The tension was palpable.
I met him only after I became master of St Peter's College, Oxford, but he had a palpable gift for friendship and within minutes of our first encounter he was coming up with schemes and plots to help the college.
While her and her father's book addresses the individual necessity and pursuit of forgiveness, Mpho says it is also a fundamental part of the future of South Africa, the country she still lives in, and said there are still palpable resentments that need to be addressed.
Everything was done to avert that prospect and when it was called off the relief in Downing Street was palpable: "The news was announced this afternoon and represents a massive blow to [Arthur] Scargill," read the "secret and personal"' daily coal report for Wednesday 24 October.
The passion for books is palpable, and the life of the mind celebrated whether fiction or cookbooks, poetry, biography or science, or politics, or philosophy or architecture or history – and always an air of anticipation, especially this year when the referendum on Scottish independence will be just a month away, and the festival an arena for debate just as it was last year.
In particular, the introductions to both parts betray a much more generous sense of lyricism, enveloped in a palpable sense of mystery.
Certainly in Sydney I think it is having a palpable impact on young people trying to get into the housing market, and I think that is highly unfortunate".
Such alternative outcomes are articulated in a palpable sense of marginalisation among Ukip supporters on the streets of Margate.
Concerns about the aims of expanding Kremlin-backed media outlets are especially palpable in Russia's EU member neighbours, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which all have significant Russian-speaking minorities, as does Ukraine.
This small gift, coming as it does after the harrowing things he has experienced, is transmuted into an almost miraculous event, and his giddiness at the prospect of satiety is palpable.
Looking at town halls of the past - from Victorian Britain to modern functionalism - there is a palpable sense of pomp and authority.
