| 单词 | shapelessness |
| 例句 | And, after that, the uncared-for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She can’t stop thinking about her ex-husband, who died from a drug overdose, or the shapelessness of her own life. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls’: surviving suffering in Uganda 2014-03-26T19:50:24Z Hymnlike at the outset, resting on a slow drift of chords, it soon unraveled into shapelessness, with Mr. Stanko briefly grasping at abstractions, unsupported by his band. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z Shape keeps emerging from shapelessness, and it’s hard to say how. Review: This Sublime New Dance Work Embraces Wonder 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z They might write experimental essays or memoirs; champion shagginess and shapelessness; pronounce, as Lockwood did in a recent interview, that the internet has anointed “the fragmentary and the autofictional … the modes of the times.” Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z A poet before he was a playwright, Wilson more than made up for an abiding dramatic shapelessness with an overwhelming joy in letting rip with language. Review: A British and an American Revival Intoxicate, for Different Reasons 2010-06-15T14:53:00Z Twenty feet inside the front door is a Sacco, the world’s first beanbag chair and one of the few beanbags to be beautiful in its shapelessness. Shopping Scandinavian design in Stockholm like a local — coffee breaks included 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z That it can seem that just about any artist from the last three decades could have been included testifies either to Warhol’s influence or the show’s shapelessness. Art Review: ‘Regarding Warhol’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-09-13T21:37:57Z Little happens, but I’ve always found the openness, the near shapelessness of Li’s work to be part of its beauty. In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Do their games represent the dangers of idleness and ideological shapelessness, or do the women personify a punklike liberation? ‘Daisies,’ From the Czech Director Vera Chytilova, at BAM 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z To say that the TV show is a letdown would be too kind to the film, whose charm was outweighed by its shapelessness. Television Review: ?Napoleon Dynamite,? Animated Series on Fox - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z In autofiction, bewilderment and shapelessness tend to be part of the point, as the form mimics the myopia of lived experience and the confines of our solitary consciousnesses. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z That “Heat” is plotted as tightly as a Swiss watch makes the shapelessness of this follow-up all the harder to forgive. Review | Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ gets a sequel — in novel form 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z And they suggest that some solace may be found in creating a story from uncertainty, in finding shape in shapelessness, in dwelling within the contours of all we don’t know. Perspective | The pandemic has given us a bad case of narrative vertigo. Literature can help. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The early 20th-century dressmaker and costumer Paul Poiret made kimono coats, controversial for their shapelessness, for wealthy bohemians, and couturiers in the 1920s were intrigued with the potential of draped fabrics and looser silhouettes. How Japonisme Forever Changed the Course of Western Design 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z “You need content, but you need shape. You don’t want shapelessness. Episodic fragmentary buzz bits of public presentation — that’s not leadership.” What Jerry Brown Could Teach Joe Biden 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The worst thing was not the shapelessness – although that is an increasing problem. Manchester United lack leadership and transfer PR fixes won't change that 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The former San Francisco 49ers coach and former Michigan star quarterback is as renowned for his intensity as he is for the shapelessness of his dad-bod pants. Nike’s Swoosh Meets Jim Harbaugh’s Khakis 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The pattern, beautifully distinct at first, was soon caught in a current from an open window, and eddied into shapelessness. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z He has lived to see the church on the defensive—to hear faith asking for facts—and to see the shot and shell of science batter into shapelessness the fortresses of superstition. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Suppose that he allowed the winds to destroy cities and to crush to shapelessness thousands of men and women, and allowed the lightnings to strike the life out of mothers and babes. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The latter was beginning to emerge from his newborn shapelessness. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Brown Bull led the charge straight on and over the body of the dying outcast, trampling it into dreadful shapelessness. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z My clothes are lacking in style, and my boots have an unconquerable tendency to shapelessness. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z To tell the truth, the corset proved utterly impotent against the baggy shapelessness of the Povodye garment. