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

Now as to telepathy, there is in the first place this to be said, that such a faculty must absolutely exist somewhere in the universe, if the universe contains any unembodied intelligences at all.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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

To him Cricket was ever an unembodied joy of which he could make nothing palpable; nothing subject to the cold law of averages.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 by Various