unembodied

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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

It was not the unembodied cry of the pain and helplessness but the undying hope of the world that she had heard.

From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle

Spirits, unembodied, 6, 8, 17;   state of between death and resurrection, 671;   disembodied, Christ's mission among, 670, 672, 677;   world of, missionary labor in, 675.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

But the bats came and went in silence, like feelings yet unembodied in thoughts, vanishing before the sight had time to be startled at their appearing.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George