palpable presence

Her anger against him was almost like a palpable presence between them in the dark, glowing room.

Advice, cash, munitions aren't enough; our palpable presence is the point.

The silence of the studio seemed to gather body, so that it became an almost palpable presence.

Heavy as a palpable presence it pressed upon them; it lapped them round; the fumes of it mounted to their brains.

That is to say, they took the assumption of youth for granted in the palpable presence of fifty.