Examples of free-floating

• It sits somewhere in the middle, between church and people, as a sort of free-floating structure of ideas.

• More so than the writer, the artist, or even the free-floating intellectual, the scientist's discipline constrained him to retreat from any standpoint.

• They are, or are akin to, free-floating evils.

• Immunohistochemistry experiments were carried out on free-floating sections.

• Not all free-floating voices in the film, however, are endowed with this subversive power.

• It is tempting, then, to settle on music as free-floating, drifting in some unspecified, inter-diegetic territory: there is something signified, but nothing precise or recoverable.

• It seems reasonable to conclude, then, that what makes customary norms eligible for incorporation into a legal system is that they are free-floating.

• The tendency for opinions about democracy-in-practice to be sensitive to the ups-and-downs of the transition does not make relatively free-floating beliefs in democracy-in-principle less real.