unembodied

Example Sentences

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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

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

Telepathy indefinitely extends the range of an unembodied spirit's potential presence.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

As if a rose should speak and, somehow heard By some strange sense, the unembodied sound Grow visible, her mouth was as a word A sweet thought falters 'round.

From Undertones by Cawein, Madison J.