1 He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 2 As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still.
3 His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and dwindling.
4 He stood looking down on the sleeping face which seemed to lie like a delicate impalpable mask over the living lineaments he had known.
5 If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.
6 I declined joining their breakfast, and, at the first gleam of dawn, took an opportunity of escaping into the free air, now clear, and still, and cold as impalpable ice.
7 Of course that is something indefinable, impalpable, but it has never been so before, and that glance means a great deal, she thought.
8 Met by this difficulty historians of that class devise some most obscure, impalpable, and general abstraction which can cover all conceivable occurrences, and declare this abstraction to be the aim of humanity's movement.