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  • As we were seconds away from taking the leap, the multitude of prayers that left the plane were palpable.†   (source)
  • The bond was too palpable to dismiss.†   (source)
  • Her lawyer objected to the crude questions posed to Walter by the husband's attorney about the nature of his friendship, sparing him from providing any details, but when he left the courtroom the anger and animosity toward him were palpable.†   (source)
  • A sense of excitement rose like a palpable cloud over the campsite as the afternoon wore on.†   (source)
  • The admiration in the voice was palpable.†   (source)
  • You could hear the man's palpable relief at having found a topic he was comfortable with.†   (source)
  • By the end of the day, the palpable shift in the jury's mood had alarmed Sonny Seiler.†   (source)
  • You felt a palpable sense of relief when you gave up and let yourself fall away from the table and wound up in the kitchen getting something, or in the bathroom running the water and splashing it on your face.†   (source)
  • His body radiates a faint but palpable heat in the chair beside her.†   (source)
  • It was as if she'd entered a comforting dream and for another moment she luxuriated in it, but then her features hardened with determination and she braced herself against the rich, almost palpable colors around her.†   (source)
  • Though the sun is beginning to set, its warmth is still palpable, the air lazy and mild.†   (source)
  • "Good," the old man said as the tension in the common room ebbed palpably, "excellent."†   (source)
  • His relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • This was a tremendous advance, because those precancerous cells weren't detectable otherwise: they caused no physical symptoms and weren't palpable or visible to the naked eye.†   (source)
  • Her relief at the sight of me was palpable.†   (source)
  • But still, we are forced to admit that in this woeful world, there exist objects with an almost palpable energy of menace …. spatulas that seem cursed, couches that contain literal and metaphorical stains of the past, houses that seem to perpetually groan and moan for the sins contained in their environs.†   (source)
  • Andy's palpable hunger for climbing, his unalloyed enthusiasm for the mountains, made me wistful for the period in my own life when climbing was the most important thing imaginable, when I charted the course of my existence in terms of mountains I'd ascended and those I hoped one day to ascend.†   (source)
  • His exhaustion palpable, his fear overwhelming.†   (source)
  • The pain in his father's words was palpable.†   (source)
  • His alertness right now is palpable and painful; he's like a goblet of hot nitroglycerin.†   (source)
  • As you drive through the streets of Pueblo, you can feel the change coming, something palpable in the air.†   (source)
  • There was a moment in which our locus of pettiness and shame seemed palpably to expand, a cartoon of self-awareness.†   (source)
  • In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky.†   (source)
  • The pain in his voice was palpable—and faked, Clary thought bitterly.†   (source)
  • The anticipation was palpable.†   (source)
  • His pity was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's curiosity was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • It was a palpable truth, like a sour taste on the tongue tip.†   (source)
  • The blacktop was covered shoulder-to-shoulder for more than a half mile, and the raw emotion of the outpouring was palpable.†   (source)
  • The preceding night a fog as palpable as cotton had hung suspended over Island County.†   (source)
  • The ugliness they left was palpable.†   (source)
  • Her hostility was palpable.†   (source)
  • He hadn't gone over to his mother's house until the early afternoon, and her tension was palpable.†   (source)
  • Saphira's relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • I felt a palpable sense of evil and I struck back with my tongue, even though I knew that argument was futile.†   (source)
  • He's not there, but the tension among the menagerie men is palpable.†   (source)
  • The almost palpable sense of relief Donna radiated.†   (source)
  • There was a palpable sense of trust and camaraderie between the players and their coach, and an equally powerful sense of fragility in all the tension and long silences.†   (source)
  • There is an embarrassed silence in which the words her reputation are as palpable as if someone had hung a wedding dress in the air.†   (source)
  • His voice trailed off, but the anger coating them had given the air a palpable charge.†   (source)
  • Fear as palpable as a cold front washed over the demigod army.†   (source)
  • His relief when he saw me was palpable.†   (source)
  • Narmonov's hands flew up in the air, his hopeful demeanor gone in an instant, replaced with palpable wrath.†   (source)
  • I don't know what's more palpable—the whiskey leaking from my pores or the smell of panic in the room.†   (source)
