"The music was formless, expostulatory, meandering," Mr. Conrad later recalled.
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"They were formless, they had no place to run," he said.
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That fat, formless poem had won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
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"The water is a vast chaos, formless—a void," she said.
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Your grief is animal, formless, unhinged in the illogic of dreams.
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The endorsement notwithstanding, I found the stories plotless and, worse, formless.
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By comparison, Berthot's relatively formless woods are a hard subject to identify.
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Greenberg, by design, was seemingly formless—a character roaming, in a way.
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They are formless, eat sludge and sleep under eons of decayed dead.
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I couldn't bring myself to look at the formless heap beside her.
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"The form falls away, and the formless blossoms," Ms. Buck repeated softly.
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This is ideal mood music — sharp, discrete, tuneful, ambient but not formless.
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Or it could capture a near-formless sensation and loop it open-endedly.
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Gillian had adored and envied her, felt herself formless and dull by contrast.
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Certainly not Rubio, who went back to his default of bland, formless and derivative.
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I want to create an architecture of soul, a formless architecture, an invisible architecture.
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The tiny performances themselves are purposefully formless, usually conceived without any audience in mind.
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But what if wireless chargers didn't have to be formless slabs of plastic or metal?
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So what impact has this "formless mass" of LGBT people helped shape modern Western culture?
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This formless meat product doesn't have the complicated connective tissues of something like a steak.
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Lushly shot, it's a story of nameless, formless desire that drives men to their limits.
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I am so sick of watching people in sneakers, especially women in these terrible, formless shoes.
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For the first time the company made a mirrorless camera that wasn't just a formless rectangle.
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I mean it really hits him: He's entered by a formless phantasm with a baby's cry.
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Turn it just right, until the green becomes just a formless circle, and you have a bowl.
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After 25 minutes, the clay monolith had been reduced to a formless mass and the performance concluded.
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The resulting shows become soggy and formless, and the good bits get lost amid all the dross.
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Lovecraft's formless and alien pantheon of gods serve as a ready stand in for these existentially terrifying problems.
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There must be this black formless void before you work to create gold, before you can make anything.
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You can see it throughout history—devotional music has always had a formless or cyclical, mantra-esque feel.
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All of us begin as a relatively formless embryo, and from there the cells follow an elaborate program.
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A vast, formless abyss into which humanity launches its satellites and rovers in a boundless quest for knowledge.
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You can see it throughout history, devotional music has always had a formless or cyclical, mantra-esque feel.
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Then everything goes dark, and you are released from this formless time and space, and you lose consciousness.
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Their goals and values point them in the right direction, but they're stuck in a formless romantic anarchy.
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Her alleged relationship with Britney was a metaphor, a testament to her vampiric appetite for the lost and formless.
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It's formless and conversational, borrowing largely from Wet Hot American Summer and the collected works of comedy troupe Stella.
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Kenny: It also conforms with our theory of comedy, in the sense that I do believe it's formless, right?
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Then a door slams, and he hears footsteps on the stairs, at first distant, formless, with lulls between floors.
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" In a graduation speech, he declared, "I want to create an architecture of soul, a formless architecture, an invisible architecture.
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This is a formless, shapeless purgatory that works like the TARDIS, expanding to allow tens of millions of exhibitors inside.
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Some gale of bad news will blow in: an oil-price spike, a market panic or a generalised formless dread.
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Most striking is how "Future" and "Hndrxx" tell two different stories while feeling like part of the same formless narrative.
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Let me put it this way: By most standards, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is a formless, lifeless slog.
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But in Williams's hands, Jessica James becomes a diamond-sharp protagonist, and the only defining feature of an otherwise formless movie.
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Berlin — After years of Angela Merkel's formless centrism and the rise of the far right, is German conservatism making a comeback?
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Like on all other platforms, this first set of emoji are largely formless, outside of their eyes, mouth, and occasional accessory.
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And in order to describe its formless, playful sound, you need to invoke spaces that teeter on the edge of reality.
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A retail job can seem to stretch on into a bland, formless eternity, but love is still all in the timing.
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Everyone knows what the Trump show looks like at this point—grievance after formless grievance, with no policy agenda in sight.
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Kenny: Yeah, and again, back to the open, formless theory of comedy, it's like the process is what's most engaging about it.
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I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals.
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So that in that infinite potential of emptiness, the form falls away and the formless blossoms into this dance of the elements.
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The result is that Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates feels formless, and if you stick around for the credits, you'll realize why.
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But I loved the big payoff on Day 1, when all that formless chaos condensed and exploded in a boffo Big Bang moment.
