impalpable
Example Sentences
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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
I had been pushed and pulled by the dominant forces of that place, some impalpable and some visible, as it formed and forced me into the imperfect person who eventually became a mother.
From Salon • May 2, 2020
The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020
And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.