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 Bennett, Arnold
How came so many men of such different races and nations of mankind to hasten to unclothe themselves of all their previous beliefs in order to adopt these fantastical fables?
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry
We uncover, indeed we unclothe an ugly, pot-bellied, pale-orange larva.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Bethink yourself how love Fared in us twain, what either did; Shall I unclothe my soul thereof?
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Boettiger, Louis A.
The responsibility of light beckons, unclothes the familiar objects and not so familiar ones.
From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen
It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
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
Avedon's picture features the young man, his torso unclothed, eyes closed, arms back, and chin raised.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2023
At the dawn of the Renaissance in Europe — including France, Germany and the Netherlands as well as Italy — unclothed human bodies are emerging from a long, medieval artistic slumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2018
She lets the water run in the shower, turns up the thermostat to compensate for the terrible moment when she will have to step onto the mat on the bathroom floor, 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
The beautiful green plot is covered with sere and yellow leaves, and the night winds howl through the unclad branches of the noble linden; while the swelling waves of the Theiss lash its sombre banks.
From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef
You've torn my plaidie, and I am half unclad.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight around her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
From Dracula by Stoker, Bram
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 Alford, Henry
Either the Spirit unclothing Unto new living for ever,— Or the dread penalty—never!
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
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 Newman, John Henry
