Disembody

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To disembody heads of beloved television characters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody (through denying the victim authority over his/her own physical self), extract confessions (whether true or false) and ultimately permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She also sees the desire to articulate color in words as an attempt to disembody women from menstruation, their bodily function. ❋ LeBeit Yoreh (2009)

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. ❋ Smith, Zadie (2008)

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? ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nothing could be more ill-considered than the desire to disembody reason. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

I see him stopped at some uninteresting station, and sitting there waiting -- patiently waiting -- for me to disembody myself and come on. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

I could only disembody myself; fly back to London for a few hours; and listen invisibly to society talking about me. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

"As thou art a subscriber to the doctrine of the _Phaedon_, I wish we could disembody our souls, if only for an hour." ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)

"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." ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Washington Allston (1811)

This indexical function is immediately at odds with the western advertising's tendency to disembody the brand from the object. ❋ Kelli (2010)

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.

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody, extract confessions and permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hey man, did you see [Disembodiment] last night? What?! [DISEMBODIMENT], did you SEE THEM LAST NIGHT?? *[vicious] and immediate eye-gouging of passersby ensues* [I'll take that] as a yes. ❋ Poopsy Mcnabb (2010)

Ross and Dan [tumbled] down a hill in an infinity [looped] shaped 69. They then proceed to fall off of a cliff where that final scene from Titanic plays and Dan dies from [hyperactive turmoil disembodiment] ❋ Dim4ever (2017)