To have have as At Crystal Palace, Mata helped knit a
shapeless system together Ciaran Kelly
Don't be fooled by the glut of long,
shapeless tops in every street window.
He knows precisely why we are shaggy and
shapeless in places, and where the aching need for nurture lies.
TIE-WAIST COAT This new twist on the classic over-coat flatters your figure (no
shapeless silhouettes here) while the big buttons and pockets and interest.
Childhood has in some serious way been stripped of its wonderful aimlessness, of
shapeless, formless, and seemingly endless days and nights spent whiling away the time doing nothing that will help you get a Rhodes Scholarship or first-round venture capital for a start-up.
VATICAN CITY -- The embryo is a "full and complete" human being even though it is "
shapeless," Pope Benedict XVI said Dec.
The camera captures scenes of apparently insuperable medieval ignorance and destitution: ancient, disintegrating minarets; dejected, impoverished children; turban-clad village elders prostrating themselves in daily prayers toward Mecca; and everywhere, anonymous women in burqas, their faceless, nearly
shapeless forms somehow conveying timid anxiety.
The results were boring, and little more could be said for the two promising Italian youngsters from the Paris Opera Ballet, Eleonora Abbagnato and Alessio Carbone, performing first another Petit bit, this time from L'Arlesienne, and later appearing in a modernist, and
shapeless, Mauro Bigonzetti duet, Kazimir's Colours (which presumably comes from a full-length ballet).
Sometimes she wears a
shapeless smock and behaves like a polite child; other times she is bare breasted, sirenlike, and uncontrollable.
As social critic Theodore Roszak states in The Cult of Information, "An excess of information may actually crowd out ideas, leaving the mind (young minds especially) distracted by sterile, disconnected facts, lost among the
shapeless heaps of data."
If overgrown or
shapeless, cut hard back into shape and they will recover to produce a better hedge in a year or two.
while he lived there would be no forgotten man." Jackson predicted that long into the future, "The figure of Roosevelt will stand "like a sharply cut rock in the midst of a
shapeless sea."' That Man, after languishing in a closet for so many years, is a unique historical find and a ringing affirmation of that prediction.
'Who, when he first saw the sand and ashes by a casual intenseness of heat melted into metalline form, rugged with excrescences and clouded with impurities, would have imagined that in this
shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life as would, in time, constitute a great part of the happiness of the world?' Dr Johnson, the English eighteenth-century savant, was remarkably perceptive about the nature of glass that, as he pointed out, is a 'body at once in a high degree solid and transparent; which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind'.
One criterion we can use to assess large books like this is whether the chapters stand alone as independent units or function as integral parts of the whole, and often enough we are glad if we find that they stand alone, so that we can select the ones we want to read, even though their sum total is an aimless or
shapeless book.
Amis may be forgiven for writing near the book's end, "My life, it seems to me, is ridiculously
shapeless. I know what makes a good narrative, and lives don't have much of that." Ridiculously
shapeless?
