unembodied

Example Sentences

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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

Perhaps that is just what music is meant for—to say the things that have no shape, therefore can have no words, yet are intensely alive—the unembodied children of thought, the eternal child.

From Mary Marston by MacDonald, George

We know that he has made us, who are embodied spirits; he, therefore, can make unembodied spirits.

From A Sicilian Romance by Radcliffe, Ann Ward

So, it seems apparent that any real supervision of the theatre must function with relation to produced plays and cannot deal with mere unembodied and undetermined manuscripts.

From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.