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Sincere belief can order an otherwise formless succession of days, and it is meaningful days, collected together, that add up to a meaningful life.
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My dolphin friend, per Aros's instruction, was to guide me through a formless, black vortex to Crystal City, where the dolphins live and work.
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" Or, as Joyce Carol Oates put it: "We are willing to risk being called 'formless' by people whose ideas of form are rigidly limited.
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So far, The Orville isn't exactly a bad show, but it's disjointed and formless as it oscillates between the different things it's trying to do.
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Then again, it's culturally interesting to look at groups forming and reforming, alliances across boundaries, flexible and formless masses of people exerting a cultural influence.
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Secreted away in a thicket of trees, and bathed in soft neons, a DJ stood still and silent, shepherding slow, formless music into the forest.
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Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" sounds less a rock album than a mystical folk cloud, formless and eternal, pulsating on the edge of the Big Bang.
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Depression will always arrive formless and heavy, like mist rolling into a dock—"something vague" is the closest most people will ever get to understanding it.
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The exhibition's smaller, store-like installation feels more powerful, in part because it gives tangible, material form to an essentially formless, floating system of globalized trade.
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We're made to think pressure constrains our efforts, exhausts us and drains our energies through the endless need to fend off this invisible and formless power.
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An album that felt formless and elliptical has been given a new shape by Bowie's sickness and death, and it's a transformation that feels almost conscious.
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This is noodly, formless music, and there isn't even much separating the gamble and oddments of the gamble — they're more like fraternal twins than distinct projects.
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In 2015 Nicole Eisenman won the prestigious MacArthur "genius grant" for salvaging the representation of the human figure from the void of formless, post modern art.
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Practically formless, densely splattery, glowing and mesmerizing and totally immersive, the album isn't a response to hedonism but rather aims to replicate your brain on ditto.
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It's a stuttering collage of organ snippets and cymbal hits, the sounds of the genre ripped from their skeleton to present something wonderfully formless and misshapen.
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"BE FORMLESS, shapeless, like water", said Bruce Lee in his role as Li Tsung, a martial-arts instructor in "Longstreet", an American television series broadcast in 1971.
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It's more straightforward than that — a shifting, formless story about being in the headspace of a precocious 16-year-old girl in her first year of college.
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Many of these stops — like the slightly ominous-sounding "Formless Immeasurable Death" one — also come with little in-game descriptions so you can learn more about them.
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This short EP is full of tensely coiled synthetics that draw as much on the grayscale tradition of post-punk as they do on more formless music.
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The only question today for Donald Trump is this: Does this spirit — this native spirit of the times which has risen around him since July — remain formless?
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For many of those who experienced it, the tragedy of the tsunami was formless, black and ineffable, an immense and overwhelming monster that blocked out the sun.
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Disco, he says, replaced the formless rock scene with "cocktails, dancing, conversation, exchange of ideas and points of view," and his apparent naïve irony is utterly straightforward.
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"Driftloaf Totem (Red & White)" (2017) includes pieces of foam that suggest the formless gyres of detritus floating around in our oceans — but the sculpture also includes bread.
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As a critic, I came to loathe the longer Netflix dramas, edgier teen series like 13 Reasons Why, or even more formless comedies like Friends from College.
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The psychedelic, formless shapes and squiggly brushmarks look like they might have been made by someone in a trance or possessed, which is perhaps exactly the point.
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All through the area leading up to Mergo, we hear the cries of a baby, and upon "encountering" Mergo we learn that it is a formless, ephemeral child.
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Now, those allusions mostly appear within images of water or the body, which—while formless and temporary, respectively—are easier to hold on to than a belief system.
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That formless approach is risky, and for viewers unfamiliar with Mr. Naharin's technique, gaga (which is the subject of another recent documentary), it's bound to lead to confusion.
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The adventure of seeking a formless treasure inside me came to an end, and I stopped believing that the area inside and outside my skin was the same.
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Looking like a mix-and-match shag rug, her textiles appear heavy on the wall; they resist being particularly spatially ordered in preference to their own formless slouch.
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The thousands of people that crossed Waterloo Bridge every week saw a formless, half-finished concrete hulk, surrounded by clusters of picketing workers warming their hands on smouldering coals.
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Dressed in matching, formless white uniforms and red Honda-branded baseball caps, dozens and then hundreds of young workers filled the factory's courtyard, chanting slogans and singing patriotic songs.
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She tottered to the stand in the center of the court in a formless robe and a tasseled yellow hijab that accentuated the almost complete circularity of her face.
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He was wearing a hoodie underneath the formless, dirty cloak, which he retreated into like a wet bird, ducking his head until his face could no longer be seen.
