But the strain is getting palpable and the fissures are growing deeper.
Needless to say, it was a huge deal: The convention hall was standing-room only, Facebook's stock got a palpable boost in after-hours trading, and it seems like every other sentence that came out of Zuck's mouth was made into a press headline.
You got a palpable sense that everybody is waiting for him to get into the race, and all of the candidates know they are going to have to react to this Texan who will walk in with boots on and bravado in hand.
They have become palpable.
Early adopters of Google Glass get a palpable thrill out of saying "OK Glass" before speaking commands to Google's voice-activated augmented eyewear.
But we get a palpable sense of the woman she was: shy, big-hearted, hard on herself at times, occasionally drunk.
The society wants to create a museum where schoolchildren and other visitors can get a palpable sense of the stagecoach era and the role a tavern like the Merchants and Drovers played.
And because nearly everything on display comes from India, which is 82 percent Hindu, visitors can also get a palpable sense of the completely fluid fusion of faith, visual creativity and daily life that saturates Indian culture.
To get a palpable sense of this delight, which was at the very core of Muir's life, it would be helpful to supplement Worster's account with another new book, Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy, by Bonnie J. Gisel, with images by Stephen J. Joseph (Heyday Books, $45).
These tensions are only going to get more palpable if corporate power waxes unchecked and if, as the French economist Thomas Piketty has recently insisted, income inequality continues to increase in the decades to come.
