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formless

[fawrm-lis] / ˈfɔrm lɪs /


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There’s a wicked irony in micromanaging your entire life on Earth only to croak and have your soul potentially jettisoned to some formless state of being, entirely unknown to mere mortals.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2025

The arias and duets, which are almost always slowly paced and formless, lack that visceral, theatrical punch and do not musically distinguish one character from another.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2025

It’s like this formless, invisible gas that’s going to find you wherever you are, and so escaping it is pretty futile.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2025

The defining complaint about the sacked Dutchman was that after two-and-a-bit seasons the football was still formless and the tactical direction indecipherable.

From BBC Nov. 1, 2024

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.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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