remainder".)
(16) Like Trump, they channel their own narcissism to give voice to the wordless, formless rage of the people neoliberalism left behind.
(17) He explained that the apparent "formlessness" of the book came about because he was having to write screenplays at the time, and had become tired of their brevity and their need for "beginnings, middles, and ends".
(18) The knowledge provided by ultrastructural analysis of brain tissue from the human disorders of mental retardation or dementia is "still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection," and only future developments in lacking neurobiology will make possible the dissection of the primary phenomena from the secretory and probably irrelevant findings.
(19) Violence valued only for the aesthetic satisfaction in dismembering persons and things to formlessness suggests an attempt to kill time.
(20) "Every choice I've ever made," says Brook, "has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.
Gormless
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
(2) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
(3) He may look just as gormless, but it's in a totally different way.
(4) A by no means exhaustive list of his political interventions includes: health – he forced ministers to listen to his gormless support for homeopathic treatments and every other variety of charlatanism and quackery; defence – he protested against cuts in the armed forces; justice – he complained about ordinary people’s access to law, or as he put it: “I dread the very real and growing prospect of an American-style personal injury culture”; political correctness – he opposes equality as I suppose a true royal must; GM foods – he thinks they’re dangerous, regardless of evidence; modern architecture – he’s against; and eco-towns – he’s for, as long as he has a say in their design.
(5) That the gormless believed a straight lie was all the proof it needed.
(6) These photos – if you look past the gormless Wayfarer-wearing Joey Essex-alike pouring champagne off the roof in the foreground – might reveal the location of several hidden assets.
(7) Just ask the gormless Sarah, who – bless – didn’t think a CV would help her find work and missed a meeting with her work coach back in March.
(8) Plus, he is a film star playing a film star, a gormless, 1950s version of himself, in a film that is partly about the surreal production-line nature of Hollywood’s golden age.
(9) It was a mess of pointless statistics and gormless campaigny stunts, like the one where Heston put a giant breakfast on the floor near a train station and chased commuters around until they ate it.
(10) Reaction around the globe was much the same: half the world shook their heads in sadness, their spirits crushed, as they considered the loss of El Diego's talent and the narratives that never would be; the other hopped around from foot to foot with big gormless grins on their faces as though their lottery numbers had just come up.
(11) It's a gormless action film about bloodthirsty revenge.
(12) But Malaysia's fancifully named " hibiscus revolution " has potential, at least, to inflict a winter of discontent on the gormless government of prime minister Najib Razak.
(13) Already Jared Kushner, husband to Ivanka, has reportedly ousted the head of the transition, the hapless and gormless New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.
(14) People go on and on about Columbo and how what made him so clever was that he acted gormless.
(15) But the Saatchi team refined it further, depicting a gormless-looking Miliband peeping out of Salmond’s top pocket.
(16) When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste-jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
(17) If you truly can’t bear to watch the latest car crash in a Liberal election campaign that’s already rated women candidates for their “ sex appeal ” above their ability to discern “refugee intake” from a “traffic refuge island” and involved the gormless sexualisation of young female netball players , I’ll do my best to describe it again without gagging.
(18) The Great British Menu is easily just as gormless as MasterChef.
(19) The utter capitulation of London’s planning system in the face of serious money is detectable right there in that infantile, random collection of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the privatised air.