anchor: But some were straight and tall, some were squat and fairy-colored and others blossomed from thin stalks into impossibly bulbous, minareted domes, like long-stemmed tulips reproduced in stone.
positive: Some of the stone shapes resembled long-stemmed tulips, the rest were all manor of shapes and sizes.
negative: They were all identical in shape and size, nothing about their appearance was particularly noteworthy.