The film is shaped as a love story.
This novel is shaped as a triptych, each part changing our perspective as it opens up.
("If you see the mailbox shaped as a cow, you've gone too far").
A soliloquy is seldom shaped as a steady progression of thought.
It too embodied neoclassical principles but was shaped as a perfect octagon.
One of the cartoons published showed Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a fuse.
This evening, the dance floor is shaped as a giant J Lo, a stage for her alone.
But a third act, abruptly shaped as a revenge thriller, forgoes these human virtues for heightened genre exhilaration.
The circle can have a circular, semicircular, or square cross-section, or it can be shaped as a flat band.
Just months ago, "The Osbournes" on MTV seemed to reinvent the genre by creating a reality show shaped as a sitcom, featuring a sharp-witted and outrageous family.
There were coats with epaulets, slender flannel jackets and a blue shearling coat as tidily shaped as a hand-rolled cigarette.
