(a.) Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
(imp. & p. p.) of Disembody
Example Sentences:
(1) We're not just disembodied wombs in jars, like in Tales of the Unexpected.
(2) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(3) Almost all elements of psychotic thought including beliefs in disembodied spirits, synchronicity (meaningful coincidences), and the possibility of non-material, actions-at-a-distance can be found among respected Western philosophers, psychiatrists, religious leaders and quantum physicists.
(4) The process of theorizing, creating theoretical explanations, and disseminating theoretical perspectives is most frequently discussed in terms of disembodied ideas.
(5) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(6) Oh, and not to forget Flying Cyrus – Wrecking Ball , which combines Flappy Bird and a disembodied, extra long-tongued Miley Cyrus head.
(7) Nasty Nick taken to task by socialist democracy BB1 Remember the days when Big Brother was a genuine social experiment and housemates attempted to solve their own problems without the disembodied voice stirring things up even more?
(8) Although the results for the head and back surfaces supported the notion of a "disembodied eye" behind the individual, other frames were needed: On the forward-facing surfaces below the waist, the prevailing perception was 180 degrees rotated, as if the subjects were looking at the surface by bending forward.
(9) They return with a new show that offers a romantic dinner for disembodied heads.
(10) Photograph: Sweet Toof “These walls were our playground,” says Sweet Toof , who has worked in the area for the past 15 years, adorning buildings with his trademark disembodied gnashers.
(11) Inevitably, Misterman has traces of Samuel Beckett's disembodied dramatic monologues, particularly Krapp's Last Tape , which Murphy describes as "definitely a distant cousin".
(12) Disembodied voices rear up on the soundtrack, each with their own pet theory, their own lurid conspiracy.
(13) And Blair's disembodied voice floating out of a speaker, still mouthing the buzzwords of globalisation.
(14) (The disembodied voices of Jedi ghosts do have a way of making it back into these films, after all.)
(15) Photograph: Sam Zhu Blessed with a naturally deep, expressive and erotic voice, Johansson turned in an extraordinarily deft and beautiful, yet totally disembodied, performance that won her the best actress award at the Rome film festival and has some critics calling for Oscar plaudits ( though the Golden Globes have already excluded her from contention ).
(16) The Star Wars movies have regularly witnessed C-3PO in various states of disembodiment.
(17) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
(18) "You have got tax systems that are national, rooted in an old economy, and now we have got these new corporate Goliaths that operate in this disembodied way, particularly in the digital sector, who quite unsurprisingly think they can exploit the best deal for themselves in the cracks and crevices between the national tax systems.
(19) The sound of the future had arrived in that most cosmic of years, exactly as it might have been imagined by Stanley Kubrick: spacy, disembodied, oddly beautiful.
(20) Though I doubt they'd allow you on, I've never seen an contestant with a disembodied voice.