But this woman, though palpably real from moment to moment, remains an enigma, her chameleonlike behavior being unsusceptible to accountability and closure.

His purpose this time seems more reflective than showy, and his love for this sports-related subject matter is palpably real.

What matters most here isn't the number of gigabytes it took to make the feathers on a seagull look palpably real.

Even if a play is make-believe and not much of a play at all, the death sentence is palpably real.

No one could make flesh more palpably real or could control more subtly the play of sun and shade across a chest or face.

It is one of the very few scenes that comes across as palpably real in a play undone by the admirable desire to achieve too much.

The effect was rather like heat mirages on a summer road: an incorporeal shimmer caused by something palpably real.

Ms. Sillas turns Jackie's yearning into something palpably real.

"Chance was horribly and palpably real in Vietnam," the 39-year-old artist has written.

Craig Gilner is a palpably real character worthy of a place in the reader's long-term memory.