The concerns that the speech-event would feed that narrative were palpable.
Interwoven through this dazzling narrative is the palpable, all too human, presence of boredom.
The electricity of being part of a schism in UK politics that could alter the narrative forever is palpable.
Reviewing the performance in The New York Times, Allan Kozinn wrote, "Mr. Logan's music -- a volatile mixture of angularity, harmonic haziness and expressive dissonance tempered with openly tonal sections -- adds a palpable dramatic dimension to the narrative".
The book's portrait of California's evaporating innocence, and its increasing allure as a haven for extreme behavior (Mr. Parker gives Andy a chance to slug Charles Manson), are made palpable by the time-lapse narrative structure.
By the end of this surreal narrative, there's a palpable sorrow in these troubled, disembodied souls, forever confined in the closets of the subconscious.
The way that he captured these imaginary figures on a beach--he gave them a palpable sense of reality, of movement, narrative, or whatnot, and grounded them in a space--a door--which is real.
For Malcolm the biographical enterprise is always charged, the stakes are always high; a palpable sense of the forbidden propels her narrative forward.
In the pale update, nearly every major character dies and comes back to life at least once and a convoluted narrative yields not a single, palpable moment of drama.
More than in an illustrated children's story, the hand of the author is palpable in these books — orchestrating, posing, imparting motion, feeling, and narrative.
