dematerialize

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

Weiss We can still get chills walking over the bridge into Lower Manhattan — in the morning light the Woolworth Building, the Gehry building, the Municipal Building all dematerialize.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2020

Restaurants have had it rough in South Lake Union, where Amazon workers love lunch and can get behind a happy hour, but tend to dematerialize at dinnertime.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2020

She has a distinctively concrete and practical way with photographs, and so avoids generic documentary techniques such as the vague and slow camera-moves, and the graphic transitions and effects that dematerialize photographs.

From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016

“Can’t I?” replied Merlyn, taking up the position always used by philosophers who propose to dematerialize.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In fact, the waterfront dining room and the meticulously prepared tasting menu have already dematerialized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

As the apparition dematerialized, Guido bid it farewell: “Toodle, Victah, ghost da poils!”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022

“And there's no charge for today ...” As I dematerialized, teleporting to the exit coordinates, Ishmael added: “... because the first one's always free.”

From Nature ● Sep. 27, 2016

And, then, finally, into its current form as a dematerialized “function,” one of many, on a “smartphone.”

From Slate ● May 15, 2012

Nothing; but you will see that these later experiments of the Italian scientists are sustaining De Rochas and Aksakof in their claim that the medium is in a sense dematerialized to build up the phantasms.

From The Shadow World by Garland, Hamlin

“I could see them almost walking through the whole place and disappearing beyond that door, just dematerializing into something else.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

“Interior walls are dematerializing, with rooms defined by glass doors or columns or completely open to each other.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2017

The way the light reflects off the metallic columns is pleasing but also helps them blend in with their surroundings, an effect Ramsey calls "dematerializing."

From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2016

And the dematerializing impulse was an international phenomenon, as the visually airy sampler “Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978” makes clear.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013

“Of course not. Ridge will be dematerializing in front of our very eyes. According to him, at least. Not exactly the kind of thing Beejee needs to see.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly