Sentence examples for palpable thing from inspiring English sources

But it was a palpable thing.

That death, or the risk of it, became a palpable thing again so quickly at Silverstone more than half a century later was the major surprise of the weekend.

Plenty of people say 'I don't fit in in my family,' but the true biological dissonance [of adoption] is a very real and palpable thing, but incomprehensible to those that haven't felt it.

The undercurrents of unease humming through that movie explode in Fred Zinnemann's Act Of Violence, a noir-like piece in which the war is still a living, palpable thing in the minds of a vengeful Robert Ryan and his prey, outwardly respectable, inwardly treacherous Van Heflin.

The Stanford alumni network certainly feels like a real, palpable thing around these parts.

That's a palpable thing that audiences love.

Aristotle, on the other hand, was far more empirical; he was obsessed with categorizing and finding truth in the realm of palpable things.

But the extra money for the Acela Express bought palpable things: speed, greater comfort and quiet, a full meal, two waiters in tailored blue uniforms and a bathroom big enough to permit a change of clothes.

"I do not know why we tend to think so fuzzily in this area," Gould writes, "but one reason must reside in our social and psychic attraction to creation myths in preference to evolutionary stories -- for creation myths... identify heroes and sacred places, while evolutionary stories provide no palpable, particular thing as a symbol for reverence, worship or patriotism".

In many tragedies — certainly in the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles — the gods are indeed all-knowing, are pulling the strings unbeknownst to the mortals whose lives they control: works like the "Oresteia" or the "Oedipus" (whose hero learns, to his horror, that he cannot escape the "plot" the gods have written for him) seem to confirm an invisible but palpable order in things.

But in villages on the front line of what is all but the latest Balkan war, there is a palpable sense that things are on a knife-edge, with fighting as likely to spread as to die down.At the first set-piece ministerial meeting between the European Union and NATO, Macedonia's government was assured of support for its statehood and promised that no one expected it to treat with Albanian gunmen.