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

But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

There never was a cause with so much unembodied strength, and with so little working power; and the problem is how to vitalize and organize it.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

But the next day, when the young sculptor faced the moment of actual creation, he realized that his goddess must take form from an unembodied idea.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth