Some of us first meet our best friends as disembodied text on a glowing plane.
In a commercial for Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance, disembodied voices discuss some awful event.
For small-scale sculptures in the early 1990s, Mr. Othoniel made disembodied orifices from wax and sulfur.
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For many concerned residents, that is not good enough: merely preserving a disembodied heritage for tourists.
MI5 witnesses appear and give evidence - albeit as a disembodied voice from behind a thick curtain.
Instead I discovered hard-working, well intentioned people that had unintentionally allowed a disembodied demon into their midst: Ambiguity.
"It seems incredibly remarkable that these foetuses are making sense out of this sound that is really kind of disembodied, " says Moon.
After all, I'd seen those TV ads where the disembodied hand watched a movie and then looked up a local seafood restaurant.
Another remarkable image depicts a dimple-cheeked prostitute, her head and torso poked through a door, like a disembodied ghost in a black-and-white movie.
This, the old man explained, was Mars, and the blue globes were the disembodied souls and intellects of Martians who had lived long ago.
Mr Menand, a frequent magazine writer as well as a professor of English, zestfully adopts the contemporary biographical practice of not treating thinkers as disembodied intelligences.
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Thomas Edison thought radio would deliver the best teachers to every classroom in the country, but students didn't warm to a disembodied voice on a speaker.
Many do not even open their eyes, though disembodied eyes often float through Redon's early works either as deep pools of introspection or as agents of discomfort.
The imagery was of a lonely freighter out there somewhere in the dark, with Winchell's disembodied voice floating out of the blackness, like a rumor, a message in a bottle.
This gives them the legal protection to tell those disembodied voices on the quarterly earnings calls that there are limits to what sacrifices will be made at the altar of more-money-now.
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However, I found the bobbing, disembodied head of Lykka -- an animated image of MacSpeech CEO Andrew Taylor's pet Golden Retriever, which floats in the feedback palette -- disconcerting and somewhat creepy.
The album's lone voice comes from a disembodied robot, introduced briefly on the second track, "Vio vorum sma, " more as a narrator than a singer. (Think Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" from OK Computer).
Two veiled, nearly full-length figures are Fayet's wife and daughter, while portraits in black of Fayet, his sons, Camille, and a number of musicians (including Robert Schumann) find their way into the scene as disembodied apparitions.
As we scan the crowd, our gaze is akin to that of the costumed characters on the viewing platform at right, but quickly shifts to eye level as the foreground gives way to some of Ensor's most frightening and crudely painted figures a top-hatted skeleton, a swollen prelate, ghoulish clowns, and grimacing, disembodied masks who threaten to spill into our space.
We hung with Wayne Coyne and LeVar Burton, got animated with John Hodgman, flew drones with Chris Anderson, went behind the scenes at Improv Everywhere, rode some crazy hacked bikes in Boston, played classic pinball, spoke to a disembodied robotic head, went ghost hunting, solved a few mysteries and even discovered the true meaning of the holidays (it's presents, by the way).
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