impalpable

Example Sentences

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“Many physicists did not like it because they called it impalpable and a little bit mystical,” Nesteruk told Salon in a phone interview.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

But how the squishy, pinkish-gray, wrinkled mass of the physical brain gives rise to these impalpable experiences remains a mystery.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2022

The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020

And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright