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Recent Examples of formless With intentionally provocative lyrics, the song takes profane aim at the hypocrisy of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives, who refuse to respect trans people’s personhood all while applying gender individualism to an ostensibly formless, all-encompassing God. Abby Monteil, Them, 24 Mar. 2025 Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form. Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 What do these formless smudges on the page mean? Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025 The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others. Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for formless
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Adjective
  • Creating the technology for revolutionaries operating in an amorphous present, such as the scanner device, was another fascinating challenge.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • It was filled with a silicon-carbide pre-ceramic polymer and heat-treated to form amorphous silicon carbide.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Both novels take on the spiritual hollowness that can accompany a life built on material aspirations.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The spiritual experience here, these days, happens when Joyce clocks in.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Pear—Emphasize the waist and upper body; skip shapeless dresses or long jackets.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The book is endlessly recursive, as shapeless as water.
    Nadja Spiegelman, New York Times, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.
    Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg dropped a bombshell on Democrats last week, one lost in the chaotic news cycle following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
    Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Surveillance video obtained by Fox News shows the chaotic moments when ICE agents took cover and protected detainees as gunfire rained down on them from outside a Dallas facility Wednesday morning.
    Peter D'Abrosca , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The fantastic is used to sketch out familiar story lines, but the metaphysical premise remains as vague as the dramatic stakes in the lives of the characters.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This time, Scott had a less metaphysical explanation for his torment.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Austen’s image expresses energy at odds with its unformed context.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The serious implication of it in the context of a Western, regarding the frontier as a place where state power is unformed, loose, and dubious, remains anecdotal and undeveloped.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
    Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023

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