Sentence examples for palpable stake from inspiring English sources

All that gives Sokolove a palpable stake in the story, and makes the book as much a personal memoir as it is equal parts admiring profile (including a frank section on Volpe's gradual self-acceptance as a gay man), tribute to the power of arts education and jeremiad on the evaporation of middle-class opportunity.

These moments of tenderness and lament, so simply declared, arrive with an uncommon force, a function of Bolaño's ability to invest his stories with palpable significance, even though what is at stake may remain mysterious.

For Malcolm the biographical enterprise is always charged, the stakes are always high; a palpable sense of the forbidden propels her narrative forward.

The stakes are high, the risk and uncertainty is palpable and all of this creates intense pressure throughout the company.

The Bourne movies put identifiable human stakes into the action equation, along with a sense of palpable moral outrage, politics and, under Mr. Greengrass's kinetic watch, increased torque.

There was a palpable glamour to microfilming in those early days... a hot chemical whiff of cinematography and of high-stakes intelligence work".

Sepetys writes these scenes with rawness and palpable emotional unease; most daughters fear they will become like their mothers, but for the daughters of prostitutes the stakes are momentous.

Palpable nonsense.