All 4 Uses of
intangible
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things; or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now, sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain; or because Hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant; it is certain that she had ready and fairly requited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with…†
Chpt 5
- Whenever that look appeared in her wild, bright, deeply black eyes, it invested her with a strange remoteness and intangibility: it was as if she were hovering in the air, and might vanish, like a glimmering light that comes we know not whence and goes we know not whither.†
Chpt 6
- This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.†
Chpt 19
- Pearl either saw and responded to her mother's feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister.†
Chpt 22 *
Definition:
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(intangible) incapable of being perceived by the senses; or something that is hard to identify