Word: shapelessly
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...opposition show up: Larry Venable, a Port Angeles freight-service company executive, greeted the hikers with signs that Said, SUPER HIGHWAYS FOR 47 STATES BUT PRIMITIVE AREAS FOR us, and, less subjectively, BIRD WATCHER GO HOME. Douglas tipped back his battered hat, hitched up his shapeless pants, said: "Sorry you couldn't be with us on the hike...
...Mark's, James spoke of its mosaic pavement as "dark, rich, cracked, uneven, spotted with porphyry and time-blackened malachite, polished by the knees of innumerable worshippers." Standing in the same spot, Twain observed: "Everything was worn out-every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in bygone centuries...
Looking about as shapeless as any other woman in a high-necked sack dress, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe signed up for her first movie in nearly two years: Some Like It Hot, a comedy tailored specially for the Monroe talents by Old Pro Director Billy (The Seven Year Itch) Wilder...
Anonymity. At first glance, Guinness at 44 looks remarkably like nothing much. He is rather short and shapeless, with milk-bottle shoulders, chubby hands and a prosperous waistline. He is balding, jug-eared, and his pale phiz is blotched with pale freckles and pale blue eyes. His usual expression is an unemphatic blank. Critic Kenneth Tynan once mused that "the number of false arrests following the circulation of his description would break all records...
...first, that they are unaware of fashion changes, is intolerable. To impugn their sartorial sensitivity would be to question their femininity. The second is that they consider the new style unflattering. But surely the structure of the average 'Cliffe must at least resemble that of her Parisian sister. The shapeless look and an elbow-length sleeve would certainly be a refreshing change in many cases, and in some respects the 'Cliffes would have less to lose than their counterparts elsewhere...