ill-shapen

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Todd Kashdan: What You Don't Know About Creating a Happy, Meaningful Life 2009

This is a result, no doubt, of the "deliberate ferocity" of their "bad sewing," as Linda Nochlin points out in one of the best essays in the show's accompanying catalog — but also because that bad sewing is of a piece with the innocuous terry cloth and cotton jersey Bourgeois often uses and with her figures 'bulgy, vaguely ill-shapen contours.

Daring and Disturbing Schwartz, Sanford 2008

I noticed at the same time, that a singular change took place in the figure of the man, — as if it collapsed within his clothes, and they consequently became ill-shapen and ill-fitting.

Hunted Down 2007

First of all I set me down at the very outskirts of the woodland, and raised me a bower there, rude and ill-shapen.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

I noticed at the same time, that a singular change took place in the figure of the man, — as if it collapsed within his clothes, and they consequently became ill-shapen and ill-fitting.

Hunted Down 2007

She found him seated in his accustomed chair with no book open before him, no pen ready in his hand, no ill-shapen notes of blotted music lying before him as was usual, none of those hospital accounts with which he was so precise and yet so unmethodical: he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

The Warden 2004

I am not at all sure that the majority of the human race have not been ugly, and even among those “lords of their kind,” the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils, and dingy complexions are not startling exceptions.

Adam Bede 2004

Thus art first makes rude and ill-shapen figures and afterwards perfects everything with its proper form; and it was for this that the statuary Polycletus said, Then our work is most difficult, when the clay comes to be fashioned by the fingers.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Thus art first makes rude and ill-shapen figures and afterwards perfects everything with its proper form; and it was for this that the statuary Polycletus said, Then our work is most difficult, when the clay comes to be fashioned by the fingers.

Symposiacs 2004

Anywho, the girls want to go to South Padre, and while I'm sure its full of drunken revelry and the like, I think we could find a place for cheaper and that wouldnt require me to fit my ill-shapen body into a swimsuit.

happychelsea Diary Entry happychelsea 2003