Even the most skeptical apartment dweller can conquer "plotless" gardening thanks to McGee and Stuckey's manual. From Wordnik.com. [Omni Daily Crush: "McGee & Stuckey's The Bountiful Container"] Reference
It's true that, taken on its own, All Work is plotless. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Torrance's first novel finally published] Reference
Bits of it were good, but overall it is completely plotless. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Unlike The Illusionist, "Eisenheim the Illusionist" is nearly plotless. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
I love Laura as a character, but I was struck by how plotless the book is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
What they consider literature is often formless exercises in plotless writing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
But Jemorah, the protagonist by default in this plotless novel, is another story. From Wordnik.com. [Books By Portland Authors: Diana Abu-Jaber - Reading Local: Portland] Reference
Like most of our lives, Hadrian's — and so Mme. Yourcenar's novel — is plotless. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor] Reference
Review: A very brief, plotless story whose "war is bad" message is a little too obvious. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann] Reference
This was life, and unlike a movie, music did not accompany it's plotless plodding of time. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
That said, nobody is going to pay good money for your plotless, pointless flight of fancy. From Wordnik.com. [You Can Use Your Imagination] Reference
To end this inherently plotless and catch-uppy post with a giggle, I must quote the latest Viz. From Wordnik.com. [Points of Review] Reference
To make a long and plotless story mercifully shorter, we cut to what passes for the dénouement. From Wordnik.com. [Guess Who Hated This Film?] Reference
The transport discs, as drawn by Sprouse, were fantastic, but the rest of the series was plotless. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean optioned by the Hollywood Gang] Reference
You can see solo recitals or big company works, short plotless pieces or full-length story ballets. From Wordnik.com. [Great Leap Forward:] Reference
Mr. Oguike's work is plotless, but it has an emphatic mood, and the dancers look like they are having fun. From Wordnik.com. [Great Leap Forward:] Reference
My post is about the handling of that death within the story, which I maintain is ham-fisted and plotless. From Wordnik.com. [This is Not the Post You're Looking For and Other "Maelstrom" Thoughts] Reference
Since the early twentieth century small literary quarterlies have published hordes of utterly plotless tales. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Well, Anonymous, I did warn you it was a boring, plotless and self-indulgent post in the very first paragraph!. From Wordnik.com. [In Vino Veritas] Reference
Beyond the fact that it is ham-fisted and plotless, the episode hits every one of the 'fake TV death' buttons. From Wordnik.com. [This is Not the Post You're Looking For and Other "Maelstrom" Thoughts] Reference
The tales are numbered, almost all short-shorts in fact, the final entry is two words long, and mostly plotless. From Wordnik.com. [Brief note: The Devil's Larder] Reference
George Balanchine was, I would dare say, he was the inventor of the plotless ballet, which is an abstract ballet. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Legacy Celebrated In Dance] Reference
But he uses it to create mostly short, plotless works, with the body creating expressive shapes and implied feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Great Leap Forward:] Reference
Chapman's "A Guide to the Zoo" is a plotless catalog of some weird beasts modeled on, of all things, famous writers. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The story is completely plotless and in fact is in danger of degenerating into a string of non-sequiturs at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Interzone #216, the Mundane SF edition.] Reference
They hover somewhere between miniature stories (though most of them are ultimately plotless), parables, and parodies. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Robert Altman's fictionalized portrait of a dance company (in fact the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago) is all but plotless. From Wordnik.com. ['Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point] Reference
"Nirvana High" is essentially plotless--just a day in Barbara's life, and that life didn't manage to hold my interest. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Erotica, to me, includes plotless or "stroke" fiction which is sometimes termed pornography as well as literary erotica. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Perhaps "dispensed with it" is too extreme, for though Chekhov's work can certainly feel plotless, it is not necessarily so. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference
Anyway, I imagine it would probably be some 1000-page plotless novel, but I am afraid none are coming to mind at the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Links Galore!] Reference
It is easier to watch a plotless movie with great characters, than to watch a great plot with boring unbelievable characters. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction Writing: Flaw Your Character] Reference
So you don't want plotless wonders, and "The Thin Place" is one of those mesmerizing, mysterious books that does exactly that. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-On Books To Take You Up, Up And Away] Reference
His first, " Frost " 1963, was a bleak, almost plotless work that recorded the repetitive, paranoid conversation of a dying painter. From Wordnik.com. [Enfant Not So Terrible] Reference
When it moves away from Bob's professional life, A Scanner Darkly becomes an almost plotless study of the character's downward spiral. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
A life that is without it has somehow missed its mark: it is meaningless and plotless, "a string of casual episodes, like a bad tragedy.". From Wordnik.com. [Bubbles of the Foam] Reference
That is to say, it's a plotless story about ignoble, unhappy people doing contemptible things with little in the way of motive or excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
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