  • In some ways, although I had escaped the communist cell, I had, in so many other ways, stepped right into a cell of another kind—a world of homesickness and heartache, of pain that was palpable, of sickness that was real.†   (source)
  • But the level of panic in the stale air was palpable, as inaudible voices echoed through the terminal, announcing delay after delay.†   (source)
  • Especially with palpable sexual tension thrown in.†   (source)
  • See how palpable it is?†   (source)
  • And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their tangibility promised to us, wrongly …. wrongly, an immortality.†   (source)
  • His grief was a palpable thing.†   (source)
  • As they throw their heads back, shouting lyrics toward the far-off, recessed lighting, their release is palpable.†   (source)
  • We had surrounded Miss Wren and were pressing in on her, our desperation palpable.†   (source)
  • And because it dealt so palpably with him and her, there was nothing simpler than to complement words with touch.†   (source)
  • The pain felt like a gift, a blessing so palpable that it rose up her forearms and into her chest.†   (source)
  • They also lead to a loss of palpable pulses in the extremities—which is why the psychiatrist couldn't find one in his wrist.†   (source)
  • The excitement was now palpable.†   (source)
  • It also provides palpable excuses for anyone wishing to be early or late, or having arrived at the right destination or the wrong one.†   (source)
  • And he was as good as his word: his pleasure in her company was palpable to all.†   (source)
  • She had been almost jealous of the pain it wrought so palpably in Robert.†   (source)
  • Slowly, with a palpable reluctance that warmed some of the cold emptiness in the center of my body, Jared let his arms slide away.†   (source)
  • The tension was palpable.†   (source)
  • Palpable though writ small, the story in Athens is the story everywhere, always: the human condition.†   (source)
  • But on other occasions the simmering passion is so palpable that the American people sense it just by watching JFK and Jackie stand side by side.†   (source)
  • An immense psychological pressure, palpable and inchoate, was loose in that room.†   (source)
  • It has moved tangible, palpable, into her brain, the way memory invades the present in those who are old, the way gardens invade houses here, the way her tiny body steps into mine as intimate as anything I have witnessed and I have to force myself to be gentle with this frailty in the midst of my embrace.†   (source)
  • He took Sunny by the hips and with a palpable and surprising gentleness kissed her on the belly.†   (source)
  • "Nah," I said, "I was just curious:' His disdain for me was palpable.†   (source)
  • The fear, thought Dina, was palpable.†   (source)
  • When the drinks had first been served to them, ten or fifteen minutes earlier, Lane had sampled his, then sat back and briefly looked around the room with an almost palpable sense of well-being at finding himself (he must have been sure no one could dispute) in the right place with an unimpeachably right-looking girl—a girl who was not only extraordinarily pretty but, so much the better, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt.†   (source)
  • Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and universally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie.†   (source)
  • The leader stared at the palpable sword swishing unclutched at his men, then laughed aloud.†   (source)
  • And weirdly often now with me the feeling is that they are staring at us--that in some quite palpable way they precede us.†   (source)
  • I did not say this, but the words trembled so palpably on my tongue that to this day I've retained the impression that they were spoken.†   (source)
  • Once in a while he tries a bluff, but it is a palpable lie.†   (source)
  • And there were other troubles, more palpable.†   (source)
  • With rumors of violence and military dictatorship rife, Congress determined upon arbitration by a supposedly nonpartisan Electoral Commission—and Lucius Lamar, confident that an objective inquiry would demonstrate the palpable fraud of the Republican case, agreed to this solution to prevent a recurrence of the tragic conflict which had so aged his spirit and broadened his outlook.†   (source)
  • Eugene felt an almost palpable aura of a disgrace or sadness that had to be as ever-present as the skin is, of hiding and flaunting together.†   (source)
  • She said nothing of how she disliked the natives, of how the hostility that she could feel as something palpable coming from them against her, affected her; she knew he could be in bed for days yet, and that she would have to do it whether she liked it or not.†   (source)
  • The tension in the room was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist's loathing for Borg was palpable.†   (source)
  • We met with him in his holding cell; he was palpably anxious.†   (source)
  • LUDO BAGMAN: The perils are plentiful, but the prizes are palpable.†   (source)
  • Then fear began to enter, palpable and overwhelming, a fist clenching repeatedly in my chest.†   (source)
  • The threat of violence was as palpable as the deepening cold of autumn.†   (source)
