Zakrevksy pointedly replies, "You are quite sure about that?" Shostakovich, with unmarked but somehow palpable trembling, returns, "Well, you see, they were sometimes rather crowded gatherings.
And so Spurs are in the quarter-finals of a tournament that – pace the European Champions – contains no genuinely intimidating opponents and with the prospect of Gareth Bale, a palpable absence, returning.
Especially in Quiché, in the mountainous villages where Mr. Pérez Molina served during the 1980s, when some of the war's worst atrocities were committed, there is a palpable fear of a return to violence.
While Romney was not mentioned by name, his presence – and that of his tax returns – was palpable when the president dove into his message of economic fairness with a call for higher taxes on wealthy Americans.
In 2004, there was an optimism surrounding education, a sense that things were getting better, and there appeared to be a palpable sense of a returning respect for teachers and for the job they did.
That anything-goes atmosphere was palpable at this season's return of On Top, in early June.
3 This is encouraging news that should reassure that small percentage of patients who do return with a palpable node months or years after a negative sentinel node biopsy.
He has returned with a palpable sense of relief and a determination to say nothing wrong.
The recent shift is largely anecdotal but palpable: young El Paso natives are returning home as new jobs and a burgeoning restaurant and night life scene make the city more hospitable.
For the current President Bush, a keen student of what happened to his father, the prospects for re-election may rest to a substantial degree on whether the economic woes of his first three years in office give way fairly quickly to a palpable sense that prosperity has returned, or soon will.
