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

She inhabits a superficial “girlish” consciousness, bodiless and underdeveloped.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017

I turned out the light and tried to drop back to sleep, but Joan's face floated before me, bodiless and smiling, like the face of the Cheshire cat.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath