shapelessness

Like the contemporary criticism of Olympia, for example, which jeered at Manet for his crude indecency, or that of War and Peace, which condescended to Tolstoy for the inept "shapelessness" of the novel, it now seems magnificently misguided.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

There was one thing that survived the "shapelessness".

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

His edges had been chipped, but the result had not, he thought, been character --- only shapelessness, like an exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art. --- from Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.

Jim Wormolds chipped edges 2010

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.

CHAPTER XV 2010

His edges had been chipped, but the result had not, he thought, been character --- only shapelessness, like an exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art. --- from Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.

Lance Mannion: 2010

Hanley Black surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of antediluvian, New-England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

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.

CHAPTER I 2010

Their window of perfection is indeed brief, a day or two at most, then a slow descent towards soft shapelessness.

Tender delights Nigel Slater 2010

He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke.

All Gold Cañon 2010

He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke.

All Gold Canon 2010