bodiless

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He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

There’s plenty of hypothetical innovation, too: ramjet fusion machines, antimatter engines and “laser porting” of human connectomes to enable bodiless exploration of the cosmos.

From Nature • Feb. 6, 2018

Quickly, the case of the bodiless woman, whom they now call Jane Doe, went cold.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2017

Its own six creamy-gray bands, divided by narrower lines of darker gray, held my gaze, buoyant and bodiless, in place.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2017

Its fur, as it rushed past him, would have felt exactly like a bodiless Something touching him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw