impalpable

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From Scientific American

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

From New York Times

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