palpable presence
Example Sentences
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Underneath the digital artifice, Chaplin’s eyes flash with hot conviction and palpable presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
"The Body Double" makes the original Rosanna a palpable presence in the mind of the novel's protagonist, who, like the heroine in "Rebecca," is never named, but speaks in the first person.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2020
But, as the Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer wrote in his review, they made “every word a palpable presence, which is something you can’t say about most conservatory opera performances.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
She has a specific style, a palpable presence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2018
The Douvres to the solitary shipwrecked sailor is the visible and palpable presence of death, the extinction of all hope of reaching land.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
