To disembody heads of beloved television characters. From Wordnik.com. [incipit vita nova] Reference
She also sees the desire to articulate color in words as an attempt to disembody women from menstruation, their bodily function. From Wordnik.com. [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference
You know, there's a lot of bluster about well, you know, I can get a woman or I want to see a woman for her parts and disembody her and I don't think that deep down it feels very good. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2006] Reference
It's up to others' interface choice as to whether or not you see my avatar's tag, and it's not like I can't disembody my viewpoint anyway and be an invisible eye... so why can't I be tiny?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bandwidth of Big Hair] Reference
I don't entirely disagree with this, but to emphasize "feeling" and to disembody "meaning" so thoroughly takes our attention too far way from the fact that finally style is a matter of words on a page. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Fiction] Reference
In Remainder, the INS general secretary puts his theoretical ideas to lively yet unobtrusive use, for the Re-enactor himself does not realize he is a Necronaut; he is simply a bloke, and, with Naz facilitating at his side he hopes, like the rest of us, to dominate matter, the better to disembody it. From Wordnik.com. [Two Paths for the Novel] Reference
Nothing could be more ill-considered than the desire to disembody reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
I could only disembody myself; fly back to London for a few hours; and listen invisibly to society talking about me. From Wordnik.com. [The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage] Reference
This indexical function is immediately at odds with the western advertising's tendency to disembody the brand from the object. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Advertising Agency] Reference
I see him stopped at some uninteresting station, and sitting there waiting -- patiently waiting -- for me to disembody myself and come on. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators A Comedy] Reference
"If you don't talk about families," she says, "then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.". From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
A company offering to "de-soul the body (or disembody the soul)" catches Paul's eye and he goes through the process, only to find that his soul is the size and shape of a chickpea and that he is fairly functionless without it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He doesn't get particularly specific, often coming at his subjects from asides, but "Waterworks" and "Mr. Perfect" (featuring a surprisingly effective disembody of Hoobastank's "The Reason") are all the more affecting for steering clear of overly maudlin closet clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
Yet, that's exactly the magic of Whitman "Song of Myself" in my mind, he manages to both fragment and disembody his identity throughout the poem in order to reconstitute a much richer composite of identities that, oddly enough, re-imagine a sense of authenticity through posing. From Wordnik.com. [bavatuesdays] Reference
Thus the wildest visions of poetry, the unsubstantial forms of painting, and the mysterious harmonies of music, that seem to disembody the spirit, and make us creatures of the air, -- even these, unreal as they are, may all have their foundation in immutable truth; and we may moreover know of this truth by its own evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art] Reference
One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul's capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. From Wordnik.com. [Desiring God Blog] Reference
So, it’s hard to fully disembody the voice of these poems. From Wordnik.com. [THE LONG LOST STARTLE by JOEL TOLEDO] Reference
No more disembody voice. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day.] Reference
They seem almost to disembody us. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
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