1.   Around the Bear Stearns trading floor on Monday, there was palpable relief at being back to work.

2.   Despite the tension, there was palpable relief that the day of reckoning has come.

3.   Eventually, a way of limiting checkpoints to automobiles did present itself, and several justices seized on it with almost palpable relief.

4.   There is palpable relief in the room.

5.   The news came amid palpable relief that the devastating plane crash in New York Monday was likely an accident and not a terrorist incident.