Sentence examples for palpable things from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Marriage to God is a palpable thing for them, and divorce is not an option.

Although power is not a visible and palpable thing, the nurses experienced it when they were able to care for their clients based on their clinical judgment (which definitely arose from their professional knowledge and skills) and observed effective outcomes for their clients.

"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".