How To Use Impervious In A Sentence
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It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
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It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the last couple of years, he had become impervious to the disrespect and ignorance of his classmates.
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His ego was impervious to self-doubt.
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The emerging generation are more and more impervious to standard school indoctrination, less ready to give up their seats on buses, less respectful and filial.
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The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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Worn over her unfeeling body, the suit gave the thirty-something Casey the strength of twenty men, and made her almost impervious to harm as well as giving her certain enhanced sensory abilities.
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State-Zionism is an ideology based on an absolute conviction, one impervious to history and experience, to emendation and to compromise.
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But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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My heart goes out to particular moments and people, both recent and distant, and holds on for dear life, impervious to happiness or unhappiness.
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As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough.
The Sun
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The Monitor proved impervious to the Virginia's broadsides and captured the imaginations of naval officials and the public.
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The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was completely impervious to criticism.
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For example, the taste for discrimination may be endogenous to a particular society and consequently relatively impervious to competition.
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The few westerners she knew seemed impervious to the muffled warnings of her Chinese friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time, he had posted several titles of fantasy books on the chalkboard, and then let us imperviously vote.
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When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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The two enormous generators, the blackness of the protonic shield, and the great artificial matter generator, throwing an inner shield impervious to the cosmics Thett gave off as it vanished, both were whining.
Invaders from the Infinite
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The use of impervious surfaces (like pavement and concrete) can be minimized and replaced with pervious surfaces (like stone and gravel) whenever possible.
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Yet from our plane window, we can see idyllic seaside villages seemingly impervious to the devastation that has swept the region.
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If the Mass is considered as a kind of production process, it again proves impervious to economic and cultural fads.
Christianity Today
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The sediment and heavy substance accumulating in the bottom of the sewers, impervious to flushing, is removed by process of windlassing at the manholes and transporting to the dumps.
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He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image.
Times, Sunday Times
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This replenishes the water table while it filters and reduces toxins that otherwise would be picked up from impervious surfaces and concentrated in stormwater runoff.
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The administration seems indifferent to data, impervious to competing viewpoints and ideas.
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True, they get pretty chilly if the fire goes out, but wrapped in a double duvet and lying on your own personal sheepskin, you'll be impervious to the cold.
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We, the English, as you can see, are of average height, smoke a pipe, carry a rolled umbrella, go to the best schools, yet remain impervious to knowledge.
Up the EmpireInterbreeding for a Better World
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The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled.
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The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The two Virginians were shrewd men with an imperviously close bond and an impressive degree of patience and self-control.
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Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home.
Times, Sunday Times
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It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems obvious to them and impervious to more complicated arguments.
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Lumps in a starch paste are caused by clumps of granules gelatinizing on their outsides and becoming impervious.
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Others seem impervious to the beliefs, values and motives of people they work with.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Japanese economy is supposed to be impervious to market forces.
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The element in our last kettle was impervious to descaler and had started to resemble a chilly tundra.
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But the inertron shell of my swooper was impervious to the disintegrator ray.
The Airlords of Han
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They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The floorcovering you select will need to be impervious to water.
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Impervious surface moisture in building a permanent waterproof layer.
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Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home.
Times, Sunday Times
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A palmate newt – its impervious gaze scanned minute horizons between the worlds of water and air.
Country Diary: Wenlock Edge
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Rainwater harvesting also lessens local erosion and flooding caused by impervious cover such as pavement and roof.
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Such leaders seem impervious to the salutary lessons from the experience in East Asia where a commitment to growth-oriented policies led to sharp declines in poverty.
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In reality, Pamir was staring at a sheet of high-grade hyperfiber, thick and very nearly impervious to any force nature could throw at it.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
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Modest increases in impervious surface due to construction of cottages can in most cases easily be offset by modest removal of impervious surfaces on affected lots, and/or disconnection of downspouts from pipes that discharge runoff to streets.
Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola
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As the pot cools such a glaze often 'crazes' and the tiny cracksso produced mean that an incomplete impervious glaze coating forms.
3 Packaging materials
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In times of crisis old certainties come to the fore, and few things are as impervious to change as the British class system.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other words, it's not impervious to moisture but it will get you through an afternoon cloudburst.
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Impervious to scandalized looks from better dressed diners, I slowly ate, with Humber's establishment in mind, a perfect and enormous dinner of lobster, duck bigarade, lemon souffle, and brie, and drank most of a bottle of Chateau Leauville Lescases 1948.
For Kicks
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She seems almost impervious to the criticism from all sides.
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The cliffs are so solid and unyielding and yet, these beautiful, persistent plants are allowed to set their roots into that so seemingly impervious surface.
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The administration seems indifferent to data, impervious to competing viewpoints and ideas.