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z It must not be forgotten, however, that this lack of prejudices is based not on political understanding, but on political barbarism, on social shapelessness, primitiveness, and lack of character. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z He developed its inherent powers in ways undreamed of, but he never broke the mould or strayed away into shapelessness or mere realism. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Dead bodies lay about in every shape and shapelessness of death. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z But for all its shapelessness, the shoe was very small. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z His muscles turned into pulp, his chest became hollow, his arms and legs were mere nerveless attachments, and his whole body assumed the shapelessness of a sack of potatoes. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z There was a distention of eyeballs and a pulpy shapelessness to her body which gave the impression of advanced physical deterioration—that peculiar kind of breaking down, often noticeable among psychics of long practice. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z But this very shapelessness added to her undoubted amiability; her face was fat and smiling, her hair white and untidy, and she maintained her dignity in spite of her figure. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Their bodies or their fragments lay in every shape and shapelessness of death, in puddles of broken trenches or on the edge of deep ponds in shell-craters. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Between the address of the Canon and the shapelessness of her flannel petticoat, life was very difficult to understand just then. The Youngest Girl in the School It was ugly—ugly in its pink shapelessness, ugly in its slimy half-sentient movements, in its very purposefulness. Contamination Crew It was of that peculiar bulky shapelessness which betokens a very small infant. Stories of the Foot-hills Brun's flat stared at them with its hideous red brick and ugly shapelessness. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary He could not blot out the image of the thin, baby face with the pale, open eyes, the white face drawn and thin, hideous in its starved, dead shapelessness. Orientations Any garment must fall readily into shapelessness and give up trying to fit well on that unheeding figure. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 And Millicent, under the new Swiss governess, had acquired, it seemed quite suddenly, a glib colloquial French that somehow reconciled one to the extreme thinness and shapelessness of her legs. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Lysander fell back on the devil with restful inconsistency, and fanned himself with his straw hat, curled by much similar usage into fantastic shapelessness. Stories of the Foot-hills For answer, she flattened her finely-modeled nose into shapelessness against the cold pane. Seven Keys to Baldpate But the outer shapelessness concealed the inner symmetry. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character It reached for the black opening in the great shell, found it, and the whole loathsome shapelessness poured itself up and through the hole. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 For an infinitesimal time, Makun’s face reflected horrified comprehension before it melted into shapelessness. The Weakling But it never falls into the mere shapelessness which was so common with his immediate and younger contemporaries. A History of Elizabethan Literature There was no horizon; the bluffs a few miles off had faded into a hazy shapelessness. Prescott of Saskatchewan Mayo turned to leave, afraid of his own desperate desire to beat that sneering mouth into shapelessness. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Her hair was cropped short, and she seemed to sag all over, as though her body were trying to conform to the shapelessness of the dress instead of the reverse. But, I Don't Think Battered and crumbled almost to shapelessness, it rose before us like some vast monster in the centre of the harbor. The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative The shapelessness, the incoherence, the necessity for endless annotation and patching together, which mar so many even of the finest Elizabethan plays, have no place in Beaumont and Fletcher. A History of Elizabethan Literature The weather proved to be no deterrent to a community hungry for entertainment, and they swarmed from all directions, bundled to shapelessness, like Esquimaux headed for a central igloo. The Fighting Shepherdess He was broken and stamped p. 36 into hideous shapelessness and something had torn off his arms. Space Prison A smock covered her into shapelessness, and her spectacular hair was bound up in a kerchief, but she still looked good. Security She was still muscular in her age and shapelessness. Prairie Folks The two men lit cigars and waited; Shelby's was gnawed to shapelessness. The Henchman "As annihilation, the white shapelessness of revolting terror, passes by each unsouled mask of a man, a tear gushes from the crumbled eye, as a corpse bleeds when its murderer approaches." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Within two minutes it would be over, the last child would have been found among the shattered shelters and trampled into lifeless shapelessness in the bloody ground. Space Prison You can try to cast him in a mould, but he resumes his normal shapelessness the moment the mould is removed. