imperceptibility

• “Personally, I feel these ads should be left alone to fade into imperceptibility, which is part of their natural life cycle.”

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• “Dropping the shoulder and shifting his weight with the speed and imperceptibility that made it impossible to react to, he cut inside and away from Sami Khedira, before threading an immaculate pass through the gap for Iniesta to run on to.”

  The Guardian: Cesc Fábregas starts with a night to remember at Barcelona

• “The dynamic stillness between particle and wave is where we confront the wavicle: an awareness of the imperceptibility of the power of the symbol delivering a new aesthetic to the avant-garde.”

  The Huffington Post: Lisa Paul Streitfeld: Modernist (R)evolution in Performance: Ralph Lemon's Middle Passage

• “The intimacy, the silence, the imperceptibility of the corporeal crossover, the secrecy with which the breath, the spirit, escapes the body — all of this unspoken and unspeakable quality enters into Severn's deathbed portrait.”

  Keats's Afterlife

• “It's a Huckabee joke that's been processed into near imperceptibility.”

  "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

• “Only Beynor remained solidly upright, the terrible radiance of his magical tool now paled almost to imperceptibility.”

  Conqueror's Moon

• “A faint, tantalizing odor right at the edge of imperceptibility.”

  Persuader

• “Therefore, if any sensible object be indivisible, such object, if set in the said extreme place whence imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be both visible and invisible their objects, whether regarded in general or at the same time; but this is impossible.”

  On Sense and the Sensible

• “In the advanced stages of cicatrisation narrowing of the lumen of the trunk vessels was far from uncommon, especially in cases of wounds of the arm crossing the course of the brachial artery; in many of these the radial pulse was diminished almost to imperceptibility.”

  Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre

• “According to him it means, -- 'in consequence of his subtlety and imperceptibility, Jiva does not become attached to anything.”

  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18

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