Sentence examples for is an almost physical from inspiring English sources

There is an almost physical hatred between the two men.

You could even say that the book itself is an almost physical demonstration of his dissipation.

Trying to understand Patrick Cohen is an almost physical challenge—I have to concentrate my mental energy and then push with all my might, straining to make out the words the way one would to lift a dumbbell.

There is an almost physical urge to turn on the television, or to check the smartphone.

These are heavily capitalized businesses where there's an almost physical engagement.

"It was an almost physical reaction when she asked me to write it, because I knew that just writing the essay was hard enough for me," she said.

It didn't go all the way — the sense of form stayed intact, with traded four-bar solos, preordained surges or dropouts, musicians joining songs and leaving them at appointed times — but there was an almost physical sense of challenge there.

The stench of cat urine was an almost-physical entity, pushing against the piles of garbage and crusted-over cat food in myriad dishes.

There is an almost palpable, physical sense of relief with the confirmation that the end of the Bush era is at hand.

But when poetry lays its hand on our shoulder we are, to an almost physical degree, touched and moved.

Lorentz invariance is an almost universal assumption for modern physical theories, such as quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, the Standard Model of particle physics, and general relativity.