| 单词 | formless |
| 例句 | Sosie stared at Jennifer’s mouth, trying hard to make out the words that rushed over her lips in a formless torrent. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I start drawing hills on my notebook in tribute to our state’s highest point, but they look more like formless lumps or airborne snakes—I can’t decide. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There followed more formless time for the cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At once, the whole moth, already years dead, disintegrated, collapsing into a soft, formless heap of dark dust. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The forest had changed from a collection of trees to a dark, formless mass. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They all clashed with the formless beast, eventually casting it back into the darkness below. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But as time passed and the game progressed, Set’s face hardened and cracked into a wicked leer, and it became clear that his strange, sunken, formless body was the very shape of evil. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Either he must go down the hill into the desert lands and lightless cities of the dead, or he must step across the wall back into life, where the formless evil thing waited for him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then like black smoke on the wind it recoiled and fled, formless, down the water towards the bright gate between the cliffs. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Although both were unshaped, formless things, Nel seemed stronger and more consistent than Sula, who could hardly be counted on to sustain any emotion for more than three minutes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I’d heard the piano played countless times before, to accompany hymns, but when Mary played it, the sound was nothing like that formless clunking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Below them, at the bottom of a fall of some fifteen hundred feet, lay the inner plain stretching away into a formless gloom beyond their sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into order: the chain that had been lying hitherto a formless lump of links was drawn out straight,—every ring was perfect, the connection complete. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z True reasoning convinced me that I should wholly subtract all remnants of every kind of form if I wished to conceive the absolutely formless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He began to see her as an enormous container that held a formless, gelatinous mass that he was unable to view as his own child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A noise comes from among us, a formless assent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z All those months, my thoughts crammed into a formless world? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A formless music for the age to come. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He wondered if this was how monsters felt when they were defeated—bursting into dust, helpless and formless. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the watery moonlight, the island’s volcano was a formless monster wearing a halo of thin gray clouds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Beyond the river the land appeared flat and empty, formless and vague, until far away it rose again like a wall, dark and drear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As soon as the land faded into a formless grey under coming night, they started out again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A world of dim, unsensing consciousness; a consciousness of darkness and of silence and of formless struggle. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The screen of the empathy box now showed rushing streams of bright formless color; taking a breath, his wife hung on tightly to the two handles. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In English, it sounded funny to us, as mushy and formless as the cereal itself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Out of the formless stream of sad but horrible sounds, strings of words would now and again shape themselves: grim, hard, cold words, heartless and miserable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And then it took shape in the mist: a dark house, which loomed at them out of the formless whiteness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The community cloth was drab, all no-color; the formless shifts and trousers worn by the people were woven and stitched for protection against the sudden occasional rain, thorn scratch, or poison berry. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon he had become a formless, unidentifiable heap of something that smelled of rot. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was like a formless white death, suddenly appeared before me, a death which had been there all the time and which had now revealed itself in the madness of the Golden Day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z El makes me try on everything from my eighth-grade graduation dress to this formless, chiffon floral tunic my mom bought me last Christmas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Long before the gods appeared, in the dim past, uncounted ages ago, there was only the formless confusion of Chaos brooded over by unbroken darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z From someone else, for instance Janice, the contact would simply be casual, friendly, just a kind of parlance, formless, easy talk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This idea hangs between us, almost visible, almost palpable: heavy, formless, dark; collusion of a sort, betrayal of a sort. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They were alone in a grey formless world without mark or measure. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Outside, the world had become a formless, swirling mist with no shapes or shadows behind it, while the house itself seemed to have twisted and stretched. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Before the beginning there was nothing—no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z More students arrived to school on foot, and Moss noticed a group of them collecting across the street, their voices loud and exuberant, but not more so than the pulsing, formless entity outside the school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She looked down on her long thin and as yet formless legs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The form falls away, and the formless blossoms,” Ms. Buck repeated softly. The Topanga Tea Ceremony 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z This revived, rethought display of world cultures should reject both the false promise of “universalism” and the formless box-ticking of “diversity.” The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Another contestant managed “stylopharyngeus” but stumbled over the short but thorny “boyg,” a Norwegian borrowing that means “a formless or pervasive obstacle, problem, or enemy.” Pete’s Candy Store Hosts a Spelling Bee for Adults 2013-08-01T20:06:51Z In the foreground sprawls a formless mess of shacks and mud. Critic’s Notebook: Charles Marville’s Pictures Show What Was Destroyed 2014-03-09T21:55:35Z The endorsement notwithstanding, I found the stories plotless and, worse, formless. A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Woods fared infinitely better, alternating between concise songs and formless but purposeful bouts of noise. Music Review: Joshua Light Show in Residence at Abrons Arts Center 2010-05-14T21:54:00Z Today, more than ever, I am left with a respect for the formless hunch which was our guide, and it has left me with a profound suspicion of the now much-used word "concept". Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z Mr. Price’s almost indescribable ceramics are revered by fellow artists for dissolving the chasm between art and craft, while his lumpy, blobby, sluglike new sculptures are quintessential examples of biomorphic or formless art. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z Its own author called it “reckless and formless.” The Immediate Family Adapts 'Peer Gynt' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Some of the songs can be melodic and concise, while others are formless drones that go on for six or seven minutes. New band of the day ? No 862: Twin Sister 2010-09-07T16:06:00Z It was “Tristan,” in Ross’s description, that “set the course for an avant-garde art of dream logic, mental intoxication, formless form, limitless desire.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But constraints are vital to creativity, or things become formless. This Week in Fiction: Cynan Jones on His Story “The Edge of the Shoal” 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Sign In to E-Mail Print Much of “Radio Play,” a formless jumble of dopey humor and loopy music, by Tommy Smith and the alt-comedy darling Reggie Watts, is performed in almost complete darkness. | 'Radio Play' : Back to a Time (the ?80s) When Digital Was a Mere Dream 2011-05-16T21:41:52Z “Refrigerator Door” is a big, formless ocean of nostalgia. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “It’s about preserving a sense of professionalism in a formless environment, where the sense of urgency is gone,” he said. Dressing Up for Work … at Home 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z I couldn’t bring myself to look at the formless heap beside her. Two Open Marriages in One Small Room 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag, writing about Leiris’s “Manhood,” noted that the book was “formless,” “provides no consummation or climax,” and is “sometimes boring.” Megan Boyle’s “Liveblog” and the Limits of Autofiction 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “Bits and pieces of a city are splattered across the landscape. By this irrational process, non-communities are born — formless places without order, beauty or reason, places with no visible respect for people or the land.” Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Not a complete, stand-alone journey with beginning and end, but a sort of formless middle, designed to lull listeners into slumber and trap them there, in hopes that they might never press stop. Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, Hip-Hop Impressionists Shaping the Stream 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night, Arca and Kanda’s collaborative set was physically difficult to listen to and sometimes a bit formless. Live: Arca unsettles and re-invents at Hollywood Forever 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The season returns a number of characters from past seasons, but the long war, in a way, is the ultimate enemy — formless, multiheaded and endlessly able to reconstitute itself and survive. ‘Homeland’ Gives the Long War a Long Goodbye 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Displaying an adroit way with language that lifts the film’s saggier, more formless moments, Mr. Fisher is an astute and pitiless observer of our less noble instincts. Movie Review: In ‘Blumenthal,’ Relatives React to a Playwright’s Death 2014-03-27T23:11:50Z On “Set Sail for the Sun,” a Karlheinz Stockhausen piece based on a set of instructions, the group undertook a slow accretion of overtones, formless but focused. Music Review: Jazz With a Humorist Urge and a Whiff of Mystery 2010-10-25T22:19:00Z Nearly formless, it can slip like a mouse through a tiny crack. “Life” Is Full of Horrors 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z They seemed like a nuisance, watery and sticky and formless, unlike the flesh of the melon itself. Don't trash the best part of the melon 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z “Be water” has been one of the mantras of the Hong Kong protesters – fluid and formless, surging through city streets. I need a hero: finding courage, defiance and joy in the dark days of 2019 | Josephine Tovey 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z I mean it really hits him: He’s entered by a formless phantasm with a baby’s cry. Review: ‘Preacher’ Goes to Heaven, Hell and Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Every choice I've ever made," says Brook, "has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z Instead of formless atmospherica, you get structured songs with aching chord progressions, over which Ward sings. New band of the day ? No 1,083: Tropics 2011-08-12T16:41:07Z At the core of this roar, however, was a fire all its own — a cathartic, formless, collectively breathless “finally.” Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “What sets the show apart is its tireless, formless, free-flowing pursuit of laughs,” The New York Times’s Mike Hale wrote in his review of... Submit Questions for Robert Carlock of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z "Captains" does indeed seem formless at first, a meandering assemblage of scenes. Boys' energy lights up 'You Are All Captains' 2011-11-17T20:29:03Z Cough is like hearing the din from 50s Sheffield; three minutes of metal machine music that you imagine Lou Reed's formless opus might be like. New band of the day ? No 1,078: Ghost Outfit 2011-08-05T16:59:00Z But the real problem is that "South of the Border" is a little formless, not quite grounded in the present. 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone's portrait of an evolving Latin America 2010-07-29T20:30:00Z As the music unfolds, the intensity subsides, but the overall flow remains radically formless, until strands of lines and inner voices slowly coalesce. Music Review: ‘The Baroque Vanguard,’ at the Miller Theater 2013-04-30T20:55:35Z Krauss’s chapters reflect her concern that “the cost of administering a form to what was essentially formless was akin to the cost of breaking the spirit of an animal.” Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Coleman, who had been gigging a bit in California but making his living as an elevator operator, appeared to spring from nowhere, fully formed, to make music that was like nothing else, formless. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Many of the movements are inchoate, dissolving almost as soon as grasped; there are repetitive tics, sternly and frowningly addressed, and sudden whims, expressed in breezily formless rushes of activity. The Place prize; Mayerling – review 2013-04-27T23:05:52Z In The New York Times Bosley Crowther groused that the movie was “frantic and formless,” condemning it for “scurrilous” agitprop techniques. The Film‘Far From Vietnam’ Returns After Decades 2013-08-27T21:47:06Z Its absence seemed apt, since the contributors’ gathering was an unstructured, formless, familial chat with no intent beyond celebration and reminiscing. Thank you, Larry Wilmore: “The Nightly Show” goes out with a party — and a reminder to “not confuse cancellation with failure” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Neuwirth, whose priceless deadpan manner is one of Broadway’s great assets, here uses it as a means of distancing herself from an icky show and a formless part. | 'The Addams Family': Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth on Broadway 2010-04-09T02:29:00Z A sentiment that, at the end of a long and formless awards show, plenty of us can also share. Review: A Driverless Oscars Takes a Winding Road 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Rather than the formless exterior at Oakfield, there are courts and gardens into which the classrooms open. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z The institutional or in-house museum is a large, formless category, ranging from the casual display of a few documents in a publicly accessible space to a designated, formal, fully researched and designed exhibition building. Perspective | Can institutions tell their own stories? Yes, if they learn to think like a museum. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z "It's utterly formless, it's almost invisible and I began to think it was odd that it was the only thing I didn't know how to shape." Merseyside mist to form 2012 Cultural Olympiad artwork 2011-03-02T18:44:52Z Understated to a fault, its chief components are a formless suit, flat or low-heeled shoes and a noncommittal hairstyle. The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z The impact of Carrey’s breakthrough year – in which he also released Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Dumb and Dumber – was so seismic that people tend to forget how soggy and formless The Mask is. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The sticky, formless material suggests both flesh itself and human life’s metaphorical connection to earth. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z After some formless preamble, they locked into the slinky syncopations of “Rolling Vamp,” by Mr. Lake. Music Review: Tarbaby, Featuring Oliver Lake, at the Jazz Standard 2013-09-04T20:52:20Z As formless as its cousins, it’s aptly named for the way it’s served: spooned to catch the crusted edges and barely set center in one serving. Sweet, Tender and Studded With Strawberries 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “Swarm” doesn’t work through or make strong dramatic use of those ideas, though, and it ends in a formless, non-sequiturish, let’s-get-this-over-with manner. ‘Swarm’ Review: The Underside of ‘Atlanta’ 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Anna quits years of therapy, recognizing it is an evasive way of “rescuing the formless into form.” Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z He is a beautifully formless singer — not a naïf but a shy wolf. Spooky Black and thestand4rd Perform at S.O.B.’s 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z It's as if she pulls it off against the odds – her voice is thin and quiet, and it is, after all, just her, pushing buttons, playing loose and formless songs. Coachella festival 2013 day three: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave, Grimes – review 2013-04-15T09:49:58Z One begins: “Hanne was only 7, but she already possessed a great deal of formless anxiety.” Tove Ditlevsen’s Fiction Is Bleak and Claustrophobic — Mostly in a Good Way 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s a nigh-perfect embodiment of the classic Shepard man without qualities, stripped down to his formless core and wondering how he ever thought he was not just somebody, but anybody at all. Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Simpatico,’ Cut Loose and Roaming Wild 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z But if your brain responds to the Baltimore duo, the slow organ washes and ethereal vocals, the mix of formless trance and structure is irresistible, and “Depression Cherry” is one of the band’s best. Great indie-rock moments 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The chaos evoked is not forbidding, just formless, yet alive, waiting to become something. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z Set mostly in the Bay Area at the tail end of the 1960s, the novel follows Evie Boyd through the “endless, formless summer” before she goes off to boarding school. Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The script’s rote dialogue, which calls feminism destructive, is as formless as a bot’s writing. Roe v Wade: an anti-abortion film of staggering ineptitude 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z At that birthday concert, Mr. Price gave shape and direction to an event that could have been a formless variety show. Music Review: A Bachelor, Five Couples and All Their Tuneful Discontents 2011-04-08T23:21:13Z Most striking is how “Future” and “Hndrxx” tell two different stories, while feeling like part of the same formless narrative. Future and the Art of Flooding the Market 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z I have no doubt some viewers will experience "Asteroid City" as a maddening Russian doll nested with clever but pointless gags, or as arbitrary and formless. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z It's probably best we don't even mention the formless debacle that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Can Mark Millar be a superhero for Twentieth Century Fox? 2012-09-28T16:26:29Z Their needs gave a structure to formless days; their affection was an antidote to the loneliness of social distancing; their energy was an excuse to get out of the house. In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z His buildings and structures are composed of multiple layers and levels, creating permeable enclosures that only loosely suggest rooms and routes – what he describes as "formless form". Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine pavilion promises a breath of fresh air 2013-02-18T13:26:00Z In general, a beautiful song, apparently formless but perfectly executed, down to the final, chalky drum beat. Friday Favorites: Yuni in Taxco, The Good Sin, Witch Gardens 2010-12-17T18:03:05Z I saw a glorious future like a bubble hovering above me, an ineffable sense of promise that would quench my ungrounded and formless desire to be recognised, appreciated and loved. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z At first, free improvised music will sound like formless, pointless chaos. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z Satire, especially the broad, formless satire of Who Is America? can only get you so far. Who is America?: Why Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy failed to land a punch 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z That’s why it’s almost formless, with so many details that have no narrative function. Book Talk: Karl Ove Knausgaard on life after his 'Struggle' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Deceptively formless, it is music to be inhabited. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z It is the quintessential classical-music form, yet it is formless, with no prescribed rules or limits. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Unlike Christmas or Thanksgiving, Halloween, after one is a child, is something of a formless holiday, stretching to the weekend before or after the day itself and occupying no defined purpose. How Halloween became the official holiday of celebrity thirst 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s as if Mayer is so cowed and discombobulated by sexual attraction that he devolves—becomes a dopey, formless version of himself. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z If Mr. Payton’s best solos assumed compelling dynamic arcs, Mr. Lawrence’s evoked the formless clout of the elements. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z At the merchandise table were cassettes, as is the norm these days, among young bands interested in formless sounds. ArtsBeat: In Williamsburg, CMJ Kicks Off in a Warehouse 2010-10-20T09:19:00Z Hindus worship several gods, who they believe to be manifestations of the one formless supreme being. Iowa’s two campaigns: Donald Trump’s rivals search for paths to stop him as he blazes his own trail 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Pol has already sought such hotspots in the available PTA observations by looking in the data for signs of anisotropy—that is, signs of variation and structure rather than formless homogeneity. A Background ‘Hum’ Pervades the Universe. Scientists Are Racing to Find Its Source 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s a formless Final Four after a formless season in a sport increasingly formless, with 16 different qualifiers for the last four Final Fours. Analysis | A flea-market Final Four is plenty of fun if you have the right spirit 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z And the set’s backdrop seems to magically shift depending on how the lighting hits it, morphing from an outline of mountains to a thick forest to a mass of formless bodies in a crowd. Looks may be deceiving in Seattle Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’ 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Because we can’t remember it, illiteracy can seem total, akin to the formless darkness many sighted people imagine blind people see. Learning to read, one TikTok at a time 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Pamela began drawing at about age 4 — not the usual formless doodles of little kids but remarkably sophisticated faces and figures. ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ at 100: The story behind the classic Christmas tale 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z They are formless putty in the hospital’s hands. Lessons From a ‘Difficult Patient’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Filmed at a depth of 1,400 feet, the creature seemed to be formless, lacking limbs and covered with bumps. American ocean explorers discover unknown blue organism on seafloor southwest of St. Croix 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Abstraction is a concrete way of expressing formless qualities. Can abstract art help us learn how to accept suffering in a spiraling world? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z It started with whistles, desperate and urgent, only to turn into something closer to a roar, formless and elemental, filled with angst and anticipation, as if the sound itself could ward off any more suffering. Real Madrid Ousts Chelsea by Turning a Collapse Into a Classic 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z But just as the clouds above us, however formless or ethereal they may appear to be, are in fact made of matter, the Cloud of the digital is also relentlessly material. The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z No, no, we must pick the most qualified person, and the only way we can be sure we aren’t influenced by traits is if this person is a formless mind floating in a void. Opinion | The only way to know we aren’t picking a justice for the wrong reason is to choose a White man 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The game between his team, Marseille, and the host, Lyon, was young and still formless. Plagued by Fan Violence, French Soccer Asks: Why? 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z He’d always felt compelled to build something larger from that material, lest it vanish into a “formless blob of content” or rot on an old hard drive. The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z That felt like a commensurate response to a joke told over text, until the well became poisoned by that formless string of “HA”s. The Best Way to Respond to Text Messages 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s an archetypal formless villain, a distant cousin of supernatural scourges like the Nothing from “The Neverending Story,” but it also carries a whiff of real-world metaphor. Review: 'Raya and the Last Dragon,' featuring Disney's first Southeast Asian heroine, is a moving adventure 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z These images float, pleasantly, and suggest a happier time before I show up as a fat-cheeked, almost formless baby. The Many Lives of Steven Yeun 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z But then in a flash it’s gone, along with everything else, when he takes a fatal tumble and lands somewhere in a dark, formless void. Review: It's not quite 'Inside Out,' but Pixar's metaphysical comedy 'Soul' will lift your spirits 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z They’re paradigmatic, emblematic: When you’ve shaped yourself almost entirely in opposition to someone who has been vanquished, are you free or formless? Opinion | Who Will We Be Without Donald Trump? 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z I didn't have any sympathy for Clinton's formless neoliberal politics, but from a personal perspective the sexist undertones were clear. Trumpism: The dead end of neoliberal politics 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z In the beginning there was Covid-19, and the tribe of the white collars rent their garments, for their workdays were a formless void, and all their rituals were gone. God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z But muffled German football shrieking still sounds like a thrillingly formless thing, perhaps even some kind of pointed commentary on the absurdity of the basic spectacle itself. Manchester City's twisting tale can offer a new chapter of stranger things | Barney Ronay 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Within the flailing combustion of True Fine Mama we now recognise a conventional 12-bar blues; at the time we heard formless galactic meltdown. Little Richard obituary 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z April was a frantic blur, at hospitals, in makeshift wards in hallways and closets, in formless days as nurses tried to salve gasping patients. April was death. April was hope. April was cruel. Minus the cosmetic adjustments, and in the doldrums of long, formless days, they might seem a little tired. Want solidarity in the time of coronavirus? Look no further than late-night TV 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z We moved through the space almost formless, simultaneously alone and part of one amorphous human whole. Art made for Instagram is taking over festivals – and taking us away from the experience of it | Celina Ribeiro 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s farcical that Elizabeth Warren made it until October before anyone put the bite on her about her formless, pie-in-the-sky health insurance program. Sondland bursts the ‘perfect’ bubble 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z That’s when it’s at its most frighteningly realistic stage, she notes, before the heat of the oven renders it more formless and the color less raw-flesh-like. It’s almost Halloween, and ‘feetloaf’ is already giving us nightmares 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Gillian had adored and envied her, felt herself formless and dull by contrast. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The only other video she’d made had disappointed her: She’d let the director take over, and felt the results were formless and flat. Angel Olsen’s Songs Made People Cry. Now She Wants Them to Swoon. 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Ten Years After follow with more choogling, formless blues rock, and the MC announces that the hospital has “an awful lot of broken limbs”. 'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Flashes of white provided historic musing - such as one formless ancient Greek tunic in white silk that gained its structure from the curves of the model’s body. Dior goes black in Paris show that celebrates couture roots 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The thing lands on the table resembling a giant sea cucumber, its formless mass blackened and pocked. Ronan makes stellar pizzas and a whole lot more 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z One of its defining features is a formless, shifting sense of self. The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Or, as Joyce Carol Oates put it: “We are willing to risk being called ‘formless’ by people whose ideas of form are rigidly limited.” John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The internet, being a formless electronic space, is harder for us to conceptualize in such concrete terms. Editorials from around New England 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Years of work and pleasure have become a formless sweater, taking months to unravel, each day finding myself tugging ever tighter in the cold. Digital minimalism: how do you KonMari a 10-year text message history? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The result can be “amusing,” writes Miller, but the writing is “scattered and formless.” Essential Arts: Stories of immigration on canvas, Ellen Reid's 'stunning' opera, an inspiring musical 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Politics of this sort was “the most formless of monsters … whatever it touches becomes, just like itself, docile, characterless”. The death of consensus: how conflict came back to politics 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “Leaning backward, Powell let go and — while falling — grabbed the formless rag with his one hand. The underwear sagged and stretched, but miraculously held.” Review | The big personality and big contributions of John Wesley Powell 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Of course there was skin under the dark, formless garment, but the sight of it is incongruous and mildly shocking. Naked body parts, hair as sculpture: The strange, sinister, seductive art of Julie Curtiss 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z He said the qipao began as a formless gown for house cleaning and was turned into a symbol of female empowerment. Prom dress 'cultural appropriation' 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” sounds less a rock album than a mystical folk cloud, formless and eternal, pulsating on the edge of the Big Bang. New Sentences: From ‘Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z As a critic, I came to loathe the longer Netflix dramas, edgier teen series like 13 Reasons Why, or even more formless comedies like Friends from College. A look back at 2017's good, bad, and most comforting TV 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z But these songs are too dull and formless to sell that notion. Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato aren't who you think they are 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Is the slumping Pope whose formless body is capped by a drunk’s red nose in fact a portrait of Dyer drunk, looking at a last vision of his former self? Pope painting by Francis Bacon to go on sale after 45 years hidden away 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z So far, The Orville isn’t exactly a bad show, but it’s disjointed and formless as it oscillates between the different things it’s trying to do. How Seth MacFarlane could save his terminally bland Star Trek clone The Orville 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In my first few months in Istanbul, I lived a formless kind of existence, days dissolving into the nights. Unlearning the myth of American innocence 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals. The Audacity of Robert Rauschenberg 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The requirement of this formless fascism would – above all else – be to remain in an endless state of conflict, a fight against a foe who must always be portrayed as impossibly strong and laughably weak. What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right' 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z They tell the formless mass in the cauldron tales of the too many times that they were told they were too much. Too loud. Nasty women have much work to do 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z And in order to describe its formless, playful sound, you need to invoke spaces that teeter on the edge of reality. The Avalanches' long-awaited new album Wildflower enables musical escapism 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z However, the reporter described the quoted soldier's testimony as "formless, lurid incoherence". Battle of the Somme: How Britain learned the truth - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z “It’s their heartbeat,” says Wilson as the game launches a cosmic creation routine that visualizes each formless pre-being as a mass of stars. The Next 'Skylanders' Is Way More Imaginative Than Anybody Realizes 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z All of us begin as a relatively formless embryo, and from there the cells follow an elaborate program. Learning From the Lazarus Effect 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Like on all other platforms, this first set of emoji are largely formless, outside of their eyes, mouth, and occasional accessory. A closer look at Android N's new emoji 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z He's making "dance music" — his chosen tempos occasionally push into trance territory — but it's slippery and formless. The Field's still finding joy in repetition on his new album The Follower 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Despite its original story and score, "its chaotic and formless comic structure lacks purpose, polish and point", and Tate's "impossible accent that veers from Southern drawl to Australia", he wrote. Catherine Tate musical Miss Atomic Bomb 'fails to detonate' - BBC News 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z An album that felt formless and elliptical has been given a new shape by Bowie’s sickness and death, and it’s a transformation that feels almost conscious. Even in death, David Bowie is one step ahead of us 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The man holding the cup in the street looks, from a distance, like just some guy in a wool cap, formless parka and rumpled pants. Richard Gere, quiet and moving in portrait of a homeless man 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z At their worst, as on the ugly second album, Derek and Clive Come Again, the act was a formless, cruel mess and a reflection of the duo’s increasingly toxic relationship. Derek and Clive are back – are they too much for the 21st century? 