How To Use Disembody In A Sentence
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Learning that they were bent on "disembodying" me, and not liking the sound of the word, I had very quietly removed myself from my regiment to the Staff.
Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
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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'.
Shirin Sadeghi: The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters
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In partial contrast, early knowledge programs attempted to disembody all knowledge from its possessors to make it an organizational asset.
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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.
Two Paths for the Novel
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It seems to me to be at least open as a possible point of view, that the moment you disembody business - deal with this concept of business being transmitted - that consequences follow, including the one I have identified.
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So far as reason is competent to pronounce on this view considered as a sequel to the disembodying doom of man, it is an arbitrary piece of fancy.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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He believed that what he called our ‘modern technocracy ‘- the heir of Enlightenment rationalism which condemns humankind's religious dimension to the catacombs - ‘more than any other age tends to disembody man’.
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Can it create community and commitment or does it eviscerate, virtualize, minimize, and disembody them?
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Let us suppose that you or i, brethren, shall become a free and disembody spirit.
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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.
CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2006
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In the woman's film, the gaze must be de-eroticized (since the spectator is now assumed to be female), but in doing this the films effectively disembody their spectator.
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Please understand that there was no talk of discharging me; no talk of demobilising me; no talk even of disembodying me.
Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
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And your disembodying yourself, darling, is only a question of time.
The Creators A Comedy
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It seems more sensible to disembody it and focus attention on meanings and the codes producing them.
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So he must find a way of disembodying and of attachment to some force swift as lightning, of which there are plenty in the spaces when the world has ceased to be a world.
Among the Forces
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Is there a danger that that can disembody the worship experience by simply turning people into passive watchers of the screen.
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To disembody heads of beloved television characters.
Books
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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.
Style in Fiction
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You seem to disembody them of their original meaning.
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Or perhaps the hip-hop ‘nation’ has managed to de-essentialize and disembody blackness, while simultaneously solidifying its immanence.
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It is worthy of remark that both lycanthropists and witches ascribed the power of disembodying themselves to the use of ointments.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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Tumults were spreading throughout the kingdom, from the disembodying of the militia, and the discharge of seamen and sailors without pay; the treaty with France and Spain was not ratified; no commercial alliance was adjusted with
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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The disembodying of the militia at the close of the war (1763) had restored the Major (a new Cincinnatus) to a life of agriculture.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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A disembodying experience, the next morning my scribbled notes appeared to read Bjork against the machine.
Modiba: Global Fest 7.0: Sounds from every corner
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A further development in the process of disembodying the medical encounter is that clinical examination need no longer be negotiated through a body-to-body interface.
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The austerity that has made desire philosophically acceptable is conspicuously absent from pleasure; pleasure is harder to disembody.
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But mist in a moonlight forest is even more disembodying than mist on a moonlight sea.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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The post-Cartesian theoretical move in this regard is to avoid mentalist discourses that reify or disembody such shared resources and thereby bifurcate the dynamically embodied person.
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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?
The Bandwidth of Big Hair
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She also sees the desire to articulate color in words as an attempt to disembody women from menstruation, their bodily function.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.
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And language has the power to disembody that which was previously claimed as true, but has now become inconvenient.
