impalpable

• “If we want endless, satisfying blue, we must look up to where it dwells in impalpable space, shining like solid enamel, or liquid and vague.”

  The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

• “As for microscopic lesions, once detected in mammograms, a doctor is duty bound to treat them as there is no way of knowing whether these early "impalpable" cancers will be aggressive or harmless.”

  Forbes: Pink Alert

• “All sorts of higher abstractions bring with them the same kind of impalpable appeal.”

  The Varieties of Religious Experience

• “You who listen to me Sunday after Sunday will not suspect me of seeking to minimise either of these two aspects of our Lord's mission and operation, but I do believe that very largely the glad thought of an indwelling Christ, who actually abides and works in our hearts, and is not only for us in the heavens, or with us by some kind of impalpable and metaphorical presence, but in simple, that is to say, in spiritual reality is in our spirits, has faded away from the consciousness of the”

  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

• “These drawings adorno contact with real real power and varied assortment varies impalpable awakening and elegant ideas.”

  Ornament Serenity | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

• “Though the pack rat typically cuts a reclusive figure, Gavin Pretor-Pinney is an exception: a man who loves the open air and collects impalpable things that will never clutter shelves, gather dust or annoy spouses.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cirrus Concerns

• “Consider it mud, invisible, impalpable, but heavy as mud.”

  THE HEATHEN

• “Imagine, further, this sand to be invisible, impalpable, yet to retain all the weight and density of sand.”

  THE HEATHEN

• “As he stood, thinking it out, feeling the wonder and the glory, at times sorry for those who can see no longer the slanting sheets of rain and the grass at the feet, at times feeling that since this is good, in some impalpable way oblivion to all this may be also good, as he stood there, flushed with the climbing and sad with great joy, the thought came: With whom?”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “Above float clouds—white, gray, and inken, while the clear, impalpable air springs and sparkles like new wine.”

  Simon & Schuster: DARKWATER

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