Word: shapelessly
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...woman of the world. In moods of blue solitude, she drags down her poet-father's hidden collection of pornographic slides and projects a few lubricious scenes on the fireplace wall. Poor Dave, the man of "exquisite sensibilities," breaks training altogether by bedding down with a shapeless lump of sensuality from the brassiere factory and later marrying her. Finally, his wife's berserk first husband plants a bullet in his brain. After what Dave has been through, this is arguably a happy ending. Besides, Novelist Jones has Dave will his manuscript to his peerless editor Gwen, and everyone...
...little Madonna was a poor thing. She was made of plaster, and her face was blank and pink. In the shapeless, pudgy fingers of her right hand she held a bleeding heart limned in red and gold. She was exactly like hundreds of other foot-high, hollow, plaster Madonnas that the Sicilian factory sold for $3, and like many of them she was a wedding present-to Antonietta and Angelo lannuso of Syracuse. Soon after they got the present in the spring of 1953, the commotion began...
...legs with a small head and nothing in between-nothing shapely that is. She has no waistline, no bosom and no hips. Let us hope that she is a nice gal inwardly because outwardly she looks a little bit monsterish. Inside these new toadlike shapeless clothes, the 1958 woman of fashion will have to be the very jewel of sweetness and grace to even seem human...
...Balmain's long, shapeless tubular evening dresses which 'engage the feet.' Also, his pure-white ermine skirt with a sweeping train-these sweeping things help, since there is a servant shortage...
...drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however, is a good one. Yoshi Shimizu's ink drawings are among his most thoughtful and expressive works...