Her pretty gray-blue eyes no longer spit fire.

Several actors auditioned for the part.

True reality is subetheric and not perceptible through our etheric senses, though we get hints of synchronicities (apparent coincidences mediated by nonlocal communication). Subetheric reality is, of course, nonmaterial.

Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.