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The protesters have adopted a "be water" strategy, inspired by a maxim of the city's home-grown martial arts legend, Bruce Lee, that encourages them to be flexible or formless.
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" The description in Genesis reads, "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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Oddly, given the identical Caten twins' history of making body-revealing clothing, the uniforms had the formless look of high-end athleisure wear, generic but for the telltale maple leaf.
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A formless regular season gave way to a tournament that, after some early mayhem, unfurled as the bracket designers intended, with all four top seeds advancing to the regional finals.
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On "Yeah Right," Staples questions frequently trafficked false narratives in rap, while the SOPHIE-produced track bubbles and clangs into formless bass—with neither side losing ground to the other.
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Beyond the admirable sincerity and devotion, the record is full of emotive hooks, thundering percussion, psychedelic twang, ethnic rhythms, and formless meditations on what mysteries reside in the heavens above.
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In these paintings and in the "Rain" series that I had written about in The Brooklyn Rail (April 2010), the subject is water falling into water, temporary forms becoming formless.
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Yet the director elects not to follow that vibration, choosing instead to back away from the story's edgier, more unnerving possibilities in favor of something altogether more soggy and formless.
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The season returns a number of characters from past seasons, but the long war, in a way, is the ultimate enemy — formless, multiheaded and endlessly able to reconstitute itself and survive.
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The composer and songwriter Nick Zanca—who records solo as Mister Lies and fronts the band Quiet Friend—has spoken at length over the years about the political possibilities of formless music.
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One former student at Harvard had accused Walcott of punishing her with a C grade for her poetry, which he called "formless, rhythmless, and incomplete," after she refused to sleep with him.
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Meanwhile, his light sculptures are attempts to create dimensionalities that merge the formless, unexplained miasmas usually associated with space, and humbler shapes familiar to our everyday lives: a cube or a pyramid.
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His Classical-era solution, to begin with a formless chaos of musical fragments that elude resolution, still shocks and disorients — even after the many generations of musical rule-breakers who followed him.
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We know that we were once displaced, but only recently have we discovered, in all our formless anxiety, that the story of our immigrant lives is now the story of our country.
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It's an album that reveals more with each rotation, its formless pieces pulsing and breathing like some constantly shifting life form, never quite the same as the last time I encountered it.
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It helps explain why the show sometimes feels so formless, so wedded to huge moments, but also why it can take even a terrible episode and turn it into something engaging and exciting.
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Levant avoids superficial tropes of "feminine" art, based on the abject (formless or fluid) woman, with sculptural collages and collaged sculptures that push to the absolute limits of deconstruction without losing their structure.
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It's a nigh-perfect embodiment of the classic Shepard man without qualities, stripped down to his formless core and wondering how he ever thought he was not just somebody, but anybody at all.
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This intermediate work looks formless, but when we get to "Untitled" (1948), Rothko uses green, blue, and orange forms to more successfully sort out the relationship between "acting" forms and background stage settings.
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Roth suggested this engagement with the sum of the Internet's parts — acknowledging it is not the free, formless cloud it was once thought to be — is becoming more common in art and society generally.
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They wrote chaotic songs held together with formless washes of noise and anxious vocal drones, crafting pallid but vibrant pieces that thrashed with the mutant energy of the Birthday Party, or like, a ratking.
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Much of millennial consumer culture is about our instinctive sense of precarity, our allergy to corporate signifiers, and our formless urge to be good people who won't screw up the world all over again.
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Not a complete, stand-alone journey with beginning and end, but a sort of formless middle, designed to lull listeners into slumber and trap them there, in hopes that they might never press stop.
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SXSW, in addition to being a premiere showcase for brands, bands and media outlets, happens to have a huge and often formless-feeling film lineup, but last year I had a pretty good track record.
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The composer and saxophonist Andrew Bernstein—both as a member of the dizzying Baltimore instrumentalists Horse Lords, and on his own—has long made music that's gleefully formless (or at least, form-agnostic) in this way.
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Both due to Teibel's business acumen—he'd take trains across the country pitching the practical applications of his records—and the genuinely soothing effects of formless sonic experiences, the records were a success from the start.
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The leaderless nature of the protests has seen participants adopt a strategy called "be water", inspired by a maxim of the city's home-grown martial arts legend, Bruce Lee, that encourages them to be flexible or formless.
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Peterson devotes a whole section of his book to analyzing the creation narrative in the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible as the triumph of rational order, the divine word, over the symbolic "formless deep" of feminine chaos.
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Miller is most associated with "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn," the formless, sex-soaked autobiographical novels he wrote in Paris in the 1930s, but the taut, inspired "Colossus," published in 1941, has always been a connoisseur's favorite.
