Painting and sculpture are tangible commodities, but the essential point is that artistic success was not achieved because millions of people purchased reproductions.

Some information is provided not as a tangible commodity but as a service.

You seem to assume that the purpose of research is the production of tangible commodities.

By the time her exhortation was finished, the tension within the hall was a tangible commodity, a violin string stretched taut and ready for bowing.

In economics, any tangible commodity which is produced and subsequently consumed by the consumer, to satisfy its current wants or needs, is a consumer good or final good.

Gambling fever was almost a tangible commodity, a madness infecting everyone around her.

The energistic ability of the possessed is essentially unlimited, you cannot package it up and redistribute it to the have-nots as if it were some kind of tangible commodity.

Ideas had become, in effect, tangible commodities, to be manufactured and marketed to elected officials and candidates - and by them to the public.

Once a vague, ill-defined notion, the essence of command had become a tangible commodity.

Our driving motivation doesn't come from tangible commodities that this world has to offer.