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

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 smell and taste of things, Proust wrote, hold in the “tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection.”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

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

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

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