Sentence examples for intangible in from inspiring English sources
"The big intangible in all this is the state and federal government.
Their stormy relationship is a critical intangible in the drama over whether CBS will keep Mr. Letterman.
Instead, "Awkward" is a wry show about longing — for love, certainly, but also for consistency, that great intangible in the ever-morphing world of high school life.
But momentum is an important intangible in a pennant race, and the last thing a hot team wants is an extended, unplanned break.
The physicist Steven Weinberg once remarked that a racehorse breeder who says a horse is "beautiful" is just saying that this horse has something intangible in common with horses that have won lots of races.
There's something reassuringly definite about a number, something so solid and real (65% of people! You can't argue with that!), especially in an area such as mental health, which is so very difficult to measure, so intangible in its very nature.
Intimidation has always been one of the major intangibles in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
It is also applied to intangibles: in an article about Abu Ghraib prison, The Washington Post headlined "Usual Military Checks and Balances Went Missing".
Although Tebow has put up cartoonish statistics and established off-the-charts intangibles in college, experts say that his professional future is blurry.
He might need at least another performance like Thursday's, when he hit three of his first five shots, found seams in the defense and even supplied some intangibles in the second quarter.
Many of these tales touch on how we are constantly forced to put dollar values on the tangibles and intangibles in our lives, and how those decisions are shaped by our feelings.
