All 4 Uses of
tangible
in
Main Street
- Carol was disappointed—by nothing very tangible.†
Chpt 5 *
- Without understanding when or how, without a tangible change in the stilted intoning of the stage-puppets, she was conscious of another time and place.†
Chpt 17
- They were staggered to learn that a real tangible person, living in Minnesota, and married to their own flesh-and-blood relation, could apparently believe that divorce may not always be immoral; that illegitimate children do not bear any special and guaranteed form of curse; that there are ethical authorities outside of the Hebrew Bible; that men have drunk wine yet not died in the gutter; that the capitalistic system of distribution and the Baptist wedding-ceremony were not known in…†
Chpt 20
- It was tediousness made tangible, a street builded of lassitude and of futility.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(tangible) capable of being touched, or easily understood so there is no question of its value or reality