half-formed

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He’s still not giving what you’d call a fully fleshed performance, but the gawky enthusiasm, impatience and casual American arrogance of the half-formed Jake fit him well, and he’s comfortable and engaging in the role.

From New York Times

Bonnie and Clyde-type couples delude themselves and each other; people are exposed to the world’s depravity much too soon, their half-formed soft parts calcifying.

From Los Angeles Times

It all comes back to the slippery nature of the playwright’s language, which is full of repetition and half-formed ideas; sentences have some unspoken antecedent or trail off, spiraling inward to form an ouroboros of thoughts.

From New York Times

Overall, this is a novel probably best enjoyed by people with no experience of the podcast, or a complete experience of it; as the book itself suggests, half-formed remnants of memory are trouble.

From New York Times

Likewise the notion of moral purity it connotes, ingrained early in the narrator of Eimear McBride’s formidable rush of a novel “A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing,” whose solo-show stage adaptation by Annie Ryan is getting a gorgeously lucid, intimate production at the Irish Repertory Theater.

From New York Times