All 3 Uses
tangible
in
Seventeenth Summer
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- At first neither of us spoke but sat feeling the softness of the breeze and watching the fireflies winking in the grass, while from the clubhouse music floated out to us, muted by the almost tangible stillness of the night.†
Chpt June
- It seemed as if I were drinking in the almost tangible pleasure of the morning like a rich, heavy malted milk that comes slow and thick through the straws.
Chpt July *tangible = capable of being touched
- It was a gaudy thing, like a woman with too much rouge on, and the glow it made in the corner of the room was almost warm and tangible enough to touch and the bright, twisting colors added a strange color to the music that came out of the box.†
Chpt July
Definitions:
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(1)
(tangible) capable of being touched, or easily understood so there is no question of its value or reality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)