The grief remained tangible with Carter when he was the final addition for the championship run of the Mets, the way Dave DeBusschere had been for the 1969-70 Knicks.
According to Matthew Dennison in the Times: "What exonerates this structurally imperfect book is its tangible emotion: John's grief as he witnesses Mary's 'disappearance' and the author's intense love for the county of his birth".
A thematic companion piece to Lars von Trier's Melancholia, this eerily affecting oddity posits a world in which mankind's senses are slowly shutting down, with the initial loss of smell provoking outpourings of Proustian grief as tangible memory evaporates like perfume on the breeze.
But the sense of an opportunity spurned compounds the grief which was tangible when the Liverpool manager, Jürgen Klopp, arrived, shell-shocked, to discuss it all.
Thandi, Clemmons's narrator, carefully reeling after the death of her mother, occupies a voice so clear that she, and her grief, feel immediately tangible.
"We often talk about children as the ultimate victims of this crisis, but for parents who feel they have failed their children, the grief can be tangible.
The country's grief was both palpable and tangible.
The presents were tangible expressions of love and sorrow in response to intangible grief.
Those are tangible gestures – the equivalent of bringing grief-stricken neighbours meals to sustain them, rather than sending a hastily-written card.
Given a visual flourish by director Michael Barker-Caven, the final scene restores a more tangible sense of two people whose shared experience of grief cannot unite them, only push them further apart.