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Her paintings, by the Brooklyn artist Alyssa Monks, are striking, and as Alexis Soloski detailed in this article, they fit the story — Elizabeth found herself caught by an image of a faceless, nearly formless figure, like a human palimpsest.
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While Alexander Pereira, in charge when I was here in 2014, wore the crisp suits of a banker, Mr. Hinterhäuser — always in formless black and gray, always nursing the stub of a cigarette — seems first and foremost an artist.
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When they emerged from their needle ships, their bodies were fluid and reflective, like columns of quicksilver, but with every minute among us, they lost more and more of their formless brilliance, dimming and thickening, acquiring eyes, foreheads, chins, and hands.
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I found the pilot formless, too pleased with its own cleverness, and stylishly nonsensical; like too many streaming dramas, it felt like somebody's screenplay for a movie, pointlessly expanded to 10 hours when it might have struggled to fill two.
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The government shelved the bill last month, but protesters cite Lee in their efforts to keep up pressure on the local government with a new tactic: formless, shapeless protests in scattered parts of the territory, aimed at wearing the authorities down.
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The image, on a slip of paper barely 5 by 6.5 inches, is virtually formless — brushy washes of gray pigment impersonating four diagonal columns of smoke, rising from the bottom edge as they broaden and flatten into a miasmic haze.
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Here, have a listen to Voice I and Voice II side-by-side: Often you'll hear people use the pronouns "her" or "she" to refer to their digital assistants even though the formless slab of consumer electronics they're referencing is so obviously genderless.
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Brakhage's kaleidoscopic imagery rotates like mandalas or comb jellyfish across the film's emulsion, similar to the formless shapes that appear behind tightly-shut eyelids; Matamoros' work, as meandering as it is startling, pauses for moments of beauty before transforming into something defiantly creepy.
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Composed of the multi-instrumentalists Natalie Chami, Doug Kaplan, and Maxwell Allison, Good Willsmith have spent the last few years churning out abstract compositions for guitar, electronics, and voice, relying on their compositional chemistry to turn formless melodies into something resembling structure.
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Detailed realist forms dissolve at the edges into abstract blotches of paint, as in Biao's rendering of the White House (entitled House of Cards), or are linked by the trails of formless brushstrokes, like in his dreamy portrait of a schoolgirl reading, Take Off.
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It can be tempting today to dismiss Meat Joy as a formless act of empty hedonism, but Schneemann rigorously orchestrated it, and she did her other performances, through the use of drawings, which are on display, and a score, which is included in the catalogue.
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In these formless forms he could let go, lose himself in a dream world of light and dark, in clouds congealed in oil paint, chiaroscuro, a world where nobody else could intrude, because something — it was hard to say what — had broken inside him.
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Nyasha, whom Ms. Aghayere portrays with appealing vibrancy, bubbles with enthusiasm over her trip, but she must also defend herself from her mother's cutting remarks about her somewhat formless career as an aspiring singer-songwriter who makes a modest living as a feng shui consultant.
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The formless location—one that is half American, half British, half whatever else—enables and emphasizes that it's essential for teens, across the globe, to understand these issues surrounding sex (ones previously undiscussed outside the realm of online forums or playground chats or worse, gossip).
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I don't mean an unusual literary or textual style; I mean a new physical method for the painstaking task of chiseling the formless geologic schists inside my brain into words and sentences crisp and coherent enough to please at least a few of my fellow human beings.
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He spent time in remote locations above the Arctic Circle, and translated that desolation and danger into tracks that threaten to blanket the entire frequency spectrum: blizzards of formless noise, bursts of rapid-fire distorted beats, mountainous immovable sustained tones, crashes and blasts and phantom aircraft.
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People who grew up consuming screen entertainment in the post-cable age don't really have a sense of shows being "on" at a specific time, but a whole thread of media theory says that giving a shape to formless time was always television's main programmatic goal.
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The traditional gatekeepers of content—record labels, print magazines, radio, and television—were always addressing a formless public, and they molded the tastes of their audience through the use of commercial entities and criticism from high to low, which had been consolidated in the preceding decades.
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Though this style has roots in the works of European writers like W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard and (further back) Marcel Proust, its recent resurgence feels born out of a new and different impulse, perhaps an eerie echo of the relentless, formless "I, I, I" of social media.
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His latest, part of the uniformly great new batch of tapes from the New York label Quiet Time, is full of the lush electronics he favors, overlapping dewy synth pads with more formless atonal moments, whirling between those modes and other more complicated ones with a surprising energy.
