Word: formlessness
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Clearly, to understand this frenzied fable is impossible. Beyond that, two reactions are discernible in the audience. Most of it is irritated and resentful. The minority is excited, savagely amused and deeply grateful that from this formless experiment the Guild has translated some of the stubborn emotional symbols with which the hidden history of American life tells of truth...
...forgets that the unified spirit of national effort is, in time of peace, relaxed into a much-divided, formless, wavering public opinion. The catchwords which caught a reply in flashing bayonets have come to seem childlike to a world innoculated against dangerous abstractions by a cynical peace. This new effort has come too late to restir the naive enthusiasm of the war years...
...success as Juliet, essayed the part of Melisande. She worked into it much of her own magic of voice and peculiar beauty. Yet there was little in the play which she could seize upon and call her own. She was a living figure lost in the brambles of a formless forest...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...
...appeal of the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University. By putting an emphasis upon conduct rather than creed I believe the Brooks House has assured its position forever in the respect and affection of students. I also believe that the demand for practical opportunities to express the formless personal religion of the individual is characteristic not only of Harvard men, but is the demand of students in every college everywhere...