This yearning is especially tangible in Friedrich's 1822 "Woman at the Window," which shows his wife, her back to us, straining delicately to see out of a window narrowed by shutters.
The notion of an occupied apartment as evidence of a life lived — or here of a life disrupted, displaced and resumed — is especially tangible in an apartment that is emptied of life and, as such, a kind of memorial if not a tomb.
Adding to the jangling effect, Haas & Hahn has covered the interior of the Storefront's distinctively flexible space, designed in 1994 by Vito Acconci and Steven Holl, with their bright geometries, making especially tangible the implicit argument in their work: what feeds the eye also feeds the soul.
If you have nothing else tangible in the pipeline, and especially if you have no idea what career you would like to go for, then I would encourage you to finish your PhD (provided your supervisor thinks you have got good chances of success).
The legacy of Ion Creangă was also tangible in the Soviet Union, and especially in the Moldavian SSR (which, as the larger section of Bessarabia, had been part of interwar Greater Romania, and later became independent Moldova).
It is true – the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have helped developing countries such as Zimbabwe to achieve many tangible results especially in the fields of education and to some extent health.
Mr. Ashcroft made a point that far more learned and impassioned laments over the loss of the remnants of Iraq's past have either overlooked or taken too much for granted: that the past, especially as made tangible in its artifacts and surviving texts, has the power to inspire the present and the future.
As well as grand visions, Thursday's meeting must deliver tangible results - especially in the critical area of world trade.
The acid test of international affairs, perhaps especially in the Middle East, is in the tangible outcomes of policy, and so far - surge or no surge - the evidence is not promising.
