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

But how the squishy, pinkish-gray, wrinkled mass of the physical brain gives rise to these impalpable experiences remains a mystery.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2022

Afterward, as in Vienna, property relations were forever altered, which had an impalpable but unmistakable effect on attitudes.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 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

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