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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

But even out of the mouths of their soundest reasoners it is easy to demonstrate the futility, the impalpability of their axioms in general.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

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)

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

Perhaps one day, between them, they would break down the barrier, the strength of which seemed to lie in its very flimsiness, its impalpability.

From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)