21.   He is accustomed to command, and there was a palpable sense of a man who no longer had the energy to exercise it fully.

22.   He uses his novelistic powers of description, honed in three works of fiction, to give the reader a palpable sense of what he sees.

23.   If indeed the standoff were to be ended it would be a glimmer of good news after a day on which both sides expressed a palpable sense of dread.

24.   In his version of the story, Wise created a palpable sense of menace without ever letting his poltergeists appear on screen.

25.   In the new-media business, there is a palpable sense of regional competition among the centers for Internet commerce and content.

26.   Not surprisingly, this change has produced the intended results of a greater propensity to cooperate and a more palpable sense of group identity.

27.   On the Redmond campus, there has been a palpable sense in recent months of the closing of ranks, according to a number of Microsoft employees.

28.   One gets a palpable sense that these are the places Davies has lived, and that some of his stories are rooted deeply in his own experiences.

29.   Outside, on the sun-bright courthouse lawn, a palpable sense of relief flowed through the small crowd that had gathered to hear the verdict.

30.   Part of what makes these hearings interesting is the palpable sense, beyond the usual political jockeying, that this is urgent national business.