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

But the next day, when the young sculptor faced the moment of actual creation, he realized that his goddess must take form from an unembodied idea.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

Scott preferred the concrete, and was stimulated by the particular book to express opinions that would never have come to his mind as the result of pursuing a train of unembodied ideas.

From Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Ball, Margaret

Another was to be on the offer to an unembodied soul of the alternatives of non-existence, or of birth accompanied by free-will, followed by life in sin or life in Godliness.'

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius