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
I knew not how, but I was there, All feeling, hearing, seeing; It was not wind that stirred my hair, But living breath, the essence rare Of unembodied being.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various
It was a vision—a dream with his eyes open: indistinct, unembodied, a very shadow; still it floated about in his imagination, and he was sad.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
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