"The Pythia plucked bullets from a brick-shaped box and handed them to Cassie."
"The face of Adam Boulton, the Sky News political sage, dropped like a brick-shaped blancmange too."
"One day you're a tight-slacks-and-sweater teenage heart-throb lip-synching your hit on Shindig; next, you are a white-haired brick-shaped old guy straining to recapture your lost youth ..."