bodiless
Example Sentences
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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
Suddenly he found himself filled with an exaltation of night, and felt that he was bodiless, silent, transported.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
