(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.
Shapeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an earlier demonstration binocular shapes were produced from monocularly shapeless, random-dot stereo images.
(2) A week ago, the plane was a shapeless lump of metal.
(3) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
(4) Around its foot is precisely the sort of shapeless, windswept, nothing place that we were supposed to have learned not to do in the 1970s.
(5) Early on in the evolution of cinema sound a number of theorists recognised this power and said the ability to manipulate sound creatively will redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise.
(6) In cells where no persistent nucleoli as such were noted, nucleolar material was observed to attach to the chromosomes in shapeless masses which moved with the chromosomes during anaphase.
(7) They are political, argues its founder, Deborah Coughlin, because they dress in shapeless cloaks so the audience can't judge them by their bodies, because they support each other, and because they sing about women's real lives, rather than fantasy.
(8) But those who have not lost the power to examine themselves will probably find something basically true in the prolix, shapeless study of a futile frustrated wretch, even if they do not get as far as extending much sympathy to him.
(9) Anxiety in this mode consists of an unspeakable terror of the dissolution of boundedness resulting in feelings of leaking, falling or dissolving into endless, shapeless space.
(10) Not imposing and shapeless, not heavy to the point of having drooped, but, rather, something with a bit of shape … A real chest is round, comfortable, welcoming, and one should be able to put one’s nose into the middle with jubilation.” The weekly L’Express complained under the headline “The macho-erotic thoughts of Edouard Philippe’s hero” .
(11) Clearly, not all men are like cliches from Nuts magazine and want women in skintight clothes, but I would wager that most men prefer it when women wear clothes that fit them as opposed to shapeless sacks.
(12) Studies of the effects of the anthelminthic agent albendazole on the tissues of D. latum in vivo showed large shapeless protrusions of the outer tegumental cytoplasm on the surface of strobila, the mitochondrial degeneration in the tegumental cells and their nucleolar material segregation.
(13) Touré had his moments, and Jesús Navas offered flashes of quality down the flank, but too much of the visitors’ approach was shapeless, lacking composure in the face of QPR’s bite and energy.
(14) Yet amid much slapdash, shapeless, helter-skelter stuff – for prolonged spells it seemed more like a Championship game – Fabricio Coloccini should have given Newcastle an early lead.
(15) Unlike 80s fashion, there was no sense of fun in it, just a jaded, "I'm too cool to try, and that's why I'm wearing my shapeless slip dress over my bad jeans".
(16) All a bit shapeless, but there's less than 30 seconds gone, so there's plenty of time.
(17) Instead, the game meandered along rather shapelessly, not helped by a raft of substitutions and ending with a half-hearted attempt at the Mexican wave and some of the fans behind one goal amusing themselves by batting around a beach ball.
(18) A science-fiction film released in 1958 depicts how the "Blob", a giant shapeless amoeba-like alien, takes over a small American town and defies every attempt to destroy it .
(19) Does anyone know where I can buy a shapeless hemp shift dress?
(20) Whether considering the meagre tally of 10 points from 12 games since Manchester City were beaten here in September, or assessing this shapeless performance against a team who started in the bottom three and set up to avoid defeat, the Villa manager has to stem a spiral that is dragging his team into another battle against relegation.