  • The tension around the table was palpable.†   (source)
  • Even with the windows of the solar shuttered against the night, the chill in the room was palpable.†   (source)
  • The gloom seemed almost palpable, like a heavy cloth draped over the world.†   (source)
  • His eyes met Rufus's; the tension between the two werewolves was as palpable as a live wire.†   (source)
  • Several of the demons gasped, and a palpable tension saturated the air.†   (source)
  • When work made it necessary to speak to him, her anger was palpable.†   (source)
  • Saphira's disapproval was palpable, but she altered her course to resume her attack on Thorn.†   (source)
  • His sense of relief was palpable, but Bouchard detected something else.†   (source)
  • "He is a spy," Borodin said with palpable irony.†   (source)
  • My relief must have been palpable, because a moment later Nate said, 'You know, he's not so bad.†   (source)
  • Beside her, Brienne's misery was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • It's only midway through the first week of the program, and the intensity is already palpable.†   (source)
  • There is a palpable wave of expectation.†   (source)
  • The silence between them was palpable as Nasuada considered his request.†   (source)
  • I felt something palpable and helpless in my hands.†   (source)
  • It was strange that her own son's delight, his almost palpable euphoria, would make her feel old.†   (source)
  • For a moment, they stared at each other, the charge in the air palpable.†   (source)
  • For a moment he felt almost dizzy, his relief was so palpable.†   (source)
  • And the smell wafting off him was palpable even on the block.†   (source)
  • The desire to belong is palpable, with everyone looking for connections.†   (source)
  • The excitement running through her was palpable.†   (source)
  • A palpable sense of relief rippled through the clanmeet once he had finished.†   (source)
  • It was palpable, as if it were just yesterday, just behind a door.†   (source)
  • The reek within the Great Hall was palpable by eventide.†   (source)
  • I answered no. I remembered palpably that sorrow.†   (source)
  • The chill in the throne room was palpable.†   (source)
  • Once past the chamber door, the chill was palpable.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh had sensed a palpable shift in the atmosphere of the Temple Room, as if all the frustration and pain Peter Solomon had ever felt was now boiling to the surface …. focusing itself like a laser on Mal'akh.†   (source)
  • The interest around the table sharpened palpably: Some stiffened, others fidgeted, all gazing at Snape and Voldemort.†   (source)
  • This idea hangs between us, almost visible, almost palpable: heavy, formless, dark; collusion of a sort, betrayal of a sort.†   (source)
  • I doubt Maryse is any fonder of me— Please," Jace said, and though his voice was flat and he spoke quietly, Clary could almost feel, like a palpable thing, the pride he'd had to fight down to say that single word.†   (source)
  • The panic was palpable.†   (source)
  • Thomas devoured each bite, hunger trumping everything else, the mood of contentment and relief around him palpable.†   (source)
  • Happiness seemed to radiate from Dumbledore like light; like fire: Harry had never seen the man so utterly, so palpably content.†   (source)
  • "You are blinded," said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, "by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius!†   (source)
  • The next quarter of a second: There's no bright flash to blind her, and so she can actually see the shock wave spreading outward in a perfect sphere, hard and palpable as a ball of ice.†   (source)
  • All I had to do was to imagine them, and how I "knew" them would shimmer around them and through them, a light, an odor, a sound, a taste, a palpability that was all there was to understand about each and every one of them.†   (source)
  • He was, they decided, not like them at all, and the detached and aloof manner in which he watched the snowfall made this palpable and self-evident.†   (source)
  • The tension was palpable; Thomas felt like the air in the room had become glass that could shatter at any second.†   (source)
  • Kabuo Miyamoto, his net set, his radio off, the fog as palpable as cotton around him, replaced the line he'd left on Carl's boat with a reserve he kept stowed in his galley.†   (source)
  • The duke of Veragua, a direct descendent of Columbus, sat in the fourteenth carriage; the duchess occupied the fifteenth with Bertha Palmer, whose diamonds radiated an almost palpable heat.†   (source)
  • Raven pushes Y.T. through the room ahead of him, like she's a figurehead on his kayak, and everywhere they go, people are shoved out of her way by Raven's almost palpable personal force field.†   (source)
  • Since then, I might have declared that I was "not myself" or "out of my mind" or "beside myself," but the profoundest characteristic of my state of mind was not, in the end, what I did, but how palpably it felt like the real me.†   (source)
  • Pycelle's fear was palpable.†   (source)
