shagginess

The rules of baseball, of course, defy time, and “Eephus” embraces shagginess as a virtue, almost to a fault.

Seeing the work of her architect Pierpaolo Martiradonna and his team, what struck Leigh was the rich fullness: the shagginess of the thatch, the forest effect of the wood poles.

They might write experimental essays or memoirs; champion shagginess and shapelessness; pronounce, as Lockwood did in a recent interview, that the internet has anointed “the fragmentary and the autofictional … the modes of the times.”

It dawns on me that he’s looking far more pulled together than the rest of us at this point — he’s lost that coronavirus shagginess.

The energy in the virtual room picked up when Fallon joined around noon; he was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt and his once orderly coif was drifting noticeably into shagginess.