The night after that hypnosis session I became aware of an almost palpable presence before me.

It simply lay there on the black vinyl seat, a palpable presence.

It was merely there with her; a palpable presence.

But dying was a palpable presence in that room.

And here, where so little has changed over the years, their dreams seem almost a palpable presence.

The silence of the studio seemed to gather body, so that it became an almost palpable presence.

It felt good to him, almost like a palpable presence, a warm flower of deep red opening in his chest.

Eight miles away, the state prison complex is an almost palpable presence.

Of considerably more palpable presence are three massive works that toy with relations between inside and outside.

To some here, the former pastor, who died in 1969, remains an almost palpable presence.