  • I could feel the stress coming off of her, palpable, and as my father put a full plate in front of her heaped with meat, potatoes, green beans, and a big hunk of my mother's famous garlic bread, she lost it.†   (source)
  • Her alarm was palpable.†   (source)
  • Yes, people talking, eating, the loyal shoppers, they came from other boroughs, other counties, the double-parked cars, the coronary throb of the immediate streets still palpable.†   (source)
  • He took several deep breaths in an attempt to calm his frayed nerves, but nothing seemed to still the palpable throb in his hands and arms.†   (source)
  • 'Well,' Jamie said as a palpable awkwardness settled over us, and I wondered what exactly he knew about our family, if perhaps my very existence had come as a surprise.†   (source)
  • Will felt the hair on his neck prickle at the palpable, almost physical dislocation of air and space, a tremor that promised violence.†   (source)
  • The heat from the fire pit was palpable even at a distance; for the wildlings, it had to be blistering.†   (source)
  • Dany marveled at the smoothness of their scales, and the heat that poured off them, so palpable that on cold nights their whole bodies seemed to steam.†   (source)
  • The lack of enthusiasm was palpable.†   (source)
  • But touching the place where the child was made it no longer symbolic; it was real and palpable and material.†   (source)
  • But now the man's fear was palpable, and their task suddenly seemed much more than a mere waypoint on the road to Walpurgisnacht.†   (source)
  • Behind him, on the cargo seats, he felt the tension between the two men as palpably as the Toyota's unforgiving suspension.†   (source)
  • The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.†   (source)
  • The relief is instant and palpable.†   (source)
  • Just the addition of so many people breathing gave it a totally different feel, some sort of palpable energy that was never there otherwise.†   (source)
  • And when Nurse Asqual in a panicked voice called out the blood pressure—"systolic of eighty, palpable"—Stone wobbled as if he might faint.†   (source)
  • The terror was palpable, scary.†   (source)
  • For obligations were palpable, soundly rooted in reciprocal deeds; possibilities on the other hand were chimeras, flimsy and worthless, dangerous even.†   (source)
  • Two days after the funeral, she was moving through the house with a buzzing intensity, the energy coming off of her palpable enough to set your teeth chattering.†   (source)
  • I moved through the azaleas cautiously, silently; and for a moment a delicious, almost palpable curiosity had replaced the fear.†   (source)
  • And then and only then did it settle, gather, and focus, on the now, on a moment when the love was so palpable between father and son that the thought that it might end, and this memory be its only legacy, was unacceptable.†   (source)
  • The fear and anticipation among the demons was palpable as the huge, dark shape slipped from its perch and advanced warily up the nave.†   (source)
  • And Robert's relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • That John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had died on the same day, and that it was, of all days, the Fourth of July, could not be seen as a mere coincidence: it was a "visible and palpable" manifestation of "Divine favor," wrote John Quincy in his diary that night, expressing what was felt and would be said again and again everywhere the news spread.†   (source)
  • While Sophia expected a palpable buzz of interest now that the auction was getting under way, she realized when surveying the room that only a few people seemed to care.†   (source)
  • We never talked about Cora leaving, but as the day grew closer, that shift in the air was more and more palpable, until it was as if I could see my sister extracting herself from us, twisting looseand breaking free, minute by minute.†   (source)
  • But then there was that other thing, the indefinable buzz of people talking and eating and communing, a palpable energy that makes little things like shredded tents or pouring rain or even the end of the world hardly noticeable.†   (source)
  • At first Groleo had wanted the dragons caged and Dany had consented to put his fears at ease, but their misery was so palpable that she soon changed her mind and insisted they be freed.†   (source)
  • It was as if a huge pile of black wool had been packed around him and Saphira, and indeed, the darkness seemed to have a weight to it, as if it were a palpable substance pressing against them from all sides.†   (source)
  • For a long time he sat in this manner and I could all but feel his thoughts, as if they were palpable in the air like smoke.†   (source)
  • The ribbons crushed from the bonnet fell loose and I felt a palpable relief to see the childish dress, those ribbons, and something wonderfully comforting in her arms, a small china doll.†   (source)
  • Blackwood's relief was palpable.†   (source)
  • A lie, a lie, a palpable lie.†   (source)