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital The gunman sank into shapelessness on the floor as the chair hurtled through the air straight at Enright's head. The Strange Case of Cavendish The Earth, O lord, was soon covered with human beings that were crushed into shapelessness or trodden down by elephants and steeds and with others that roared in great affliction. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The struggle, however, ended suddenly, and hailing a man who plodded behind another team, Winston picked up his broad hat, which was trampled into shapelessness, and turned towards the wagon. Winston of the Prairie And this is at least partly due to the strange drab shapelessness of his style, which never takes on any brilliant colour, or quaint individual form. The English Novel The shapelessness of the lathy form, the shock of coarse black hair surmounting the large head, the retreating forehead—these were not apparent where we stood. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him To these must be added a certain mental shapelessness, which can expand or contract without reference to reason or record—a potential infinity of excuses. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index The cigarette between Mordaunt's fingers slowly doubled and crumpled into shapelessness, but the steely eyes never altered. The Rocks of Valpre Evil is imperfection, unripeness, shapelessness, weakness in, or opposition to, the creative spirit. Essays Æsthetical If he could have known that with her own eyes she had seen the chestnut crush Cordova to shapelessness and almost to death, the mystery might have been cleared. Alcatraz But the incoherence and shapelessness of the greater part of her verse are fatal. Ponkapog Papers There was a quick tightening of the tentacle round my body until my bones felt as though they were being crushed into shapelessness; and as suddenly it loosened. Under the Andes His shoes were unblacked, and they were of an elderly shapelessness. Main Street Philip examined the foot and passed his hand slowly over the shapelessness of it. Of Human Bondage The green and red of their coats were all darkened in the dusk; and their likeness to human shapes slightly increased by their very shapelessness. The Innocence of Father Brown The bank itself was a broad, dumpy building with adobe walls, whose corners had been washed and rounded by time to shapelessness. Black Jack Your body's brave and straight — So shapely even that you can afford To trick it in fantastic shapelessness, Knowing that there's a clean-limbed man beneath Preposterous pantaloons and purple cats. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 "I only said," returned his uncle, "that their shapelessness adds to their horror." The Portent & Other Stories The dark blue winter uniforms were frayed and torn, the shoes worn into shapelessness; but the strong, swinging stride was the stride of the hardened soldier. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints The sun was high, and the queer shadow that followed Jurgen was huddled into shapelessness. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice It was all puffed and bubbled and blown about, here and there and everywhere, so that the form of the woman was lost in the frolic shapelessness of the cloud. Mary Marston Happily the art impulse itself, in this country of conflagrations, has a vitality which survives each generation of artists, and defies the flame that changes their labour to ashes or melts it to shapelessness. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust. In Ghostly Japan She was clad entirely in white, and looked very young and quite tall in the sweeping folds of a holoku of elaborate simplicity and apparent shapelessness. The Little Lady of the Big House Lady Cynthia rose to her feet and shook out the folds of her diaphanous gown, daring alike in its shapelessness and scantiness. The Evil Shepherd Wrapped about a scarcely visible collar was a broad black neckcloth of the antique fashion; his one shoe was cobbled into shapelessness. Thyrza There was nothing there ... only moonlight ... nothing ... yes, something on the floor ... some-thing light and lacy, crushed into shapelessness ... The Window-Gazer Children often amuse themselves by making little Buddhist images of mud, which melt into shapelessness, of course, if placed in water. In Ghostly Japan The ground had been churned up by our shells, and the trenches had been battered into shapelessness, strewn with broken wire and heaps of loose stones and fragments of steel. Now It Can Be Told I see its dim shapelessness going before the men of blood, and marshalling their way. Zanoni At least, one would argue that her body must be robust from her fashion of movement of it, though little could one divine the lines of it under the shapelessness of the furs. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Skulls of wild horses and deer, antlers and countless bones, all crushed into shapelessness, furnished indubitable proof that the carcasses had fallen from a great height. The Last of the Plainsmen Let us examine our find and look more closely into its shapelessness. The Life of the Spider A man must indeed be graciously endowed if his personal appearance can defy the disadvantage of cheap modern clothing worn into shapelessness. New Grub Street He fired, and the glass splintered into shapelessness. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories In this inexpressible ceremony the name of every dish went hurtling into the next, telescoped to shapelessness. Lin McLean |
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