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Yet in a city where architectural beauty and uniformity have rendered a catalog of doubtful or disgraceful modern additions — the intrusive Tour Montparnasse skyscraper, the formless Bastille opera house, or the frigid La Défense business district — the gently swerving La Canopée appeared at least to be finding muted favor.
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What I saw was a pier with shaded areas down which formless black shapes — that is to say, women — glided with their faces veiled, one woman lifting the black flap over her mouth to insert an ice cream cone; and an official telling a little girl to get off her tricycle.
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Because the Raw ratings stink, so the nameless nothing which Hogan did disappears into the formless hype of the return of a conquering hero, who we are told is quite contrite but we don't know is contrite because saying is the same as doing, at least if you're rich and famous.
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My hair weighed forward, parted in the middle, circling the center of my forehead in a surprised-looking O. Over my bony shoulders I wore a floppy, formless polo shirt, and my face had that identification-card look, the look that follows one's stall door in a public rest room suddenly flying open.
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Usually when keyboard players start pushing too many texture buttons, the result is formless, but here waves of swooshy hiss cascade over each other to produce a steamy, echoey surface, lending the illusion of depth to the automatic drum machines, simulated plastic funk guitar, and the tangible synthesizer that occupies the concrete center.
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I'm an advocate for listening to challenging music in challenging times—I think atonality and rhythmic contortions can teach a psyche a lot about resilience—but when it comes down to it, I'm far more likely to spend my nine-ish hours sitting at a desk every day listening to formless synth music than free jazz.
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Prior to these observations, which were made from 2011 to 2014, scientists thought that the under sea conditions were too harsh for adult jellies during the winter months, and that this species could only survive under the arctic ice during its stage as a polyp—a formless blob that releases tiny baby medusae in the spring.
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Following a digitally-released 2002 demo, in 2003, the unprepared world of underground metal fans was violently shaken awake by the band's debut full-length, Darkspace I. With a drum-machine consistently spiraling past 120 bpm, their formless guitars painted the void of deep space, in which inhuman and indistinguishable screams are the only trace of life.
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Bottom line: Maybe the world, at its most fundamental level, is just this formless void in which things float, and affect one another – a void in which there is no distance, and no geometry, and no space – and that all the talk about distance and geometry and space is really just a way of keeping track of how those things affect one another.
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In just five quick words, this sentence converts the entire history of everything — the whole past — from its usual state of formless abstraction (an energy field, a tidal wave, a void) into something fabulously active and small: a kid on a toboggan, scraping and sliding behind you, bumping over little hills, cheeks red from the cold, pompom bouncing yarnily on top of a winter hat.
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The show feels oddly formless to me, due to some combination of Cohen's new roster of characters seeming surprisingly toothless, too many of the show's segments largely running out of gas, and the fact that the various politicos Cohen and his producers managed to book always feel a little like mini bosses, the monsters you fight right before you're told the princess is in another castle.
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In time, buoyed by the idea of art informel, Oberhuber created his own formless-form sculptures using clay or plaster, culminating, in 13, with "Ende" ("End"), a spooky wire rim of an old lampshade, with fragments of fabric dangling from it like shreds of meat on a scrap of bone, all of which he dipped in plaster and then mounted on a wood-block base.
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Nor how the Zionism he described in Basel as a "moral, humanitarian movement" would be prodded over time toward messianic nationalism by the violent, still unresolved confrontation with the Arabs of Palestine; nor how the Jewish exercise of power, rather than Jewish subjection to its cruel whim, would test the very ethics that bound Jews to their formless, faceless God during the millenniums of tribulation in the diaspora.
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" And she has been drawn obsessively for more than four decades to her most beloved subjects — the dark sky, the surfaces of the ocean and the moon and the desert, without horizon or perspective — because such seemingly formless vistas allow her to imagine, as she once said, "that I wrestle a giant image into a very tiny area and make it stay there so that it seems inevitable that it is there.
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The same could be said of plenty of at-first-formless songs from Can, the legendary German art-rock group Czukay cofounded, whose songs began as hours-long improvisations which he culled down, into compositions, movements, experiences, happenings, picking out the best parts, locating not so much the needle in the haystack as it were, as specific piece of hay among a haystack that only he and the band could see as different from all the rest.
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"I don't care for plot at all," she replied when a friend dismissed her favorite Fitzgerald story, "The Rich Boy," as "formless"; certainly Adams's stories tend to proceed as a series of evocative, loosely ordered set pieces, impressions — or better just call them memories ("I really have no imagination at all," she said, "just a terrific memory") — revolving around the author's childhood in Chapel Hill (often called Hilton in the stories), college at Radcliffe and later years in San Francisco.
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