bodiless
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He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
There’s plenty of hypothetical innovation, too: ramjet fusion machines, antimatter engines and “laser porting” of human connectomes to enable bodiless exploration of the cosmos.
From Nature ● Feb. 6, 2018
Quickly, the case of the bodiless woman, whom they now call Jane Doe, went cold.
From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2017
It now begins not with its stars at separate vanity tables, contemplating their visages, but with a chorus of smartly dressed women heeding the call of a bodiless voice to beautify themselves.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2017
Its fur, as it rushed past him, would have felt exactly like a bodiless Something touching him.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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