In the opening minutes, that possibility seemed tangible.
The possibility of flipping the House needed to seem tangible.
Somehow, sitting at my desktop computer and seeing the Philharmonic play live in North Korea, where the Internet is banned, seemed tangible evidence of barriers falling.
As the toll mounted — at least 68 were reported dead by late Sunday, with several people still unaccounted for — the potential for even greater loss of life seemed tangible.
But what seemed tangible from a distance, on closer inspection very often melted into thin air".Most books about this country tend to dwell on the Khmer Rouge years between 1975 and 1979, when nearly 2m people were killed in South-East Asia's Great Leap Forward.
Even for Gruden, who describes himself as "not a deep guy," memories nearly two years old suddenly seem tangible, memories of his greatest night as a head coach, Jan . 26 , 2003when his Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII.
The nervous tension in the room seemed tangible as students handed in their homework, a detailed list of their personal goals for the semester: talk to a stranger, go to professors' office hours, sound more confident on the phone, offer three opinions in class, greet an authority figure, learn to enter conversations.
His striking sense of color and light, and his inventiveness, allow Zoraidez to create projects that seem tangible, yet also strangely contrived.
Amid head-spinning talk of trillion-dollar debt and credit-default swaps, old-fashioned farming seems reassuringly tangible.
But it's also because the idea of family offers a kind of bond that seems more tangible and grounded than participation in either the abstract, remote and problematic entity known as the United States of America or any of the various forms of black nationalism.
