intangibles

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These serve to highlight the central enigma of the Vatican�the headquarters of a huge, cumbrous international bureaucracy that nevertheless administers the intangibilities of the spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

He uses symbolism, hieroglyphics, simplification, expresses cerebral intangibilities, "models the atmosphere" by leaving holes in matter.

From Time Magazine Archive

The delicious moments are when the intangibilities prevail and pervade and possess.

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona

In vain he assures his would-be friends that the intangibilities with which he deals have a value of their own.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

I was but a thin, loose-jointed boy at the time—fond of the pretty intangibilities of romance, and of dreaming when broad awake; and, woful change!

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous