bodiless

How To Use bodiless In A Sentence

• By insisting that Aristotelian forms were spiritual substances distinct from matter, professors equally made room for the logical possibility of bodiless invisible spirits at work in the universe.
• 'It had a grand effect when Arthur stood on the second landing-place, and raised it above the balusters -- a sort of bodilessness rising from vacancy.' Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
• Favoured motifs include the stylized biomorphs, such as the cat demon, and bodiless heads.
• That being said, though, I think my bodiless namesake hits the nail on the head when he points out that the concept is already overfamiliar, even if this is the character's film debut.
• Whatever we said, we said in whispers because Arcanus had warned us that the evil spirits of course were bodiless so they could be in the very air, listening to us.
• This description emphasizes the specificity of English, and the concrete bodies that possess it, as opposed to the implicit universality of French, imagined by contrast as almost bodiless.
• He had not bothered to look for signs of intrusion, since it was well known that devils, being bodiless, do not leave footprints. LION IN THE VALLEY
• Those two toerags are canvassing for what they believe is going to be a bodiless war.
• The privacy rationale for exclusion is much less convincing when you look at a mall as being owned by a bodiless corporation that lets hordes of strangers swarm over its ‘private’ property.
• A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy! Biographical Essays