  • The smell of water filled my nostrils, its coolness palpable through the close heat of the coffin; and then with the smell of the water was the smell of the deep earth.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw myself in a most palpable vision ascending the altar steps, opening the tiny sacrosanct tabernacle, reaching with monstrous hands for the consecrated ciborium, and taking the Body of Christ and strewing Its white wafers all over the carpet; and walking then on the sacred wafers, walking up and down before the altar, giving Holy Communion to the dust.†   (source)
  • I felt something on my foot, something palpable and heavy, something alive, something present, something breathing, but most seriously of all, something on my foot.†   (source)
  • The traffic light over the middle of the street a little ahead of where Will Hodge was parked went mindlessly from red to green again and again, and in his memory of its changes time became as palpable as the shiny-topped cars passing under it or the dark upper stories of the buildings on each side of the street.†   (source)
  • The humidity hovered around us in an almost palpable mist, the sun's pale disc hung behind gray clouds that shifted and churned in slow motion.†   (source)
  • I had not realized how real and palpable the spirit world was to them, and even when I heard them voicing their fears, I was more delighted than alarmed.†   (source)
  • There was a vibration of panic in the car; it was almost palpable, like the prickling of hair all over one's body, and in the near-darkness there came a surge of anxious whispering—hoarse, rising, but as incomprehensible as the rustle of an army of leaves.†   (source)
  • Thus Hodge; who by character and constitution preferred and, for all his seeming insensitivity, immensely enjoyed the useful, immediate, palpable: ruefully smiling to himself at the neatness of phrase in a null and void affidavit, ruefully grinning at the firm, responsible solidity of the newly wired-up round of a chair (the veritable image of his soul: good wire, no loop without its function, a small detail in relation to the whole but necessary, however distasteful to people inclined…†   (source)
  • Even before I put my father's letter down for the last time, I breathed a delicious sigh and felt the next scene hatching, so palpable I could almost reach up and fondle it, like a fat golden egg in my brain.†   (source)
  • Her absence, after the most complete (or perhaps I should say only) propinquity of flesh in my life, was spooky, almost palpable, and I drowsily realized it had partly to do with the smell of her, which remained like a vapor in the air: a musky genital odor, still provocative, still lascivious.†   (source)
  • "This darkness," he said, "seems jolly palpable."†   (source)
  • All palpable forms of life have failed me.†   (source)
  • The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.†   (source)
  • Others have come, temporal tempters, With pleasure and power at palpable prlcie.†   (source)
  • Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.†   (source)
  • The strangeness was grown almost as palpable as phlegm to his breathing.†   (source)
  • A sense almost palpable, as of a leashed and imminent and awful force.†   (source)
  • Without turning to look, David knew himself regarded, so palpable was that gaze, so like a pressure.†   (source)
  • In any case it is impossible that he should fully have believed in his main thesis–believed, that is to say, that for a century or more the entire civilized world had been taken in by a huge and palpable lie which he alone was able to see through.†   (source)
  • Because her sex was the palpable difference between the familiar and the strange, it seemed to fill the space between us, so that I felt her to be especially female, as I had felt of no woman before.†   (source)
  • He grinned feebly at her, tickled, above his nausea and grief, at the palpable assumption of blind innocence which always heralded her discoveries.†   (source)
  • My faux pas was so palpably obvious, so idiotic and unpardonable, that to ignore it would show me to be an even greater fool, if possible, than I was already.†   (source)
  • On at least two occasions I stopped cases where to my mind the accused was palpably innocent, directing the jury that there was no case.†   (source)
  • Realities warm and palpable.†   (source)
  • For I wanted to see how Mary Carmichael set to work to catch those unrecorded gestures, those unsaid or half-said words, which form themselves, no more palpably than the shadows of moths on the ceiling, when women are alone, unlit by the capricious and coloured light of the other sex.†   (source)
  • But the drops were palpably water, and as they fell, the wind grew stronger and stronger, and suddenly — probably because of the tremendous convection set up by the blazing city — a whirlwind ripped through the park.†   (source)
  • He would ruin his new gray broadcloth suit, which would cause him to swear horribly in the morning and tell Ellen at great length how his horse fell off the bridge in the darkness—a palpable lie which would fool no one but which would be accepted by all and make him feel very clever.†   (source)
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