palpability

In their different ways, both principals demonstrated palpability and substance; little else on stage did.

A dream of palpability, not a true place.

He decided in favor of palpability and ordered Eutychius' book to be burned.

What's appealing is the palpability of the fantasy world, its willingness to enter physically our daily life.

And soprano voices - very difficult to reproduce properly - emerged with flesh-and-blood palpability.

The best, made of colored modeling clay applied directly to the wall, have a weirdly vivid palpability.

The third dimension lends the characters palpability.

He'd been accorded the friendship of the Highlanders, seldom given to outsiders, a thing of bedrock palpability, irrevocable.

They finally walked on the spreading prairie, and as they walked, the smell took on a metallic palpability, a foreboding essence.

'the dense darkness', and 'gritty, grubby smears' have lost the earthy palpability in the immaculate portrayal.

It is scrutinized whether present-day behavior like e.g. the defense of one's own piece of land, palpability or even murder base on ancestors of humankind.

Discovering its simple source is of course eye-opening, but it is the light itself - its infinity, volume and palpability - that is the main event.

Rendered with zillions of minuscule, multicolored brushstrokes, the objects under study assume a robust, earthy palpability that one imagines Henry David Thoreau would have appreciated.

Such memories, which are intimately tied to the images that emanate from our huge common television set, share a sense of immediacy, a palpability, an involvement of all the senses.

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.

Among the most arresting works in this show are a number of paintings, sculptures and drawings that not only are technically impressive but also represent the human body with vivid palpability.

Paired with this offset lithograph is Charles Sheeler's "MacDougal Alley," a painting from 1924 that is a Precisionist exercise in plainness and palpability.

You might mistake a 6-by-10-foot canvas for a wall of green high school lockers; in two other works, plastic subway seats fitted perfectly into the rectangle of the picture have a startling palpability.

Real objects can be physically handled and naturally manipulated to be viewed from any direction, which is essential for ergonomic evaluation and provides a strong sense of palpability (Ishii & Ullmer, 1997).

The smile isn't as wide, the bust is smaller, the waist is not as long, and the flesh doesn't have the incredible palpability that drove everyone mad, but, yes, Michelle Williams can play Marilyn Monroe.

To believe, if only briefly, in the justice or even the palpability of one's cause, and raise to the level of purpose what in the final analysis is only what given egos, fashionably or not, perceive as beauty.

In each medium-large picture (as well as in diptychs and triptychs), the pictorial field is entirely filled by hanging yards of richly colored, creased, wrinkled or twisted fabric, all painted with trompe l'oeil palpability.

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.

At his best, in large, weirdly stylized landscapes, Mr. Tyler accumulates simplified tubular and spiky forms into dense jungle scenes, which have the Cubist palpability and otherworldly dreaminess of Henri Rousseau (Johnson).