Moreover, this "formlessness" strategy shows up again in other areas. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Osborne: Sun Tzu and the Art of 11-Dimensional Chess] Reference
It is true that the formlessness which is almost nothing cannot have temporal change in it. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
It is true, that that formlessness which is almost nothing, cannot be subject to the alteration of times. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
Now I do not know what kind of formlessness there is in these mutations of these last and lowest creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Novelty, on the other hand, does not mean formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [NaNoWriMo: Analecta « The Graveyard] Reference
Englishness all crumbled out into formlessness and chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
The Napoleonic age had the terrific formlessness of chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
In the two works now published it approaches formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Autumn Star] Reference
It came to him as he drifted in the formlessness just before sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Mourn Not Your Dead] Reference
Abruptly the formlessness in his outercom screen coalesced into a face. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
I look at the swirls and eddies, its lambent formlessness, its almost-shape. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
He may make his theories fit too tight to accommodate the formlessness of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
And O how prettily she melts, from the inside out, crumpling into formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Yet it was not absolutely nothing; it was a certain formlessness without any shape. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Western culture is reduced to its most recent and superficial form or formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Inhabiting the Church: a Catholic response] Reference
They stared at each other, and saw their formlessness mirrored in each other's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
Romanticism at its worst dissolves into mere formlessness and inarticulate ecstacies. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Today, Booman recaps the conundrum Obama resolved with that Sun Tzu-like formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Osborne: Sun Tzu and the Art of 11-Dimensional Chess] Reference
The white mare was ghostly, almost insubstantial, in the formlessness of the Chaos Lands. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
It's unbelievably beautiful, a combination of form and formlessness, chaos and regularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of the Heavens] Reference
I never could put into words, but instantly recogized formlessness as so as it was explained. From Wordnik.com. [Jesuit On Liturgy] Reference
Thus that formlessness of which heaven and earth were made might be called "heaven and earth.". From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
It was pleasant standing there, staring at the formlessness from which all things eventually emerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Oberon]
Yea, neither is this very formlessness of the earth, invisible, and without form, numbered among the days. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
And what, among all parts of the world can be found nearer to an absolute formlessness, than earth and deep?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
For me, form and formlessness, just as emotion and intellect, are constantly engaged, and never taken for granted. From Wordnik.com. [Conceptual Poetry] Reference
Through the form of an awake human being, consciousness becomes conscious of itself as both formlessness and as all forms. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Heads and Grain] Reference
Now that the towers are gone the pin has been pulled out of the center of the design and it's fallen apart into formlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The World Trade Center site at dawn.] Reference
Some years ago, reformers replaced the older formalism and legalism with the formlessness decried by Mosebach in his book's title. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-08] Reference
But does not this precisely mean that it never ceases to be itself, in other words that its one form is an invincible formlessness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
For my part, I prefer not to analyze a spectacle so awash in formlessness and facetiousness, not to mention a frenzy of cesspool humor. From Wordnik.com. [Austin Powers Is Back With A Frenzy of Cesspool Humor] Reference
The dreams were as tortured as the man was twisted, and An'desha could hardly wait for them to fade into the formlessness of deep sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Widows and Orphans] Reference
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