impalpable

Example Sentences

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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

I had been pushed and pulled by the dominant forces of that place, some impalpable and some visible, as it formed and forced me into the imperfect person who eventually became a mother.

From Salon • May 2, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020

Reviewing the 2014 production in The New York Times, Ben Brantley likened it to “a precise worldly expression of something impalpable and divine.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017

It was exactly as if he was invisible, inaudible, impalpable.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman