In numerous palpable ways, he has come to occupy a more hallowed, almost sacrosanct, position in the imagination of black readers and writers than he ever enjoyed among the audiences of his day — eclipsing in the twenty-first century his closest mentors, competitors, and peers.
But I fear he is wrong again -- this time in less palpable ways.
After 9/11, life in America changed in a few palpable ways: you needed I.D. to get into an office building, and boarding an airplane became an ordeal.
The drama does such a fine job of creating charged atmospheres and rendering these characters' mental states in textured and palpable ways that I can't wait to see how "True Detective" Season 2 (one of Twitter's greatest hashtags) will attempt to match the accomplishments of the first season (this "Top of the Lake" duo was my sincere suggestion).
To the degree we are willing to give up our old stale stories of 'not good enough,' is to the degree we begin to experience in the most palpable ways, the infinite blessings that come from 'leaving it on the field.' What compares with the exhilarating experience of knowing, just knowing that you've done your best?
So you have in a palpable way, and with wry flair ("things are always confusing in Yemen"), captured the feverish atmosphere now reigning in the international newsroom.
I had also hoped, more simply, that I had presented in a palpable way the feel of a particular set of lives in a particular time and place, both of them facing an assortment of moral quandaries, and that I had done so in convincing, perhaps, if I was lucky, even in moving voices.
"It's unusual for people in our field to have an experience that makes their messages come to life in the palpable way this did".
The parental sense of not having a relationship with the child that feels or is perceived to be "special" in some palpable way is rightly a focus for clinical intervention.
