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
They represent metaphorically, however, certain important qualities of verse which, with the exception of rime, cannot from their very impalpability be formally explained, but can only be suggested and partially described.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
But, even through evidence afforded by themselves against themselves, it is easy to convict these à priori reasoners of the grossest unreason—it is easy to show the futility—the impalpability of their axioms in general.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.
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
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
