impalpability
- a word derived from impalpable.
Example Sentences
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In his new show at the Reese Palley Gallery, his work, which once was austere almost to the point of impalpability, has taken on a peculiar density and resonance.
From Time Magazine Archive
A time for the trying of souls, with none of the glamour and activities of actual warfare, but with perils infinitely more appalling in their insidiousness and impalpability.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
The spirit finds Dante alive in the flesh and he in turn on account of the impalpability of the shade clasps only empty air.
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)
Not often subtle in impulse or recondite in mood, his art has nothing of the impalpability, the drifting, iridescent vapours of Debussy, nothing of the impenetrable backgrounds of Brahms.
From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence
The dry air seemed to dissipate all noxious emanations and decay—the very dust itself in its fine impalpability was volatile with a spicelike piquancy, and left no stain.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret
