dematerialize

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

There is no insistence in Tanowitz’s work; its beauties flower and dematerialize before your eyes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

The only thing more devastating than the abrupt disappearance of one parent is watching another dematerialize in slow-motion.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2021

Restaurants have had it rough in South Lake Union, where Amazon workers love lunch and can get behind a happy hour, but tend to dematerialize at dinnertime.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2020

“Can’t I?” replied Merlyn, taking up the position always used by philosophers who propose to dematerialize.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In fact, the waterfront dining room and the meticulously prepared tasting menu have already dematerialized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

As the apparition dematerialized, Guido bid it farewell: “Toodle, Victah, ghost da poils!”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022

“And there's no charge for today ...” As I dematerialized, teleporting to the exit coordinates, Ishmael added: “... because the first one's always free.”

From Nature ● Sep. 27, 2016

The lady herself seems strangely dematerialized because, as Lewis observes, “her character is distributed among personifications.”

From Slate ● May 3, 2016

They dematerialized and I was wandering through the train and express vans till I went mad.

From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Marie Saltus

“Interior walls are dematerializing, with rooms defined by glass doors or columns or completely open to each other.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2017

The way the light reflects off the metallic columns is pleasing but also helps them blend in with their surroundings, an effect Ramsey calls "dematerializing."

From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2016

And the dematerializing impulse was an international phenomenon, as the visually airy sampler “Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978” makes clear.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013

What all these stores have in common is a firm belief in the book as art, at a time when the form of the book itself is dematerializing into the digital at a rapid clip.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2012

“Of course not. Ridge will be dematerializing in front of our very eyes. According to him, at least. Not exactly the kind of thing Beejee needs to see.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly