The dress hung formlessly on her body. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Why depict it so formlessly — why not show what it really was?. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
Many of the dark clothes hang formlessly, drapily, like funeral shrouds. From Wordnik.com. [Brooklyn Gals��� Payday Plunge: $600 Black Eyelet Numbers] Reference
It flashed and swirled formlessly for a moment, and then its pink vapors opened like curtains. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
For a single instant the Ossaran's outline seemed to pulse and glow-and then his empty green robe crumpled formlessly to the floor!. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Of Dreams]
I set them down, hastily, formlessly, but just as they happened, and this gives me a record which I could not reproduce for any other story I ever wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. From Wordnik.com. [Are we a Christian Nation?] Reference
Cities of the eastern seaboard from Boston through New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to Washington have meandered formlessly, merging with one another, indiscriminately devouring a five hun, dred mile swath of landscape in their inexorable advance. From Wordnik.com. [Urbanism and the Canadian Promise] Reference
It is ostensibly the narrative of the adventures of a young Spaniard, but as a story it rambles on formlessly without approaching an end, and its real purpose is to serve as an utterly cynical indictment of mankind, the institutions of society, and accepted moral principles. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] Reference
It was the play of cognitions, of sensations, formlessly tending to the effect which can only be very clumsily interpreted in language. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
"I didn't hear as how she was expecting of any one," he added, with a glance at the boxes, formlessly visible on the cab, through the now thicker darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Marston] Reference
His thought ran formlessly upon her future, and upon what sort of being was already fated to waken her to those possibilities of intense suffering and joy which he imagined in her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
Mr. Peck's trousers were short and badly kneed, and his long coat hung formlessly from his shoulders; she involuntarily took a patronising tone toward him which was not habitual with her. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference
As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
He thought of the sum of money that was his own, and that he might offer to lend, or practically give, if the time came; and with his crude hopes and purposes formlessly exulting in his heart, he kept on listening with an unchanged countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference
A piece of old red brocade hung over the fireplace, covering the ugly mirror, and facing it a brown-rep fireside chair, coarse tan fishnet curtains, a pair of huge black-velvet floor cushions with orange-colored balls in each center, bespeaking a new art era which was dawning as colorfully and as formlessly as a pricked egg yolk. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
The thirsting eagerness with which they turned their open mouths toward each one as he began to speak, in the hope that he would express to themselves some one of the ideas formlessly astir in their own stolid minds, was pathetic testimony to the depth to which the iron of poverty, debt, judicial and governmental oppression had entered their souls. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke of Stockbridge] Reference
"Wrapped in the shadows of eternal solitude, in the impenetrable darkness of the thicket, impenetrable, immeasurable, unapproachable, formlessly extended. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words]
But if the advent of a universal (markup) language promises an infinite audience for every stray scrap of pubescent confession, where can today’s young exercise the prerogative that’s defined youth since the first Neolithic caveboy splashed his hunting fantasies onto a secret wall 32,000 years ago — the impulse, that is, to scrawl down unmediated transcripts of an inner life so earnestly self-involved and formlessly unripe that exposure of any kind would be humiliating?. From Wordnik.com. [Sontag on Sontag] Reference
He could not make anything more of the mystery as he walked at her side, and he went thinking -- formlessly, as people always think -- that with the child or with her mother he would have had a community of interest and feeling which he lacked with this splendid girlhood! he was both too young and too old for it; and then, while he answered this or that to Imogene's talk aptly enough, his mind went back to the time when this mystery was no mystery, or when he was contemporary with it, and if he did not understand it, at least accepted it as if it wore the most natural thing in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer] Reference
The left one was dark, and flickering formlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
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