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Many executives start off this process well, then allow their subordinates to become undisciplined, and weekly 1:1s turn back into formless conversations that don’t produce results. Avoiding A Career Killer: Subordinates Who Don't Deliver Results 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z His childhood turned even more formless and reckless. You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But most important, over the next ten really formless years, my heart developed some contours and I learned what I loved most—writing was more important to me than politics. David Brooks to Grads: Be Really Good At Making Commitments 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z "There is no structure, it has been rather formless," he says. Is this campaign duller than usual? If so why? - BBC News 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z And the House of Black and White has so far proven to be a kind of formless, vaguely Lynchian allegory labyrinth. The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 3, The High Sparrow 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Spider dragline silk is made of fibrils comprising proteins that are made of crystalline structures that provide strength and amorphous, formless, regions that provide flexibility. Learning from nature's best : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Sixteen years ago, George W. Bush joined an unusually cluttered and formless Republican field in a race considered more wide open than any the party had ever seen. Jeb Bush and the ghost of W 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Here the ceremony was informal, almost formless, with people dropping in and out of attentiveness. Atoning for a Genocide | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z "Almost anything about the internet is going to have metaphors that help you understand it, because otherwise it’s formless," Cohen says. A history of metaphors for the internet 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z He was afraid of nameless, formless things that haunted his brain like the Furies. 'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Trams are re-emerging as a green solution to both pollution and urban sprawl: a striking number of the cities that are adopting them are formless sunbelt cities. Second wind 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z May, a leader of NASA’s Mars program, said that early in her career, Mars was known as little more than “a formless ball of red stuff.” D.C. students explore Mars from Earth at science festival 2014-04-26T01:15:09Z They name-check all the people who helped them, whom they've become close to, whose acts reassure them strength and goodness can be shaped from formless horror. Bombing couple still Boston strong 2014-04-15T00:00:17Z "Information is fairly formless, so almost everything we do online we do with some kind of metaphor," says Judith Donath, who studies interface design at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. A history of metaphors for the internet 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In terms of physics, this means our object is formless. Your Brain on Om: The Science of Mantra 2013-10-02T15:27:00Z The hearing focused a great deal on the FCC’s expanding but formless review of mergers and other transfers of radio spectrum between mobile network operators. Reining In A Rogue FCC 2013-07-15T13:34:00Z The creature designs are vague and formless, helped of course by the fact that we only see them as outlines. Rain – preview 2013-06-06T09:02:00Z These introduce themselves to the mind as if a series of visible objects in dark space, formless and noticeably of different colors.” From the words of an albino, a brilliant blend of color 2013-02-26T20:15:00.293Z Moreover, because information is formless, the metaphors we use to describe it are particularly powerful — they’re what gives it form, telling people how a service ought to be used. A history of metaphors for the internet 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Both hint at the importance of disrupting the structural scaffolding of brick and mortar metaphors and replacing them with the formless and ephemeral thinking of the cloud. Lessons on Innovation from Angry Birds Space, Bird in Space, and the Cloud. 2012-11-17T15:26:11Z The future is really about designing connection interfaces – UIs in a formless world – and meaning for a radically changed economy. Can You Be More Like Apple By Following These 7 Rules? 2012-10-10T13:09:37Z You Can’t Just Go 1, 2, 3, … Cosmologists have been thinking for years that our universe might be just one bubble amid countless bubbles floating in a formless void. How Do You Count Parallel Universes? You Can't Just Go 1, 2, 3, ... 2012-08-06T22:15:04.737Z Without the Higgs boson, the universe would have remained a formless soup of particles shooting around at the speed of light, the theory goes. "It's a boson:" Higgs quest bears new particle 2012-07-04T21:34:28Z But the Romans criticised the music severely as being formless. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z As to the mere memories, she knew that with slow but increasing pace they were receding from her, till on time's horizon they would end in a haze, golden but vague and formless. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z In a second phase, this formless, but personal, God was gradually shorn of all the qualities and defects which make individuality. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z All this shows how crude and cumbrous an implement was the episcopal and legatine Inquisition even in the most energetic hands, and how formless and tentative was its procedure. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Many specimens could be given, but they are generally too formless or extravagant to be interesting. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Architecture is nearest allied to music in its fundamental principles—can a formless house or church or any other building be imagined? Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z "Please, miss, the gentleman told me to give you this," said the messenger, awkwardly offering something which was only a formless mass in the darkness. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z We have not made it formless, we have made it contain more forms. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z With his last breath he had demanded of von Hardenberg to deliver up the Sunstone; and there he was--a huddled, formless object, lying at the foot of the altar. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Here he stood still, looking up the dim expanse, with the dusky shadows, like great winged, formless ghosts, hovering over him. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z It is monstrous, formless, whimsical, and fantastic, if you will; but it is also magical and gorgeous as anything in the Arabian Nights. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z But crystallization has been hampered by the solid condition of the mass and the new minerals are formless and have been unable to reject impurities, but have grown around them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z And here we may advance to our second class, who believe that the poetry of the future is to be democratic and formless. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z In the state a power or agency must never appear and act as a formless, inorganic shape, i.e. basing itself on the principle of multeity and mere numbers. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The Mundane Egg, received as a symbol of original, passive, unorganized, formless nature, became associated, in conformity with primitive notions, with other symbols referring to the creative force or vitalizing influence. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z What Spencer tried to do.—Spencer's aim was to show that "our harmonious Universe once existed potentially as formless diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organised state." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Thought was suspended; sight and hearing failed; there was a void about me, blank and formless as my mind. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z That distinction is, that the relation of prose to verse is not the relation of the formless to the formal: it is the relation of more forms to fewer forms. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Whitman has, amid the fleshly and physical poems, much that is deeply spiritual; amid the tuneless and formless, much noble thought fitly voiced. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Christian lived at the piano, playing all the music that he could find in the house, and making up a strange, formless music of his own when there was nothing else to play. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z The Starting-point.—Spencer began as far back as his scientific imagination could take him—with "formless diffused matter." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z He must make me dimly perceive 'the fragments of forgotten peoples,' with their superstitions, their formless fears, their vague desires. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z X-ray studies now show they are built from "bricks" of the crystal calcite, with a "mortar" of formless lime. Sea urchins inspire concrete idea 2012-02-15T01:57:53Z It was refreshing to see the handsome faces, erect carriage, and firm, elastic walk of these 193 Kurdish women after the tottering gait of the shrouded, formless bundles which pass for Persian women. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The long straight alleys appear to us insipid; the palisades cold and formless. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Think of the fearful nights—nights filled with phantoms, with flying, crawling monsters, with hissing serpents that slowly uncoiled, with vague and formless horrors, with burning and malicious eyes. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z It may be that the fabric of our civilization will crumbling fall to unmeaning chaos and to formless dust, where oblivion broods and even memory forgets. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z The initial condition of the Latin-American states was much more formless and their early difficulties were much more complex. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z Nothing happened, and when day broke we were in open russet country, among low, formless gravelly hills, with the striking range of rocky mountains which hems in Khuramabad in front, under a hazy sky. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The thing had no eyebrows, the hair had almost gone, and nose and cheeks were formless with corruption, while naked chest and arms were smeared with festering scars. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z These ideas have been abandoned, and now the Christian's God is the infinite, the incomprehensible, the formless, bodiless and passionless. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Let your flute be still and your soul float through Waves of sound formless as waves of the sea, For here your song lived and it wisely grew Before it was forced into melody. Poems 2012-01-19T03:00:23.447Z Griffin looked up at me with the old formless demand on my consideration. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z It was a very uninteresting march, through formless gravelly hills, with their herbage all eaten down, nothing remaining but tamarisk scrub and a coarse yellow salvia. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Just across the lane from the little gate a building loomed formless against a shadowy clump of trees. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z A small lump of wax, as yet quite formless, hangs down from the top of the hive. The Children's Life of the Bee 2012-01-10T03:00:15.617Z We adore the vigorous brutalities of Kipling and Masefield, we are interested in the formless feebleness of certain new poets; we scorn Gray and Landor, and overlook the poetry of Arnold. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z I was pierced through with a formless jealousy of the woman who had borne them in her body. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z She was mastering and subtly redefining the role that had once seemed formless to her, and becoming more acclimated to her new life. Michelle Obama?s Evolution as First Lady 2012-01-06T22:30:28Z The figure of the chauffeur appeared but a dark and formless shadow. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Yet each thing has its own peculiar beauty, not only every organism which expresses itself in the unity of an individual being, but also everything unorganised and formless, and even every manufactured article. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Lights from the moored boats shone here and there in the darkness; the thick network of riggings was scarcely discernible, and the hulks looked like formless black masses. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z It was like the stir in me of a formless, cold desire, not equal to the demand Life was about to make on it. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The prairie was formless and shadowy, but darkness had not quite closed in. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z And now the mind, in co-operation with the imagination, transforms this formless play of light and color into definite figures, moving groups, landscapes. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z Ahead dingy, formless slopes of water heaved themselves up slowly one after another in dreary succession. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Whether we can imagine the existence, for, example, of "force" without matter?—a shape which is formless?—a form visible to the eye, yet wholly immaterial? Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z What reasons made You call From formless void this earth I tread, When nine-and-ninety can be read Why nought should be at all? Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z He doesn't do to read over, and that exactly is the answer to those who idiotically proclaim the impunity of such formless shape, such flopping looseness and such a denial of composition, selection and style. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z And what control can there be over those formless schools? Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z And the dark formless shadow that had followed them also halted. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z All my life I had worshipped the formless Deity, but when I saw thee, Krishna became manifest before my eyes. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z That was Mr Baker's note; unpunctuated, formless, badly put together, ill-spelt, but alive and eloquent in spite of its obvious deficiencies. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Coralline structures and beautiful shells, fungi, leaves, and plants bearing coloured, flowerlike blooms spring into growth when a formless fragment of calcium salt is dropped into a chemical solution. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z I do not consider them entrancingly picturesque; they form the northern entrances to the Albaicin quarter, which is now a perplexing congeries of squalid houses, formless convents, and churches tottering to their fall. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Now my mind is a blank, a gulf filled with formless mist. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z How do you call that God formless who has the six qualities and is supremely blissful? Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z Let me pursue those ideas that, though they have but flitted across me vague and formless—have ever soared towards the sunlight. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z It is wonderful the amount of expression that horses have in their eyes, and how plainly one can read their dumb thoughts and formless emotions! Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z When they stopped the train and gathered him up, he was as dead as the hare, dissolved into mere formless tatters, and his women-folk were not allowed to see him afterwards. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z O softly, O tenderly, the heart now stirs With desires faint and formless; and, seeking not, I find Quiet thoughts that flash like azure kingfishers Across the luminous, tranquil mirror of the mind. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z The Supreme Being is full of all powers, and yet you describe Him as formless? Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z Who that ever, as a child, has felt that first chill contact with the mysterious enemy—who does not remember the formless horror it conjures up in the unprepared young mind? The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z From the fire, from beyond the fire, and from the blackness of the forest behind him crept a thing—shapeless, and formless, it was, of a substance vicious and slimy. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z I am afraid that the old commended itself by its venerableness, the solidity of its traditions, and the authority of its great names, while the new was still vague and formless. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z He knew that, while other nations held the past, and shared with his own the present, yet that to her belonged the still formless and unshaped future. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Many of such ugly, formless trees have been planted within the last generation, greatly to the injury of the garden landscape. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z And then a sudden, formless presentiment seized her. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The faces of Cass, Douglas, and Pierce, who are drawing along the monster, are obliterated—they are absolutely formless. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Little by little he made out a formless mound, which grew more distinct. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z And now jealousy—that heritage from both his parents—sprang up in the boy’s breast, jealousy no longer vague and formless. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z He cried out, a dreadful, formless sound, and covered his face with his hands. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Perhaps in the dim recesses of her mind she had some formless idea of learning this lyric. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Along the beaten path I pace, Where white rays mark my sentry’s track; In formless things I seem to trace The foeman’s form, with bended back— I think I see him crouching low! Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z There were broad, light patches where the water dazzled Grahame's eyes, and then belts of gloom in which the mangroves faded to a formless blur. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z And so the Orange Puppy sailed away into the viewless, formless, starry mystery of all romance. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z There is also the formless, unbreathed word of mood and dream and passion. Test Pilot 2011-09-21T02:00:37.513Z The first weeks of Freshman year were like a return to the formless impersonality of little boyhood. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Into Luke’s mind flashed suddenly a formless half prayer: “Don’t let ’em nag her now—make ’em talk other things!” Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z This visionary world of Blake’s, was minutely discriminated by him, however, and was no formless region of emasculating dreams. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z The nondescript trousers, which reached only to his ankles, terminated in huge, formless, machine-made shoes, the original color of which had entirely disappeared in favor of a dull whitish-green streaked with red. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z But the stones and pieces of cliff's ground them continually, rolling without mercy on the now formless masses, the bodies of horses and men. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z "The formless: the inchoate: the mass out of which the Potter makes new vessels, or moulds new shapes." The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z He wanted her with the formless need of the individual for a tried human friendship which in no circumstance could fail in understanding and sympathy. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z For the “formless god” is gradually taking form, and inclosing himself in a human body. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z I think I liked her better as a formless shadow after sundown. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There was a caf� in this sort of piazza—not a piazza at all, a formless gap. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The Lauda men clattered forward in a formless crowd along the highway, discussing the events of the night and praising Volodyovski to the skies; but he rode on thoughtful and silent. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z He stared out of the window at the gathering darkness, watching the black formless shapes flitting by like sinister shadows in the night, dimly illumined by the light of the passing train. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z My impression was that I was in a land of the sorrowful dead, some mid-strata of the spirit world, where, in this gray-green twilight, formless things in the distance moved to and fro. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Somewhere inside of him the carefully erected walls of use and custom were tumbling in strange ruins and out of the d�bris another structure, formless as yet, but obstinately sturdy, was rising. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z And suddenly there is Cagliari: a naked town rising steep, steep, golden-looking, piled naked to the sky from the plain at the head of the formless hollow bay. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The inevitable hung like a ghost over everything—bodiless, formless, but always there at the elbows of the gallant band that so long had held out against the foe. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z The rambling, formless habit of thinking is the bane of the amateur, and the type of MSS. resulting therefrom is the bane of the editor. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z But while the Dioscuri stand forth in Greek legend as clearly and fairly fashioned as two young knights of the Panathenaic procession, the Asvins show as bright and formless as melting wreaths of mist. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It was no longer formless; its approach had ceased to be slow. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z Slowly, slowly we creep along the formless shore. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z There in a flash it was melted to formless spirit, recombined to soul, and given the semblance of a thin reincarnation, fashioned, refashioned, coloured, recoloured. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The formless God may be strictly local; the "Spirit" is diffused. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Demeter is rather the fruitful soil regarded as a person than the elder Titanic formless earth personified as G�a. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The women's uniforms, with their formless, masculine cuts, were essentially "sized-down versions of men's jerseys," according to Nike. Women's Soccer Has Men Wanting to Buy Jerseys 2011-07-16T02:47:07Z And, deeper down, mighty shadows passed sluggishly to and fro, filling the gazers with wordless terror as the days crept wearily away and those formless apparitions gradually chose higher levels. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z O softly, O tenderly, the heart now stirs With desires faint and formless; and, seeking not, I find Quiet thoughts that flash like azure king-fishers Across the luminous tranquil mirror of the mind. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z Poor, ignorant child, shut up in a cavern of formless darkness,—what could she do? A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The primitive formless Zoana give place to the ideal statues of gold and ivory. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The brightness of the morning had faded before the bank of ashen-colored clouds that whirled up from the southeast with a suggestion of winter in their formless masses. The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z Let me pursue those ideas that, though they have but flitted across me vague and formless—have ever soared toward the sunlight. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z In that tense instant a new world was beginning, and though it was as formless as all beginnings, the unerringly dramatic and sensitive French paid the tribute of silence to its birth. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z There was about the woman something formless and intangible. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z There is no feeling in me but the feeling of my guilt; and this appears but like a dim, formless spirit, far before me. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Her least formless thoughts were of the evening to come, when she and the Lontaines were to dine with Summerlad in Beverly Hills. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z As he looked the gold faded out and the cloud broke up into formless wreaths of mist. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z She seated herself hesitatingly, scenting instinctively the approach of some formless danger. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Lying awake in darkness until darkness was dimly tempered by the formless dusk that long foreruns the dawn, he communed gravely with his troubled heart. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z This nothingness of space was the fallow ground of the universe and the formless shadow of suns and worlds. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Take Sales On Demand, it’s formless, not structured. Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing - Peter Lorenz, SAP AG 2011-06-08T12:53:00Z Where once there was a shapeless dough—the impersonal, formless people, "Holy Russia,"—now social classes consciously oppose each other, political parties have sprung into existence, each with its program and methods of struggle. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z Take, for example, one of the dwarfest Ageratums: what a silly little dumpy, formless, pincushion of a thing it is! Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z But she took away with her a depressing sense of having engaged in something formless and incoherent. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z This nothingness of space was the fallow ground of the universe and the formless shadow of suns and worlds. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z His Handy Andy is a formless book, and the fun of it grows tedious. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Instantly, the apprehension that had been so formless crystallized in definite fear of a possibility, which, in the following moment, was proven fact. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z As we two sat there, formless fears crept in and crouched in the shadowy places. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z It is stagnating, it remains as formless and prospectless as the mist outside. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z Various internal structures then follow suit “until at last formless abortions occur, incapable of living and reproducing themselves.” Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z For him it is the victory of order over chaos, of the present creation over the formless world of the past, and of fixed law over anarchy and confusion. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It was a formless impulse and throbbing stir far down below definite thought. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Not in order to depreciate the originality of Dante, but to prove in how vital a relation he stood toward his age, I have here insisted on those formless preludes to his work of art. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z One day as it bounced around the formless void, this nugget was discovered by the Great Spirit World-Father, who performed upon it a magic incantation. Riff: Five Ways of Looking at the Legend of Derek Jeter 2011-04-01T22:04:18Z But the latter notion is not really negative: it is that of a formless, chaotic, disorderly material. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z There was no room in the practical Assyrian mind for a formless divinity, with its infinite transformations and elusive shape. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z A hundred great confusing questions floated by in her mind, like clouds in a mist of rain—formless, vast, trailing deeper shadow beneath them. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z His fighting style is as formless as the prose of Gertrude Stein. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Instead, lets imagine an enterprising and creative chef of tomorrow who is bored of serving up formless, tasteless meat and wants to differentiate his cuisine. Dressing the meat of tomorrow 2011-03-23T16:15:00.267Z After the formless tumult of the wheels, the stony street resounds again to the age-old rhythm of marching men. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z There is nothing but a dark and formless deep, which can be imagined but not pictured or described. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Some such questions, vague, ever shadowy, formless, moved Rose, as she lay down to sleep that night. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z From that point of view, if from no other, she felt certain of Gaunt's displeasure; and a creeping terror, vague and formless, prevented her from resting. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Sooner or later, if he chose, he could escape into great, gray, formless India, beyond tents and padres and colonels. Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z The present, the brave solid present, is our own, to caress or misuse; but who dares say to the future, that formless form wrapped in uncertain gray, 'Thou art mine'? Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z There is no nebulosity, no pantheism, in the religion of Semitic Babylonia; the formless divinity and the animal worship of Egypt are alike unknown to it. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The gondola floated drearily on, a black formless spot in the moonlight. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Yet, with the lack of perception of her youth, she failed to connect her present formless dejection with the thought of his departure. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z O Power!... thou which interpenetratest all things and without which this glorious world were a blind and formless chaos. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z O'Malley's shadow disappeared, and George could see him as a formless oblong, pressed against the panel. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z At the most, Egyptian thought cannot rise further than the conception of “the god who has no form”—a confession in itself of inability to conceive of what is formless. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Of the other extreme, which is formless without being sincere, I need give no examples. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Behind the tall church windows fluttered something black, formless, like a mourning banner. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The one thing that weighed on him with a gloomy, though formless foreboding, was the inquest. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z There--this wall ornamented with black lead, Natalie remembers, and here--the large mass of formless shadow--is not that the Catholic church? Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z All the feelings which of old weighed down upon him like dull fog, formless and prisoned in dream like nightmares, now become clear statues, symbols in stone of his soul's experiences. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z With what gladsomeness he pushes the sleigh before him; within it sits, buried beneath furs, shawls, rugs, veils, what appears to be a formless mass, and yet!--he is proud to drive a beautiful woman. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z It was only within these last few hours that certain formless apprehensions had presented themselves to him. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Altogether it seemed to him the conscious popular movement in politics, both in and out of Parliament, was a mere formless and indeterminate aspiration. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z At the commencement of the work the earth was formless and void, or in a nebulous condition, and from this preëxisting mass the worlds were evolved. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z I was wearing pants, baggy and formless, but still looking nothing like any of the women in the area, who all wore abayas, black sheaths completely covering their bodies. Reporting While Female 2011-02-19T22:25:01Z He racked his brain to remember; the events of the evening were mere formless shadows in his dulled remembrance. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z From beginnings, so small and formless Legal education. that they still elude research, the Inns of Court had grown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Bosanquet further admits that any serious and even formless portrayal of life may be placed within Bernays's theory adding, "It may indeed be admitted to be a development inherent in Aristotle's theory." The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z And then there was always the stifling formless weight at her heart which she did not understand. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Over the lake the white cloud still hovered, but now it was only a formless, ever-shifting mass of vapour. Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.173Z "I—I seem—to disremember something," the colonel went on, forgetting this momentary, formless annoyance. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z As artists and thinkers they were both formless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z They whose taints are all evanished, independent of support, They who range in mind the Void, the unconditioned, formless Space, As the bird's path in the ether, so their tracks are hard to trace. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z They were both properties in singular mysteries of a formless character which were enacted in dark shrubberies on dark nights, just before bed-time. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z The hissing was renewed, but now it was accompanied by a scuffling sound, and I became aware that some formless thing was approaching me. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The sudden thought of Doris—a formless fear for her—made him leap to his feet. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z In the midst of Maseden’s strange and formless imaginings the ship’s course was changed a couple of points to the southward, and the Southern Cross was shut out of sight by the forecastle head. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The second five fetters of desire for form, desire for the formless, pride, vanity and ignorance. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z The mighty trunks groaned as they swayed up and down, and bent their lofty crests murmuring before the wind, whilst overhead chased in disordered flight the great, seething formless masses of grey cloud. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z It was a torn portion of wrapping paper, and bore a brief message; a formless scrawl traced with a blunt lead pencil. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z On all sides lay dirty straw, muddy rags, formless scraps of iron. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Yet it is no formless and incoherent cry, but an orderly recital of the ills of Germany. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z To escape English laws against gatherings and conventions of the Irish, O'Connell's associations had to be almost formless, and perpetually shifting in manner and in name. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z It saves the trouble and delay of subdivision of a formless metal. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z A formless shape blotted the square of less dense gloom, and for a time there was silence. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The young moon was a formless blotch now in the fouled sky. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The language, oscillating before her time between French and German, formless, corrupt and invertebrate, took shape and comeliness, which none of the male pedants could give it, from the impassioned hands of a woman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Everywhere around him in his childhood and youth these great but formless evolutionary ideas were brewing and fermenting. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z She rocked the child gently, and her thoughts went on after the prayer in a kind of formless argument. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Near the end of a formless answer, she came up with this bottom line: As a senator, she would like “a detailed briefing on what exactly the goals and strategies are in Afghanistan.” Letter From Washington: The Afghanistan Debate Nobody Wants to Have 2010-10-10T15:20:00Z Afterward, I was introduced to Callender, PharmaJet's founder -- bangs curled over her forehead, a formless Eileen Fisher jacket around her thin shoulders, a soft voice and softer manner -- and I was surprised. PharmaJet Finally Gets Unstuck 2010-10-01T16:00:00Z Craft Farms was a pioneer in the local golf scene, opening the first of its two Arnold Palmer-designed courses on a formless turf farm in 1987. Southern Alabama: The Real Deal 2010-08-09T04:00:00Z But this was not a traditional, formless "brainstorming" session. How To Create The Future 2010-04-08T22:00:00Z The Tea Party movement also, while providing venues for comments like those of Mr. Tancredo, is too young and essentially formless to qualify in any definite way for the Hofstadterian label. Letter from America: An Old Essay Used to Explain a New Movement 2010-03-10T12:30:00Z The "perfect asylum" is Brahman, formless or possessing form. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy As he watched the girl's receding car he resolved anew to conquer that formless enemy of sand and to reclaim for her her lost kingdom in Kansas. The Reclaimers The greatest care is needed at the earlier stages of re-heating to prevent the glass from collapsing into a formless and unworkable mass. The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students The creature that lives in one of these shells is only like a drop of formless jelly, and yet around itself it forms a complex shell of surprising beauty. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight While all visible things are made from It, yet this Substance, in its first formless condition is in and through all the visible forms that It has made. The Science of Being Well But he wore once more the saffron robe in the place of his formless overcoat. The Wonderful Visit For the oak-grove stood a lone outpost of greenness defending a more or less fertile countryside from a formless, senseless monster beyond it. The Reclaimers It is a marvellous spectacle to see a formless fragment of calcium salt grow into a shell, a madrepore, or a fungus, and this as the result of a simple physical force. The Mechanism of Life "The enormous length must make it formless," other critics have decided. Sinister Street, vol. 2 At first there was only a formless nucleus, which soon began to undergo transformation. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico Most Lichens are flat expansions of grayish hue; some of them foliaceous in texture, but never of bright green color; more are crustaceous; some are wholly pulverulent and nearly formless. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools For what do these shadowy figures stand, looming out of formless mist and chaos, and bestowing their names as imperishable memorials?—Scotia, A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland To that boy, all life except the hard realities of a pioneer people had been an untried thing of formless dream tissue. The Tempering In other words, I was actuated by a formless emotion called Princeton spirit. The Guarded Heights The prayer was formless and unspoken, yet it was answered. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 The latter had been vague as to how formless matter differentiates itself into the world of objects. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy She had argued love to be but the shadow cast by ourselves, and at that moment her soul's lamp lighted only conceptions that were blurred, formless, and grotesque. Love's Usuries At first the outline of the great mountain, twelve thousand feet in height, presented a dull cloudy mass, formless and indistinct. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa He had used them during his free time for the reading of novels, and latterly, he remembered, for formless dreams of Sylvia's beauty. The Guarded Heights Menace, dark and formless, seemed to waver like an evil shadow on the dreary walls of Dynehurst. Shadows of Flames A Novel The scale has formless matter at the bottom and matterless form at the top. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The formless, agonized cry of a woman arose and seemed to set in violent motion the atmosphere of this tragic chamber. The Gray Mask In these spaces there were things, some formless, others half-formed, that got between consciousness and interfered with the search. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Creative spirit, as of old Move on the formless void! Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion All the stories of ghostly crews that he had ever heard flashed into the skipper's mind, and, as the formless figures silently approached him, his face was bathed in a cold perspiration. Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 At the bottom of the scale will be absolutely formless matter, at the top, absolutely matterless form. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy His own seemed so huge and formless, with its mountainous purple veins, its coarse black hair, like forests, and the spatulate nails—clumsy, broken, yellow where hers were pink ... hastily his hand sought his pocket. Thirty When he nearly succeeded, the things above, the things half-formed and formless that were waiting there, pushed him back. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident There was a short cheer, then a long wordless, formless burst of triumph swelling out from a hundred throats. Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 He saw— "An earth—formless and void; A vaporous abyss—dark at its very surface; A universal ocean—the breath of God hovering over it." The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Inorganic matter is the nearest existent thing to absolutely formless matter, which, of course, does not exist. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy I hesitated a moment, and I think a wordless, formless prayer for help ascended to heaven. Windyridge A cataract of formless actions was thundering through her mind; the dam of indifference had been burst by mere weight of rhetoric, that powerful dam proof against the tampering of logic. Carnival On stooping down to examine the head, they found it elongated into a hideous, formless shape, and not being able to contain their surprise, they questioned as to why and how it all came about. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa It was "unshaped and empty," formless and uninhabited. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Hence matter as it is in itself, before the image of the Ideas is stamped upon it, must be absolutely without quality, featureless, formless. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Ordinary speech is formless, and its variety is like the variety which separates bad prose from the regulated speech of Milton, or anything that is formless and void from anything that has form and beauty. Ideas of Good and Evil He felt fifty years old as he walked down the steps and turned towards Canal Street to the door he had fastened four hours before on his formless visions. Fairfax and His Pride Bellingham screamed, and grabbed at it; but Smith pushed him back and stood over it until it was reduced to a formless grey ash. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen It can not be a general term for the whole six days, since these are separated from it by that chaotic or formless state to which we are next introduced. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The existent universe is a scale of being lying between the two extremes of formless matter and matterless form. