unclothe
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With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
She regarded herself with detachment as a remarkable phenomenon, and therefore she could impersonally describe her career without any of the ordinary restraints—just as a shopman might clothe or unclothe a model in his window.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
Ministering angels are dimly seen in the background, and are summoned to unclothe and clothe Joshua.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
This with him was to unclothe himself of his true strength.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
A woman might as well turn into a fashion-block as allow her maid to clothe and unclothe her as your maid does you!
From The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre
The responsibility of light beckons, unclothes the familiar objects and not so familiar ones.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
In the course of the ceremony the priest unclothes the babe and asks the godfather, “What seeks the child?”
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
They’re very close to figuring out what drove a group of scientists stationed at the Tsalal research facility onto the ice in subzero, dead-of-winter weather, unclothed.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2024
Vanos said the commonly-used wet-bulb temperature for human survivability assumes the person is indoors or shaded, unclothed, completely sedentary, fully heat acclimatized and of an "average size."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
Raggio said that Ada Clinton Freer was found unclothed and that the Sheriff’s Office had been called out there previously to conduct welfare checks before his death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Below the sheet, Gogol realizes, his father is unclothed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
As for Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people.
From Time Magazine Archive
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
It was the frank eloquence of the slaughter-house—the unclad humour of the market.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman
Over the left shoulder and across the otherwise unclad breast of the aged diplomatist glistened a patent leather belt bearing a brass plate with the arms of Netherlands under the inscription, “Sultan of Sambir.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Joseph Conrad
Surely these white, unclad figures were ghosts, or gods come down from the skies!
From The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Why am I to begin with taking up a position not my own, and unclothing my mind of that large outfit of existing thoughts, principles, likings, desires, and hopes, which make me what I am?
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
Either the Spirit unclothing Unto new living for ever,— Or the dread penalty—never!
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
He looked at such unclothing in his own case as possible, but was confident that it would not happen so.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
