impalpable

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“Many physicists did not like it because they called it impalpable and a little bit mystical,” Nesteruk told Salon in a phone interview.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

A sense conundrum: blue as Summer sky Yet hazy, thin, impalpable, a clair- Obscur of dreamy stuff some latter-day Tech-savvy alchemist might think to brew Or strange sea-beast secrete within its shell.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2022

Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

The smell and taste of things, Proust wrote, hold in the “tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection.”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

From where he stood he could see the whole valley through an impalpable mist that rose from the earth the night rain had soaked.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende