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  • Sometimes his happiness was so palpable he felt he could actually hold it in his hands.†   (source)
  • As we were seconds away from taking the leap, the multitude of prayers that left the plane were palpable.†   (source)
  • Her lawyer objected to the crude questions posed to Walter by the husband's attorney about the nature of his friendship, sparing him from providing any details, but when he left the courtroom the anger and animosity toward him were palpable.†   (source)
  • You could hear the man's palpable relief at having found a topic he was comfortable with.†   (source)
  • The bond was too palpable to dismiss.†   (source)
  • Everyone immediately ran forward, forming a packed crowd around her, a palpable excitement hovering in the air.†   (source)
  • His body radiates a faint but palpable heat in the chair beside her.†   (source)
  • The admiration in the voice was palpable.†   (source)
  • By the end of the day, the palpable shift in the jury's mood had alarmed Sonny Seiler.†   (source)
  • The preceding night a fog as palpable as cotton had hung suspended over Island County.†   (source)
  • You felt a palpable sense of relief when you gave up and let yourself fall away from the table and wound up in the kitchen getting something, or in the bathroom running the water and splashing it on your face.†   (source)
  • "Good," the old man said as the tension in the common room ebbed palpably, "excellent."†   (source)
  • But still, we are forced to admit that in this woeful world, there exist objects with an almost palpable energy of menace ...spatulas that seem cursed, couches that contain literal and metaphorical stains of the past, houses that seem to perpetually groan and moan for the sins contained in their environs.†   (source)
  • In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky.†   (source)
  • His relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • His exhaustion palpable, his fear overwhelming.†   (source)
  • Her relief at the sight of me was palpable.†   (source)
  • It was a palpable truth, like a sour taste on the tongue tip.†   (source)
  • It was as if she'd entered a comforting dream and for another moment she luxuriated in it, but then her features hardened with determination and she braced herself against the rich, almost palpable colors around her.†   (source)
  • The anticipation was palpable.†   (source)
  • The blacktop was covered shoulder-to-shoulder for more than a half mile, and the raw emotion of the outpouring was palpable.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's curiosity was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • Though the sun is beginning to set, its warmth is still palpable, the air lazy and mild.†   (source)
  • The pain in his father's words was palpable.†   (source)
  • This was a tremendous advance, because those precancerous cells weren't detectable otherwise: they caused no physical symptoms and weren't palpable or visible to the naked eye.†   (source)
  • And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their tangibility promised to us, wrongly ....wrongly, an immortality.†   (source)
  • The pain in his voice was palpable—and faked, Clary thought bitterly.†   (source)
  • His pity was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • Narmonov's hands flew up in the air, his hopeful demeanor gone in an instant, replaced with palpable wrath.†   (source)
  • In some ways, although I had escaped the communist cell, I had, in so many other ways, stepped right into a cell of another kind—a world of homesickness and heartache, of pain that was palpable, of sickness that was real.†   (source)
  • His alertness right now is palpable and painful; he's like a goblet of hot nitroglycerin.†   (source)
  • There was a palpable sense of trust and camaraderie between the players and their coach, and an equally powerful sense of fragility in all the tension and long silences.†   (source)
  • The almost palpable sense of relief Donna radiated.†   (source)
  • Her hostility was palpable.†   (source)
  • Andy's palpable hunger for climbing, his unalloyed enthusiasm for the mountains, made me wistful for the period in my own life when climbing was the most important thing imaginable, when I charted the course of my existence in terms of mountains I'd ascended and those I hoped one day to ascend.†   (source)
  • His voice trailed off, but the anger coating them had given the air a palpable charge.†   (source)
  • There was a moment in which our locus of pettiness and shame seemed palpably to expand, a cartoon of self-awareness.†   (source)
  • She had been almost jealous of the pain it wrought so palpably in Robert.†   (source)
  • As you drive through the streets of Pueblo, you can feel the change coming, something palpable in the air.†   (source)
  • There is an embarrassed silence in which the words her reputation are as palpable as if someone had hung a wedding dress in the air.†   (source)
  • See how palpable it is?†   (source)
  • Slowly, with a palpable reluctance that warmed some of the cold emptiness in the center of my body, Jared let his arms slide away.†   (source)
  • Will felt the hair on his neck prickle at the palpable, almost physical dislocation of air and space, a tremor that promised violence.†   (source)
  • The pain felt like a gift, a blessing so palpable that it rose up her forearms and into her chest.†   (source)
  • 'Well,' Jamie said as a palpable awkwardness settled over us, and I wondered what exactly he knew about our family, if perhaps my very existence had come as a surprise.†   (source)
  • As they throw their heads back, shouting lyrics toward the far-off, recessed lighting, their release is palpable.†   (source)
  • Saphira's relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • He's not there, but the tension among the menagerie men is palpable.†   (source)
  • And because it dealt so palpably with him and her, there was nothing simpler than to complement words with touch.†   (source)
  • The ugliness they left was palpable.†   (source)
  • The leader stared at the palpable sword swishing unclutched at his men, then laughed aloud.†   (source)
  • They also lead to a loss of palpable pulses in the extremities—which is why the psychiatrist couldn't find one in his wrist.†   (source)
  • I felt a palpable sense of evil and I struck back with my tongue, even though I knew that argument was futile.†   (source)
  • I don't know what's more palpable—the whiskey leaking from my pores or the smell of panic in the room.†   (source)
  • Several of the demons gasped, and a palpable tension saturated the air.†   (source)
  • His relief when he saw me was palpable.†   (source)
  • But on other occasions the simmering passion is so palpable that the American people sense it just by watching JFK and Jackie stand side by side.†   (source)
  • And he was as good as his word: his pleasure in her company was palpable to all.†   (source)
  • But the level of panic in the stale air was palpable, as inaudible voices echoed through the terminal, announcing delay after delay.†   (source)
  • The excitement was now palpable.†   (source)
  • We had surrounded Miss Wren and were pressing in on her, our desperation palpable.†   (source)
  • It also provides palpable excuses for anyone wishing to be early or late, or having arrived at the right destination or the wrong one.†   (source)
  • Fear as palpable as a cold front washed over the demigod army.†   (source)
  • Palpable though writ small, the story in Athens is the story everywhere, always: the human condition.†   (source)
  • His grief was a palpable thing.†   (source)
  • Especially with palpable sexual tension thrown in.†   (source)
  • It has moved tangible, palpable, into her brain, the way memory invades the present in those who are old, the way gardens invade houses here, the way her tiny body steps into mine as intimate as anything I have witnessed and I have to force myself to be gentle with this frailty in the midst of my embrace.†   (source)
  • "Nah," I said, "I was just curious:' His disdain for me was palpable.†   (source)
  • When the drinks had first been served to them, ten or fifteen minutes earlier, Lane had sampled his, then sat back and briefly looked around the room with an almost palpable sense of well-being at finding himself (he must have been sure no one could dispute) in the right place with an unimpeachably right-looking girl—a girl who was not only extraordinarily pretty but, so much the better, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt.†   (source)
  • He took Sunny by the hips and with a palpable and surprising gentleness kissed her on the belly.†   (source)
  • The fear, thought Dina, was palpable.†   (source)
  • An immense psychological pressure, palpable and inchoate, was loose in that room.†   (source)
  • Once in a while he tries a bluff, but it is a palpable lie.†   (source)
  • Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and universally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie.†   (source)
  • I did not say this, but the words trembled so palpably on my tongue that to this day I've retained the impression that they were spoken.†   (source)
  • And there were other troubles, more palpable.†   (source)
  • And weirdly often now with me the feeling is that they are staring at us—that in some quite palpable way they precede us.†   (source)
  • Eugene felt an almost palpable aura of a disgrace or sadness that had to be as ever-present as the skin is, of hiding and flaunting together.†   (source)
  • With rumors of violence and military dictatorship rife, Congress determined upon arbitration by a supposedly nonpartisan Electoral Commission—and Lucius Lamar, confident that an objective inquiry would demonstrate the palpable fraud of the Republican case, agreed to this solution to prevent a recurrence of the tragic conflict which had so aged his spirit and broadened his outlook.†   (source)
  • She said nothing of how she disliked the natives, of how the hostility that she could feel as something palpable coming from them against her, affected her; she knew he could be in bed for days yet, and that she would have to do it whether she liked it or not.†   (source)
  • The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.   (source)
    palpable = very apparent
  • The tension in the room was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • It was strange that her own son's delight, his almost palpable euphoria, would make her feel old.†   (source)
  • LUDO BAGMAN: The perils are plentiful, but the prizes are palpable.†   (source)
  • I felt something palpable and helpless in my hands.†   (source)
  • The threat of violence was as palpable as the deepening cold of autumn.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist's loathing for Borg was palpable.†   (source)
  • "He is a spy," Borodin said with palpable irony.†   (source)
  • We met with him in his holding cell; he was palpably anxious.†   (source)
  • It was palpable, as if it were just yesterday, just behind a door.†   (source)
  • I answered no. I remembered palpably that sorrow.†   (source)
  • He hadn't gone over to his mother's house until the early afternoon, and her tension was palpable.†   (source)
  • His eyes met Rufus's; the tension between the two werewolves was as palpable as a live wire.†   (source)
  • The tension around the table was palpable.†   (source)
  • The gloom seemed almost palpable, like a heavy cloth draped over the world.†   (source)
  • Even with the windows of the solar shuttered against the night, the chill in the room was palpable.†   (source)
  • It's only midway through the first week of the program, and the intensity is already palpable.†   (source)
  • His sense of relief was palpable, but Bouchard detected something else.†   (source)
  • Saphira's disapproval was palpable, but she altered her course to resume her attack on Thorn.†   (source)
  • For a moment, they stared at each other, the charge in the air palpable.†   (source)
  • Then fear began to enter, palpable and overwhelming, a fist clenching repeatedly in my chest.†   (source)
  • The chill in the throne room was palpable.†   (source)
  • For a moment he felt almost dizzy, his relief was so palpable.†   (source)
  • The silence between them was palpable as Nasuada considered his request.†   (source)
  • Beside her, Brienne's misery was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • My relief must have been palpable, because a moment later Nate said, 'You know, he's not so bad.†   (source)
  • When work made it necessary to speak to him, her anger was palpable.†   (source)
  • There is a palpable wave of expectation.†   (source)
  • The reek within the Great Hall was palpable by eventide.†   (source)
  • The excitement running through her was palpable.†   (source)
  • A palpable sense of relief rippled through the clanmeet once he had finished.†   (source)
  • The desire to belong is palpable, with everyone looking for connections.†   (source)
  • And the smell wafting off him was palpable even on the block.†   (source)
  • Once past the chamber door, the chill was palpable.†   (source)
  • This idea hangs between us, almost visible, almost palpable: heavy, formless, dark; collusion of a sort, betrayal of a sort.†   (source)
  • The interest around the table sharpened palpably: Some stiffened, others fidgeted, all gazing at Snape and Voldemort.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh had sensed a palpable shift in the atmosphere of the Temple Room, as if all the frustration and pain Peter Solomon had ever felt was now boiling to the surface ....focusing itself like a laser on Mal'akh.†   (source)
  • All I had to do was to imagine them, and how I "knew" them would shimmer around them and through them, a light, an odor, a sound, a taste, a palpability that was all there was to understand about each and every one of them.†   (source)
  • The panic was palpable.†   (source)
  • He was, they decided, not like them at all, and the detached and aloof manner in which he watched the snowfall made this palpable and self-evident.†   (source)
  • Thomas devoured each bite, hunger trumping everything else, the mood of contentment and relief around him palpable.†   (source)
  • The next quarter of a second: There's no bright flash to blind her, and so she can actually see the shock wave spreading outward in a perfect sphere, hard and palpable as a ball of ice.†   (source)
  • Happiness seemed to radiate from Dumbledore like light; like fire: Harry had never seen the man so utterly, so palpably content.†   (source)
  • Kabuo Miyamoto, his net set, his radio off, the fog as palpable as cotton around him, replaced the line he'd left on Carl's boat with a reserve he kept stowed in his galley.†   (source)
  • The tension was palpable; Thomas felt like the air in the room had become glass that could shatter at any second.†   (source)
  • Raven pushes Y.T. through the room ahead of him, like she's a figurehead on his kayak, and everywhere they go, people are shoved out of her way by Raven's almost palpable personal force field.†   (source)
  • Since then, I might have declared that I was "not myself" or "out of my mind" or "beside myself," but the profoundest characteristic of my state of mind was not, in the end, what I did, but how palpably it felt like the real me.†   (source)
  • The duke of Veragua, a direct descendent of Columbus, sat in the fourteenth carriage; the duchess occupied the fifteenth with Bertha Palmer, whose diamonds radiated an almost palpable heat.†   (source)
  • For a long time he sat in this manner and I could all but feel his thoughts, as if they were palpable in the air like smoke.†   (source)
  • The ribbons crushed from the bonnet fell loose and I felt a palpable relief to see the childish dress, those ribbons, and something wonderfully comforting in her arms, a small china doll.†   (source)
  • The smell of water filled my nostrils, its coolness palpable through the close heat of the coffin; and then with the smell of the water was the smell of the deep earth.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw myself in a most palpable vision ascending the altar steps, opening the tiny sacrosanct tabernacle, reaching with monstrous hands for the consecrated ciborium, and taking the Body of Christ and strewing Its white wafers all over the carpet; and walking then on the sacred wafers, walking up and down before the altar, giving Holy Communion to the dust.†   (source)
  • He took several deep breaths in an attempt to calm his frayed nerves, but nothing seemed to still the palpable throb in his hands and arms.†   (source)
  • I doubt Maryse is any fonder of me— Please," Jace said, and though his voice was flat and he spoke quietly, Clary could almost feel, like a palpable thing, the pride he'd had to fight down to say that single word.†   (source)
  • Yes, people talking, eating, the loyal shoppers, they came from other boroughs, other counties, the double-parked cars, the coronary throb of the immediate streets still palpable.†   (source)
  • I could feel the stress coming off of her, palpable, and as my father put a full plate in front of her heaped with meat, potatoes, green beans, and a big hunk of my mother's famous garlic bread, she lost it.†   (source)
  • The heat from the fire pit was palpable even at a distance; for the wildlings, it had to be blistering.†   (source)
  • Her alarm was palpable.†   (source)
  • The tension was palpable.†   (source)
  • Pycelle's fear was palpable.†   (source)
  • Dany marveled at the smoothness of their scales, and the heat that poured off them, so palpable that on cold nights their whole bodies seemed to steam.†   (source)
  • The lack of enthusiasm was palpable.†   (source)
  • And when Nurse Asqual in a panicked voice called out the blood pressure—"systolic of eighty, palpable"—Stone wobbled as if he might faint.†   (source)
  • But now the man's fear was palpable, and their task suddenly seemed much more than a mere waypoint on the road to Walpurgisnacht.†   (source)
  • Just the addition of so many people breathing gave it a totally different feel, some sort of palpable energy that was never there otherwise.†   (source)
  • Behind him, on the cargo seats, he felt the tension between the two men as palpably as the Toyota's unforgiving suspension.†   (source)
  • For obligations were palpable, soundly rooted in reciprocal deeds; possibilities on the other hand were chimeras, flimsy and worthless, dangerous even.†   (source)
  • The terror was palpable, scary.†   (source)
  • The relief is instant and palpable.†   (source)
  • The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.†   (source)
  • The fear and anticipation among the demons was palpable as the huge, dark shape slipped from its perch and advanced warily up the nave.†   (source)
  • While Sophia expected a palpable buzz of interest now that the auction was getting under way, she realized when surveying the room that only a few people seemed to care.†   (source)
  • We never talked about Cora leaving, but as the day grew closer, that shift in the air was more and more palpable, until it was as if I could see my sister extracting herself from us, twisting looseand breaking free, minute by minute.†   (source)
  • And Robert's relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • That John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had died on the same day, and that it was, of all days, the Fourth of July, could not be seen as a mere coincidence: it was a "visible and palpable" manifestation of "Divine favor," wrote John Quincy in his diary that night, expressing what was felt and would be said again and again everywhere the news spread.†   (source)
  • And then and only then did it settle, gather, and focus, on the now, on a moment when the love was so palpable between father and son that the thought that it might end, and this memory be its only legacy, was unacceptable.†   (source)
  • Two days after the funeral, she was moving through the house with a buzzing intensity, the energy coming off of her palpable enough to set your teeth chattering.†   (source)
  • At first Groleo had wanted the dragons caged and Dany had consented to put his fears at ease, but their misery was so palpable that she soon changed her mind and insisted they be freed.†   (source)
  • It was as if a huge pile of black wool had been packed around him and Saphira, and indeed, the darkness seemed to have a weight to it, as if it were a palpable substance pressing against them from all sides.†   (source)
  • But then there was that other thing, the indefinable buzz of people talking and eating and communing, a palpable energy that makes little things like shredded tents or pouring rain or even the end of the world hardly noticeable.†   (source)
  • Blackwood's relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • A lie, a lie, a palpable lie.†   (source)
  • I felt something on my foot, something palpable and heavy, something alive, something present, something breathing, but most seriously of all, something on my foot.†   (source)
  • But touching the place where the child was made it no longer symbolic; it was real and palpable and material.†   (source)
  • I had not realized how real and palpable the spirit world was to them, and even when I heard them voicing their fears, I was more delighted than alarmed.†   (source)
  • The humidity hovered around us in an almost palpable mist, the sun's pale disc hung behind gray clouds that shifted and churned in slow motion.†   (source)
  • The traffic light over the middle of the street a little ahead of where Will Hodge was parked went mindlessly from red to green again and again, and in his memory of its changes time became as palpable as the shiny-topped cars passing under it or the dark upper stories of the buildings on each side of the street.†   (source)
  • I moved through the azaleas cautiously, silently; and for a moment a delicious, almost palpable curiosity had replaced the fear.†   (source)
  • Thus Hodge; who by character and constitution preferred and, for all his seeming insensitivity, immensely enjoyed the useful, immediate, palpable: ruefully smiling to himself at the neatness of phrase in a null and void affidavit, ruefully grinning at the firm, responsible solidity of the newly wired-up round of a chair (the veritable image of his soul: good wire, no loop without its function, a small detail in relation to the whole but necessary, however distasteful to people incline†   (source)
  • There was a vibration of panic in the car; it was almost palpable, like the prickling of hair all over one's body, and in the near-darkness there came a surge of anxious whispering—hoarse, rising, but as incomprehensible as the rustle of an army of leaves.†   (source)
  • Even before I put my father's letter down for the last time, I breathed a delicious sigh and felt the next scene hatching, so palpable I could almost reach up and fondle it, like a fat golden egg in my brain.†   (source)
  • Her absence, after the most complete (or perhaps I should say only) propinquity of flesh in my life, was spooky, almost palpable, and I drowsily realized it had partly to do with the smell of her, which remained like a vapor in the air: a musky genital odor, still provocative, still lascivious.†   (source)
  • All palpable forms of life have failed me.†   (source)
  • Others have come, temporal tempters, With pleasure and power at palpable prlcie.†   (source)
  • "This darkness," he said, "seems jolly palpable."†   (source)
  • The strangeness was grown almost as palpable as phlegm to his breathing.†   (source)
  • A sense almost palpable, as of a leashed and imminent and awful force.†   (source)
  • Without turning to look, David knew himself regarded, so palpable was that gaze, so like a pressure.†   (source)
  • Because her sex was the palpable difference between the familiar and the strange, it seemed to fill the space between us, so that I felt her to be especially female, as I had felt of no woman before.†   (source)
  • But the drops were palpably water, and as they fell, the wind grew stronger and stronger, and suddenly — probably because of the tremendous convection set up by the blazing city — a whirlwind ripped through the park.†   (source)
  • And no one could have known that he had ever looked at her either as, without any semblance of progress in either of them, they draw slowly together as the wagon crawls terrifically toward her in its slow palpable aura of somnolence and red dust in which the steady feet of the mules move dreamlike and punctuate by the sparse jingle of harness and the limber bobbing of jackrabbit ears, the mules still neither asleep nor awake as he halts them.†   (source)
  • Realities warm and palpable.†   (source)
  • He would ruin his new gray broadcloth suit, which would cause him to swear horribly in the morning and tell Ellen at great length how his horse fell off the bridge in the darkness—a palpable lie which would fool no one but which would be accepted by all and make him feel very clever.†   (source)
  • In any case it is impossible that he should fully have believed in his main thesis-believed, that is to say, that for a century or more the entire civilized world had been taken in by a huge and palpable lie which he alone was able to see through.†   (source)
  • For I wanted to see how Mary Carmichael set to work to catch those unrecorded gestures, those unsaid or half-said words, which form themselves, no more palpably than the shadows of moths on the ceiling, when women are alone, unlit by the capricious and coloured light of the other sex.†   (source)
  • He grinned feebly at her, tickled, above his nausea and grief, at the palpable assumption of blind innocence which always heralded her discoveries.†   (source)
  • My faux pas was so palpably obvious, so idiotic and unpardonable, that to ignore it would show me to be an even greater fool, if possible, than I was already.†   (source)
  • He felt no floor under his bare feet; he seemed to walk beneath the palpable weight of the grim turning faces.†   (source)
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