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A nation is a difficult thing to grasp: unpalpable, mythic, flighty.

From Time • Jun. 29, 2012

It was merely that the scene had recalled to him anew some of those unpalpable truths which the optimist is always much too ready to forget.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

These calces therefore, when mixed with the enamel flux, are melted in crucibles, once or oftener, and the deep coloured opake glass, thence resulting, is ground into unpalpable powder, and used for enamel.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

Our Republic finds itself to- day assailed by a monster as dangerous, unpalpable, soft, horrible but strong—strong as hands of iron.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie