Tommy is a corporeal presence, and he is not the only dead person who resurfaces in the play.

Remnants of the idea of a corporeal presence can be found in Animarum cibus.

Before he became fully aware that he was not still dreaming, some part of his distracted mind could not help noticing the reassuring solidity of Louisa's corporeal presence.

"Not as such, I'll admit, although the community was blessed by the presence, the corporeal presence, of the god and his servants."

She would dissolve in the glare of flashbulbs, her corporeal presence dissipating ever outward in reproductions transmitted by newspapers, magazines and TV.

Michael holds Howard by the upper arms, to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips, and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment.

Set directly on the floor, unframed, they invited the viewer to cross a rudimentary threshold, acknowledging the corporeal presence of a viewing body without offering any concessions to illusion.

I have used cowhide as a means to subvert expected associations with corporeal presence, femininity, sexuality and vulnerability.

I saw the chuckling Angel slayer with his face veiled, and the corporeal presence of Swindells upheld amidst the laughter of the spheres.

Though Mary's corporeal presence is quadrupled, the audience's knowledge of her interior life is not.