Belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Our nature dim, like to an unlighted torch, sleeps in formless blank till the fire attain it; this life of life, this light to moon, and glory to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [I.4a] Reference
Finding form in the formless is another way of putting it. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
We passed before a picture which to my untutored eyes was formless, meaningless and ugly. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
(Although attempting a truly "formless" novel might be an interesting experiment in itself.). From Wordnik.com. [Narrative Strategies] Reference
"Those kind of formless masses there are all bait fish," he said, pointing to what looked like clouds on the screen. From Wordnik.com. [TOP STORIES - News 8] Reference
The Hebrew word is תהו or tohuw (strong's number h8414) which is the same word used in Genesis 1: 2 as 'formless'. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
After that she stayed a long time silent, swaying gently while her candle flickered, her head full of a kind of formless musing. From Wordnik.com. [Nocturne] Reference
But "free verse" adopts many other cadences of English prose besides this "formless" structure which goes with matter-of-fact statement. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
The concrete was heavy, sharp edged, ragged and formless. From Wordnik.com. [Fixing the RED Wagon] Reference
There's nothing there, just a formless, gray-black misery. From Wordnik.com. ['I Know I'll Get Through This'] Reference
It was formless, shapeless, a heaving mound of nauseous matter. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
It was almost formless, its outlines seeming to melt into the gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Some of Ligeti's pieces seemed formless, others mechanically precise. From Wordnik.com. [Composer Ligeti, a Kubrick Favorite, Has Died] Reference
Only to succumb back into a formless mass filled with unspeakable creatures. From Wordnik.com. [equilibrium] Reference
It was still there, immediately above her -- a formless stretch of dull white. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
At last, Barra turned from the litter of rock about the formless mass on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
Ugly rumours had got afloat, vague and formless, and soon to die out of general memory. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The sun was formless and purple in the vibrations of wrath that were emanating from Azuria. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The British Empire is yet a lump of clay unfashioned and formless on the wheel of the potter. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
The furtive suggestion of those shoeless feet struck her with horror -- formless, unreasoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
The impalpable, formless brown fog was about him Its acrid scent of burning was in his nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His surroundings were no longer dim and formless, rather everything grew inhumanly sharp and vivid. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Behind her present lively fear a second shadow was growing, more dim, more formless, more vast and dubious. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Senseless, insensate, formless, erratic, it only disgusted him with its sheer and unprofitable lawlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
Seen against that glowing background, it was but the silhouette of a crowd, vague, black, formless, mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Awareness drifted in formless inattention until a focal point, a mere nucleus of intellect, captured and held it. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
A soft hue or a pellucid note may be an intrinsic pleasure, though a formless one, and one expressive of no meaning at all. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
An awful pink velvet, ruffled sleeves and neckline looped with lace, its bell-shaped, formless fall past the hip: timelessly bad. From Wordnik.com. [For A Day] Reference
An endless dream of wanderings in thick pathless forests, an endless search for something lost: an eternity of vague formless dreams. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
It resulted years afterwards in 'Joseph's Coat,' which is, if I may say so, less inchoate and formless than its dead and buried original. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
There are girls as well whose price tag is up there — the Michelles and the Sarahs — whose dread is merely a dark, formless pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Perdition] Reference
Mr. FRERE-JONES: But it feels like these are all things on her mind and - I mean, not everybody can get away with a record this sort of loose and formless in places. From Wordnik.com. [Assisted Listen: Erykah Badu's 'New Amerykah'] Reference
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