And then, with the palpability of that rich paint, they draw us forward, further amplifying the question: Where are we going?.    From LearnThat.org.  [Peter Frank]

Adjective : a palpable lie; palpable absurdity.    From Dictionary.com. 

I say, wrapping my arms tight around him, rediscovering the palpability of passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

They finally walked upon the spreading prairie, and as they walked the smell took on a metallic palpability, a foreboding essence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genellan- Planetfall]

A half – formed, wholly unexpressed suspicion tossed in it, now heaving itself up, and now sinking into the deep; now gaining palpability, and now losing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

And although it's incorrect to say of Whittaker Chambers that he emanated melancholia when you were with him, it's not incorrect to say about him that you felt the palpability of his melancholy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist] Reference

Strung fiercely to the thought of emptiness, it came upon him nevertheless, as he opened the door, with a curious chill sense of palpability; as if silence and emptiness could strike one in the face and make him falter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

Both Delusion and "Lighthouse" take place in the dark - a factor in their process of enchantment as obvious as it is necessary, but indicative of the palpability and immediacy involved in the experience (s) they convey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams] Reference

The unimpeachability of his form is always balanced by the palpability of his sound, the miracle of his sound mixtures, the resoluteness of his energy, the living spirit, the heartbeat, the unsentimental warmth of his feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mozart Player Gives Himself Advice] Reference

I prefer its old name, Armstice Day, not because veterans don't deserve their own day (they do) but because detaching the day from its original context — November 11, 1918 — diminishes the palpability of that crucial moment in history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The long grave already dug] Reference

I suppose the lasting value of this proposal is not its policy value, but its political palpability, whereby instead of developing an burdensome and intrusive new regulatory market it allows for individual choice and limited government intervention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Hansen: Fee-and-Dividend not Cap-and-Trade] Reference

When such an acute and practical physicist is driven, by the palpability of the fact that the polar waters are continually tending towards the equator, to seek the cause in the tropical evaporation, it shows that the dogma, which teaches that rotation can produce no motion, is unsound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

Laotian did not return he might continue to have the pleasant company of his thoughts provided he held reign over their restive movements and they were directed mostly toward some external aim instead of a constant churning of old redundant ideas and ghosts of memory haunting him with their illusionary palpability as though that which had been could be grasped still.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

Then the stars bloom out, with a flame, an hallucinating palpability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Augustin] Reference

To this view Gregory objected the palpability of Christ's risen body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

THE night is starless, with a darkness so enveloping that it seems to possess palpability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916] Reference

"You feel this palpability of the change throughout the house and throughout the country," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Low-frequency effects are also put to good use, adding heavy palpability to several action sequences and every gunshot fired.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News] Reference

Emphatic selflessness draws and augments the daunted palpability and causes to initiate the preamble of soul and the human torso.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Stage's greatest strength - the nearness and human palpability of it - could be its biggest drawback in trying to achieve dream state.    From Wordnik.com.  [news | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com] Reference

Is it that I need my enablers of old to remember just how far we bent the rules, or to fill the air with the palpability of the experience?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smut & Steff] Reference

A half-formed, wholly unexpressed suspicion tossed in it, now heaving itself up, and now sinking into the deep; now gaining palpability, and now losing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

Stylistically, Parker conjures 60s free-jazzers like Henry Grimes (in high-action palpability) and Alan Silva (with his slashing arco), but his enormous sound owes a debt to Chicago hard-bop great Wilbur Ware.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

The only consideration which restrains us is our conception of its atomic constitution; and here, even, we have to seek aid from our notion of an atom, as something possessing in infinite minuteness, solidity, palpability, weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

Other times they're constructed to isolate a telling detail that creates what Wood calls thisness, which he defines as "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [One-Way Street] Reference

The result is much as you will hear from our higher-specification GT3 USB 3.0 cable: Clear and open highs, elegant midrange textures, powerful but in-control bass, an enhanced sense of the sheer palpability of the music you'll enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Releases Forum on eCoustics.com] Reference

"Thisness," introduced by the medieval theologian Duns Scotus: "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability, any detail that centers our attention with its concretion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VQR] Reference

And as darkness is not substantial, but a mere privation, the palpability ascribed to that by the sacred historian must have arisen from some peculiar affection of the atmosphere, perhaps an exceeding thick vapour, that accompanied it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

Inside the Children's Memorial particularly, this palpability of fear becomes "real" when one thinks of all the children, so often scared of the dark, separated from their parents, - all alone even though surrounded by other children just like them -, sent alone to an atrocious death.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

But out of this our cloud upon the precipice's edge, there grows into palpability, a shape, far more terrible than any genius or any demon of a tale, and yet it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

James Wood, writing in The New Yorker, declared that their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy’s ‘characters, acts, situations.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiter, There’s Some Grebeshki in My Turtle Soup - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

With varying levels of observational palpability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Atheists Exist?] Reference

The palpability of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [beyond the pale] Reference