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  • The company's most valuable intangible asset is strong brand reputation.
    intangible = non-physical
  • It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun.  (source)
    intangible = something that is hard to identify
  • They are the highest reality......The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.†  (source)
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  • He spoke of God reaching into the world through miracles and the intangible blessings that give men the strength to outlast their sorrows.†  (source)
  • Leon led the doctor upstairs who descended some while later intangibly enlarged by his professional encounter with the core of all their concerns.†  (source)
  • Grief, terror, love, longing-these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.†  (source)
    intangibles = characteristics that are not capable of being touched, or not easily understood so there is question of their value or reality
  • Pearl either saw and responded to her mother's feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister.†  (source)
  • Intangible.†  (source)
  • His face was such a long upper-lipped Irish prototype that it verged on a joke, and he exuded sadness—something intangibly rumpled, exhausted and resigned that caused me to reflect with a twinge of pain on these lonesome office drinking bouts, the twilight sessions with Yeats and Hopkins, the bleak subway commute to Ozone Park.†  (source)
  • Although most people laughed when Lacy told them her husband's job involved putting a price on joy, it was simply what economists did-find value for the intangibles in life.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • Secret, maybe, inside, intangible.†  (source)
  • Everything he said sounded intangibly appropriate.†  (source)
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