What is "impalpable"

Usage examples of "impalpable".

It was now the past that seemed most real, while the future still seemed void, and the present merely the impalpable becomingness of the indestructible past.

It had come to body forth all that merges and changes and disappears, to mirror the incessant departures and evanescences of life, to shape itself upon the infinitely subtle play of light, the restless, heaving, foaming surface of the sea, the impalpable racks of perfume, upon gusts of wind and fading sounds, upon all the ephemeral wonder of the world.

The nopal are invisible and impalpable, and when denied their own freedom of motion can easily be manipulated telekinetically.

Switches drove home, most of the fabric of the enemy vessel went out of phase, the voyagers experienced the weirdly uncomfortable acceleration along an impossible vector, and the familiar firmament disappeared into an impalpable but impenetrable murk of featureless, textureless gray.

Out of each discarded human husk a vug emerged, and the husks teetered and one by one, as if blown by an impalpable wind, writhed and then danced away, weightless, already without color.

THOUGH a prey to that most burthensome of cares--the uneasy consciousness of an impalpable yet ever-threatening evil--Theydon was not blind to the humorous element in the present situation.

For a whole constellation of impalpable reasons, he had dreaded getting involved in a business that was trammeled with personalities and passions.

I think some embodiment--no, that word is a contradiction--some impalpable essence of Tragedy, some doomed soul whereof the head was bowed and the wings were leaded with a weight of ineffable and unrepented crime.

By using a suitable cantrap, I am able to lift up impalpable threads composed of pure starlight and water-skein.

Rather than surrender and feed the eagles of the hated Justiciate, every Garshan captain had blown his vessel, with its full crew and their complements and their families, into impalpable vapor with an atomic bomb.

I give the word, that this palpable wall will turn impalpable, that it will present no greater barrier to your passage than so much smoke -- which will be the exact truth for about four seconds after I have finished counting.

They stepped out on a beach covered with fine black sand, the impalpable DEBRIS of the calcined rocks of the island.

The ardour of noon was now past, and a light breeze somewhat alleviated the terrors of the desert, though not without bearing on its wings an impalpable dust, which the Saracen little heeded, though his heavily-armed companion felt it as such an annoyance that he hung his iron casque at his saddle-bow, and substituted the light riding-cap, termed in the language of the time a MORTIER, from its resemblance in shape to an ordinary mortar.

The delicate scales used by the assayers were inclosed in glass cases intended to be air-tight, and yet some of this dust was so impalpable and so invisibly fine that it would get in, somehow, and impair the accuracy of those scales.

Life's full throb over breathless and abased: Yet stand they, though impalpable the links, One, more one than the bridally embraced.