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.