shagginess

Seeing the work of her architect Pierpaolo Martiradonna and his team, what struck Leigh was the rich fullness: the shagginess of the thatch, the forest effect of the wood poles.

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.”

It dawns on me that he’s looking far more pulled together than the rest of us at this point — he’s lost that coronavirus shagginess.

The energy in the virtual room picked up when Fallon joined around noon; he was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt and his once orderly coif was drifting noticeably into shagginess.

That should still leave room for shagginess, the instinct to wander through obscure back alleys of imagination regardless of their superficial relevance.