There was also a palpable fear of failure, the ministers inadvertently admitted under questioning before the business select committee.

This demonstrates palpable fear of systemic risk in the upper circles of international finance.

There was a lack of menace; not much sense of palpable fear about what was downstairs or outside.

With his right hand on the mike, his left hand in his trousers, he remains impassive yet emits a palpable sense of loss.

It's an artful and plangent work for three couples, weighted with yearning, regret and a palpable sense that the vagaries of love are inexorable.

There's a palpable sense of a city being built in the hope that the world will come.

I wasn't especially surprised though, but felt an almost palpable sense of relief with some.

In 1997, as in 1979, incoming administrations benefited from a palpable sense of the failure- prolonged failure - of their predecessors.

There was a palpable tension between the justice and the president.

There was a palpable tension in the air as the visitors waited for the boom of the cannon.

Indeed, one fascination of this gripping performance was its palpable tension.