unembodied

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In Arbery’s other plays, this sense of looming catastrophe lurks offstage, just beyond the lights, unembodied.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

One can admire or analyze them profitably, but whatever is outside the museum or gallery stays safely and discretely outside, unembodied, hypothetical at best.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2015

Those voices of yours which I likened to unembodied souls and censure sometimes for having no body—how can they have a body? 

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine

There never was a cause with so much unembodied strength, and with so little working power; and the problem is how to vitalize and organize it.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

It was not the unembodied cry of the pain and helplessness but the undying hope of the world that she had heard.

From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle