This intangibility-walking as it were in a fog round and round the Nelson monument, knowing it was there but never seeing it-remained with him even when practical matters were discussed.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
When there, it had seemed for the most part like some romantic dream; and as he lay now at home thinking, the vague intangibility of those nights and days appeared to him more fanciful and strange than ever; so much so, that there were moments when he was ready to ask himself whether, after all, it was not the result of imagination.
"Blind Policy"
George Manville Fenn
A certain remoteness from real life, even a certain vaporous intangibility as to time and place, seem to be a helpful element in our enjoyment of a music-drama.
"A Book About the Theater"
Brander Matthews