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Before he was fully alive to it, his dream Eden was gone, and he was back in that formless void in which he had found himself. The Sphere of Sleep "Don't make anything, Bella, until I tell you to," commanded her teacher, and glanced over her page where she had covered the paper with her big formless handwriting, "Dramatiss personi, first act." Fairfax and His Pride Then the coal, consumed by its own power, fell together in a formless heap and the picture vanished. The Heart of a Woman Something formless and faintly radiant hovered indescribably in space. Shock Treatment It is rather a formless, indefinite, and absolutely featureless matter in general. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It was a vast and formless place with no distinguishable feature or color, but it was curiously sentient, pulsing with awesome possibilities. The Sphere of Sleep The uneasy sense of trouble which always stirred within him when he thought of his second daughter was rising to the surface now like a veiled, formless shape. Anne Inside these structures and between and around them there scuttled formless blobs of matter, one of which Roger brought up into his vessel by means of a tractor. Triplanetary Walls crumbled into formless heaps resembling the dunes. Shock Treatment The formless matter of Anaximander is, philosophically, an advance on this, showing the operation of thought and abstraction. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy And then, taking shape from the formless jumble of thoughts in his subconscious, a dream-world began to grow. The Sphere of Sleep The formless dread which accompanied Anne began now to assume definite outline and draw nearer. Anne There lay a vast something, formless and indefinite even to his sub-etheral vision; a something into which the viscid stream of transformed metal plunged. Triplanetary As remarked in a previous chapter, a conviction is the egg from which the vision comes; but the egg is only dead and formless matter until it is brooded over and warmed into life. The Making of a Country Parish Thus the Hindus speak of Brahman as formless, immutable, imperishable, unmoved, uncreated. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Christian faith is not a formless impulse; it is self-surrender to a corporate life ruled on a definite model of religious and moral teaching. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition Gradually his eyes became more and more accustomed to the absence of light worthy of the name, and he began to identify objects as something more than formless shadows. Twelve Times Zero The fleet, abandoning its attack upon the planetoid, swung its cone around, to bring the flame-erupting axis to bear upon the formless something dimly perceptible to the ultra-vision of Samms' observers. Triplanetary She sat by herself in the far corner, a formless, shrunken creature in deep black. Rich Living As formless matter is not an existent thing, nor is matterless form. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy By the time it was over the yacht its shape had changed, and it passed away to leeward formless, a mere rag of yellowish vapour. A Marriage at Sea Like most institutions, monasticism began in a formless, undirected enthusiasm. Women of Early Christianity Nothing is so overwhelming as a formless faith. Toilers of the Sea Instruction in these particular chapters, then, and rich diversion elsewhere, await the reader of this most gossipy, formless, and uncritical volume. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The cold, formless, wavering dusk of dawn in time lent it a sickly hue of gray together with a seeming more substantial. The Destroying Angel In the final desperate struggle, the old man was wounded so sternly that, when he had thrown into the formless chaos, instinct with Tamanous, his last propitiatory offering, he sank and became insensible. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making In the beginning, that circuit was a formless matrix and only faintly resembled your nervous system. Tangle Hold Gradually, the immense black cloud was beginning to drift away, dispersing into a formless blob. The Variable Man All surrounding space seemed filled with snarling, formless monsters, cautiously advancing and making ready to spring at me. Eleven Possible Cases But in the dark and formless alarm that possessed him, he did not stop to choose between the ways. The Destroying Angel It changed from a formless cluster of log shacks to a small city of sawed lumber and paint. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure All that went before was either the vague, formless, unsymmetrical production of popular mood and fancy, or the dry formula-work of musical pedants. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. It sounds absurd," continued Victor, "to talk of 'a formless form,' but I can find no other word to express the hideous something that I saw. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors He includes cold and dry, with formless and inert! The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors The early Christians had naturally preferred the formless marriage of the Roman law as being free from all taint of pagan idolatry; and the ecclesiastical authorities recognized concubinage also. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Sooner or later it will have dissolved into the 'formless mist' of protyle and 'the hour hand of eternity will have completed one revolution.' Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" But, of course, these two works were never written, and there remain to us only some remnants of numerous fragmentary and formless manuscripts, originating in the period of 1863-73. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory What reasons made you call From formless void this earth we tread, When nine-and-ninety can be read Why nought should be at all? The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The longings of the spirit are always formless, vaguely worded, a little shamefaced. Ancestors A Novel They glared at the hostile people, contracting their mouths as if with desire to bite and some of them restlessly moved their right arms which terminated in mere formless stumps. Sónnica Chaos, “the formless void of primordial matter,” is personified by Milton here and, much more conspicuously, in Par. Minor Poems by Milton The pack of trailmen gave a long formless wail, and then they were gathering, flying, retreating into the shadows. The Planet Savers How could this hard and formless thing worm itself into Maroussya's very soul, and make the ruddy glow disappear from her cheeks and the brilliancy from her eyes? Contemporary Russian Novelists It looked like a landscape upon which the sun had set for ever, smitten with death—or not yet born into the solar system; some terrible formless menacing globe on the edge of the Universe. Ancestors A Novel The arms of the unloved girl close about the formless air and more real than her loneliness and her sorrow is the imagined embrace, the awaited warm, close pressure of the hands, the fancied gaze. The Kempton-Wace Letters And now it was not his inexplicable panic of disaffection toward the earth as God had made it, but a pageant of darkness where formless terrors moved, all hostile to the woman. Old Crow Civil society became a classified organism instead of a formless combination of atoms, and the feudal system gradually arose. The History of Freedom A veritable ghost stood just within the wood, seven feet tall, stretching out a rattling bone of an arm and glowing from shapeless head to formless foot with pale gleaming garments of bluish white. Old Plymouth Trails The mass of mountains in Marin County looked black and formless, but above them rose the granite crest of Tamalpais, like an angular lifted shoulder. Ancestors A Novel One of the boys had curiously poked at it with his stick, bringing it nearer to the shore, when it appeared to be a heavy, almost formless, mass sewn up in a rough sack. The House by the Lock He stood where she left him, and she went to the low couch and set the baby down there, and put into his hand a formless doll she wanted him to love. Old Crow It resolved itself into a formless crowd, that still stood stubbornly there, but could not get one step farther. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw Said the Lord God, "Build a house, Cleave its treasure from the earth, With the jarring powers of hell Strive with formless might and mirth, Tribes and war-men, build it well." Poems Monera—formless little lumps of mucus matter supposed to be originated by spontaneous generation. The Church Handy Dictionary All this time Anethe lay dumb, not daring to move or breathe, roused from the deep sleep of youth and health by this nameless, formless terror. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 It was not good for little girls to be wrestling forever with things formless and dark. Old Crow Standing there, head back searching the sky, she managed to be beautiful even in the formless Pyrran coverall. The Ethical Engineer At the saying, a chill of fear fell on Donald, a fear formless at the first; then, swiftly, taking malignant, fatal shape. The Wilderness Trail Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanhood. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The chine of the tall hill, our stumbling-block, fell back and was lost, and we swept forward into formless shadow. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) As she bent over him and dried his smooth soft flesh, the passion of motherhood rose in her and she forgot he was "not right," and sang a low, formless song. Old Crow Matter, then, mere formless, chaotic matter, would be the first result of creative activity. The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science Certain formless dreams about life began to haunt her mind—vague desires of warmth and color and emotion. Clark's Field With him and his contemporaries the long, formless narrations of the trouv�res give place to complicated and exacting kinds of verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But fear, as of formless bugaboos in the dark, burned in her heart at the idea of his influence perhaps being able, creepily, stealthily, to convert Gerald. Aurora the Magnificent It was something in the back of his mind, very dark and formless as yet, but it was, he told himself again, something that had to be done. Old Crow It is a relief to behold amidst the formless cacophony of modern poetry such a regular, old-fashioned specimen of the octosyllabic couplet. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Instead of comparing with a mammal at the top of the organic scale, it is like a formless, undifferentiated protozoon at the bottom. The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition His works bizarre though they be, formless as they often are, have in them a force of expression and a dramatic accent of which no one can deny the intensity. Music: An Art and a Language Looked at too closely it may seem to be that—a formless web of individual hates and loves; but detach oneself but a little, and the broader forms appear. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism In the instinct to talk to him, that new impulse born out of the first human companionship she had ever had, she felt strange troubles within her mind, an anguish of desire, formless and untrained. Old Crow It was a formless vista of Nothingness, yet it seemed a pregnant Nothingness. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Would ye all be as I am; and know neither evil nor good; neither life; neither death; Or mix with the void and the formless till all were as one and the same? Collected Poems Volume One Not alligators or monkeys, such as the conventional drunk is supposed to see, but Things, faceless formless Things who brushed against me and leered at me out of the corners. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The drapery of the dress changed outline; the tints of the complexion dissolved, and were formless. Shirley The land lay in a low, formless mass on the left. Wild Oranges |
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