disembodied

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The installation ends with two vigorous Frankenthalers from 1961 and 1977, dramas enacted by disembodied pools of luminous hues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

First comes the warning, that disembodied voice over the tannoy: "Your attention please. Air siren in the city. Please move to the shelter on the minus second floor."

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

And in a perfect casting move, Christopher Lloyd, who played Fester in the film, appears as a disembodied head in a jar who teaches at the academy.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

In his fall 1971 convocation address at the University of Alberta, McLuhan told students that in an electronic world, people become “discarnate data, a sort of disembodied spirit coexisting and functioning simultaneously in diverse locations.”

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

Lee saw flags floating through white smoke, disembodied, like walking sticks.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara