Sentence examples for a much less tangible from inspiring English sources

But if someone feels violated by an image or a set of words or a curriculum that is not itself violent, then we are in a much less tangible realm.

The allegations are such that it is open to a plaintiff to sue not only the primary investigator and others directly involved in the research but also those with a much less tangible relationship to the research subject.

Belief in answers can get you through your early days, while the belief in questions, which is so much less tangible, takes a long time to arrive at.

"Negotiations" have been much less tangible in reality than is depicted in the press.

This idea is known as group selection, and it's an explanation that most evolutionary biologists now dismiss, because the advantages of generosity are much less tangible than the benefits of selfishness.

While these benefits are relatively measurable, the value of privacy involved in disclosing the information is much less tangible, making it hard to design and evaluate information systems that manage personal information.

If you talk to them for long enough, you get the distinct feeling it is not just their jobs that hang in the balance, but the loss of something much less tangible — the ability of doctors everywhere to exercise their professional judgment.

But then there is also something much less tangible at work.

Similarly, whereas handing over a tip with cash once meant physically feeling the money as it left your wallet, digital payments systems obfuscate the act of paying into something much less tangible.

Our more recent efforts at setting national goals, by contrast, have been far different and much less tangible.

At their joint press conference today in his presidential palace, Assad and Ahmadinejad went to great lengths to scuttle any notion that a year's worth of carefully orchestrated American and French diplomacy designed to wean Syria away from Iran has had any visible, much less, tangible affect.