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Powered forever by the inexhaustible Sun, impervious to the cold, Sojourner may to this day be wearing grooves in that ocherous desert floor.
A Space in Time
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All of nature’s indicators speak of global strain, and yet we the relatively affluent remain impervious to it.
ASAP HOUSE: House About Saving a Planet | Inhabitat
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The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Designed to keep out intruders, the small chamber is protected by steel-plated walls, ceiling, and floor, and a door that is close to impervious.
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Rocky also seemed impervious to pain.
The Sun
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Also in the water were strange vessels, with no masts or sails, built of gunmetal-gray metals that seemed impervious to the rust that had afflicted the dock facilities.
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‘We'll have to get police escorts for you, sir,’ the soldier said imperviously.
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It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings.
Times, Sunday Times
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So is domination down to a rhino-hide skin, an impervious soul and an unfaltering belief in yourself?
Times, Sunday Times
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If the Mass is considered as a kind of production process, it again proves impervious to economic and cultural fads.
Christianity Today
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The great postmodern shopping malls, marble corporate palaces, and gleaming new hotels, built in the late 1980s and early 1990s when there seemed to be no end to the property boom, rose imperviously above the floods.
Thailand: All the King's Men
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From years of denial and austere behavioural therapy groups - whether in school or privately with a psychiatrist - there are some who are imperviously self-conscious and rely heavily on medication to mask whatever symptoms may surface.
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He was not without humour, but completely impervious to Jane's irony.
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The Japanese economy is supposed to be impervious to market forces.
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When an organisation can count the police and elected officials as its co-conspirators it seems impervious to outside attack, imperious even, impermeable and unbreachable.
Nick Abbot: The Fall Of An Empire?
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Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks orchestrated against him by the Chicago machine-style politicians at the White House, a fact also plainly visible to his fellow citizens," Bolton adds.
Cheney named Conservative of the Year
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This can be due to increasing confining pressure (mechanical compaction), tectonic stress in impervious sediments or hydrothermal activity.
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He reached out with almost omnipotent power and smote his enemies, remaining impervious to their counterattack (only some of the minions died).
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He is impervious to criticism and rational argument.
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After two minutes, a second bath of acid stops the development process and a third fixes the image, making the paper impervious to future contacts with light.
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Our council seem impervious to criticism and oblivious to basic common sense.
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Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever dramatic effect is achieved by Batman's vicious "interrogation" is dulled by the film's general bloodlessness and the Joker's seeming imperviousness, etc.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight
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This material is impervious to gases and liquids.
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It is petulantly impervious to innovation or the very idea of gustatory progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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someone impervious to argument
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When we commenced paper-making several years ago, having then no machinery, we employed a number of native papermakers to make it in the way to which they had been accustomed, with the exception of mixing conjee or rice gruel with the pulp and using it as sizing; our object being that of making paper impervious to insects.
Life of William Carey
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Fletcher: "We need to go back and reduce the amount of what we call impervious surface, the amount of pavement and roofs that won't absorb water.
KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Public Radio
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It's utterly funny to observe how many people will see one person standing, and then become utterly impervious to the empty seats, and also stand.
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Governments remain impervious to the evidence that, in a democratic society, economic equality or transformation of value cannot be attained via education.
Times, Sunday Times
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We love taverns because they're unpretentious and appear to be impervious to the mainstream.
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While the Savoy remains one of the more traditional tearooms in London, even this traditional establishment is not impervious to modernisation.
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She is strangely dissociated from her husband, whose disembodied voice, imperviously reciting poetry, ‘struck close upon her ears.’
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We're going to Mr. Shears, two blocks down the street." said Jared imperviously.
Under the Skylights
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This is classic CF symptomology-- persistent lurking lung and sinus and ear bacteria becoming more and more antibiotic- resistant and hiding semi- imperviously in the mucus.
"Sicker than a Doorknob"
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While many of these seemingly impervious works belong to Mozart, Verdi’s Falstaff is another.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Although he had raised heat enough to sear solid stone to vapour, the ice imprisoning Anskiere remained imperviously shrouded in fog.
Shadowfane
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I've realised already the futility of fighting: life goes on impervious and one has to go with it.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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It is indoctrination Misguided pride leaves us impervious to any version of success that does not bear the patent of our system.
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My best advice for becoming impervious to the tiring mantras of archaic health advice is to develop your own “nonstick surface” against antifat ignorance and other types of “Better Living Through Chemistry” propaganda.
The Truth About Beauty
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With the assistance of such guides, nothing could remain impervious or inaccessible; resistance was fatal; flight was impracticable; and the patient submission of helpless innocence seldom found mercy from the Barbarian conqueror.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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To render them completely gastight and as impervious to the action of the weather, sun, etc., as possible, five coats of dope are applied externally, two coats of Delta dope, two of aluminium dope and one of aluminium varnish applied in that order.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
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When did we begin to allow, let alone forgive, let alone encourage work that is so rhetorical, so impervious to public engagement?
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Wild to have his revenge, Van has another doctor in town, Dr. Steinfranken, relace the veins and arteries in his neck with some kind of flexible metal of his own invention, making Van impervious to the bite of vampires (or vampire).
Emerson LaSalle, R. I. P.
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As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough.
The Sun
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How does glue bond with impervious substances like glass and metal?
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I can be impervious to some of the hurtful things in the press.
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The press was completely impervious to the presentation of evidence that might in any way be seen as exonerating the President.
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The pervious or impervious boundary conditions are just special cases in this paper.
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Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hardpan or impervious layer of soil (called caliche in the Southwest's low deserts) might be the cause.
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Rocky also seemed impervious to pain.
The Sun
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The crisp guard hairs of the Labrador's coat easily shed burrs and brambles, and the dense undercoat makes the dog practically impervious to water.
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It would be an impervious being who would not note that this outpouring of the spirit of helpfulness is not present in all the dealings between the scattered members of our human family.
League of Red Cross Societies - Nobel Lecture
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The Japanese economy is supposed to be impervious to market forces.
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Ultimately, the child loses self-esteem, leaving an impression to the outside world that he is impervious to rehabilitation.
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How does glue bond with impervious substances like glass and metal?
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The floors and doors on the main floor are of solid mahogany, which is impervious to tropical woodworms and termites.
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A hardpan or impervious layer of soil (called caliche in the Southwest's low deserts) might be the cause.
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True, they get pretty chilly if the fire goes out, but wrapped in a double duvet and lying on your own personal sheepskin, you'll be impervious to the cold.
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Others seem impervious to the beliefs, values and motives of people they work with.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a shielded swooper, while impervious to the "dis" ray, was helpless against squadrons of Han aircraft, for the Hans developed a technique of playing their beams underneath the swooper in such fashion as to suck it down flutteringly into the vacuum so created, until they brought it finally, and more or less violently, to earth.
The Airlords of Han
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How does glue bond with impervious substances like glass and metal?
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The big ski resorts are like bubbles that are almost impervious to bad news from the outside.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zinc metal used in the galvanizing process provides an impervious barrier between the steel substrate and corrosive elements in the atmosphere.
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In times of crisis old certainties come to the fore, and few things are as impervious to change as the British class system.
Times, Sunday Times
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They seem impervious to everything, even poison.
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Achmed's feet were like cracked rocks, impervious to heat and cuts; ours were soft and, as the heat crept up on us, we began to develop calluses and, more dangerously, blisters.
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Bright impervious surfaces in plaster, white paint, vitreous enamel, glass or stainless steel are not just cleanable but seen to be clean.
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He was not entirely impervious to new evidence, however.
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Few roots will grow beneath an impervious surface such as a roadway.
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The worst of it is that such a compilation brings a man money, because there are always plenty of people who like to dabble in mud; and a ghoul is the most impervious of beings, probably because a ghoul of this species regards himself merely as an unprejudiced seeker after truth, and claims to be what he would call a realist.
The Silent Isle
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But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image.
Times, Sunday Times
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He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image.
Times, Sunday Times
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One consequence was the Chinese determination "to prove their imperviousness to outside pressure.
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Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Governments remain impervious to the evidence that, in a democratic society, economic equality or transformation of value cannot be attained via education.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most people seem impervious to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious.
Times, Sunday Times
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As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough.
The Sun
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But going through the rest of his crud would be a waste of time, given that the only people who could possibly be convinced by what he says are those who are impervious to reason and evidence.
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The few westerners she knew seemed impervious to the muffled warnings of her Chinese friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately I think the American military establishment seems largely impervious to overwhelming American sentiment against the war.
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Fund managers back them loyally, impervious to quarterly performance tables.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks ...
Cheney named Conservative of the Year
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The coatings are weldable and impervious to automotive and hydraulic fluids.
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Most people seem impervious to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her moral, cultural, and intellectual framework does not require her to question a doctrine that renders her prejudices and self-conceit impervious to reason.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Bright impervious surfaces in plaster, white paint, vitreous enamel, glass or stainless steel are not just cleanable but seen to be clean.
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The measurement of actual works also explained that the use of compound geotextile in rock fill dam surface can reduce the amount of leakage water by 60%, the effects of imperviousness are obvious.
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Her signature fiery coiffure is impervious to circumstantial weather!)
Nicole Berrie: Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011 - Roman Holiday! (PHOTOS)
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These multimillennial thinkers are confident that copper canisters of Scandinavian design, tucked into that bedrock, will isolate the waste in an underground cavern impervious to whatever the future brings: sinking permafrost, rising water, earthquakes, copper-eating microbes, or oblivious land developers in the year 25 000.
Vox Verax
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In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats.
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New technology, a changing marketplace, and the emergence of a global economy are factors to which no nation and no economic system can remain impervious.
The Final Decade: The Outlook for Canada
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The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The grips seem to be impervious to most chemicals found on a gun cleaning table and don't show the nicks and gouges of hard use like wood or other materials.
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This is usually the result of arteritis, and may partly or wholly be impervious to the flow of blood.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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The corkiness of the bark makes it an impervious, waterproof covering that does not allow the cambium to be dried out or to be washed by external moisture.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913
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Most people seem impervious to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The author says that no pipeline, regardless of wall thickness, is impervious to failure.
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This kind of logic lies behind all conspiracy theories, with their infuriating imperviousness to counter-argument.
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It is impervious to the growth issue and always has been.
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Second, commerce is impervious to modern political boundaries.
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a material impervious to water
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He was completely impervious to criticism.
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In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats.
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I respectfully suggest that "cult like behavior" is defined as zealous advocacy that leads to magical thinking and imperviousness to fact, you simply cannot beat a Hillary true-believer.
Time Poll: Obama The Stronger Dem Against McCain
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If social conflict splits us, we diagnose a communication problem, a semantic setback on the road to common ground, a gap that can be bridged by consensus on facts and deliberation on goals; it's just too painful to think that tribal values impervious to rationality and insusceptible to compromise are the ineluctable driver of our divisions.
Marty Kaplan: Pessimism Is the Last Taboo
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Until that moment, Howard stood unmoving, seemingly impervious to the sub-freezing wind and occasional flurries of snow blown from nearby boughs, his eyes fixed upon unseen Taahas.
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Young and oddly confident, they are blind to their deficiencies and impervious to the daunting odds stacked against them.
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They were wrapped in an uncongenial and frosty imperviousness.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER
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There was one man impervious to obstacles, impatient with petty calculation, undisturbed by latent tensions: the father of the European Community , Jean Monnet.
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Young and oddly confident, they are blind to their deficiencies and impervious to the daunting odds stacked against them.
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Male attire is impervious to fashion because it is indifferent to sexual display or allure: it need not follow shifting erogenous zones.
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What Tatiana felt for Alexander was impervious to the drumbeat of conscience.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Flint looks glassy and impervious, but in fact is quite porous.
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Our council seem impervious to criticism and oblivious to basic common sense.
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No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises.
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With an almost savage twist she turned on the audio, sitting stiffly erect and motionless as the tape played back, either deaf or impervious to the biograph.
The Ship Who Sang
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_Lather_" with soft water and good soap, such as Castile, or any other good hard soap, as a barber would for shaving, and apply that to the affected part with a soft shaving brush; apply it as carefully as possible, so as to cover every part of the surface, and go over it several times, letting the former coat dry a little before applying another, forming a thick crust impervious to the air.
An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
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They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Major Benjy as well crossed her mind; she gloried in it, for he had not only caused her to deceive herself about the early hours on alternate nights, but by his infamous willingness to back up Captain Puffin's bargain, he had shown himself imperviously waterproof to all chivalrous impulses.
Miss Mapp
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This impervious drape allows a 3-sq inch opening at the femoral site and covers the patient from head to toe.
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In case of rain, they can be made very effective as impervious hoods or umbrellas.
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In the execution of my recommendations in every department of the service he was always eager, capable, in one word impervious against every temptation to ease, unwearied by any labour, fearless of every danger.
Kościuszko A Biography
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Others seem impervious to the beliefs, values and motives of people they work with.
Times, Sunday Times
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His calculations are based on ideas that do not necessarily correspond to reality and are often impervious to outside influences.
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Their bodies were protected by a vest of quilted cotton, impervious to light missiles, and over this the chiefs wore mantles of gorgeous feather-work, and the richer of them a kind of cuirass of gold or silver plates.
The True Story Book
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The big ski resorts are like bubbles that are almost impervious to bad news from the outside.
Times, Sunday Times
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They seem to be impervious to weedkillers and they spread into such inaccessible places that digging them out would be a difficult and mammoth task.
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Rubber boots are impervious to water.
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Their immaculate feathers impervious to sleet and rain, a pair of white-capped albatross engage in affectionate courtship rituals.
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They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness.
Times, Sunday Times
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They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pace and style of political change is set by what might be called the catalytic nations, radiating their influence to their immediate neighbors, prompting also imitation among the more distant, and leaving only a few isolated regions impervious to the impact of new political fashions and ideas.
Out of Control
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The entire mask is constructed of the best hardened wire, extra heavy padded with goat hair, and the padding faced with the best imported dogskin, which is impervious to perspiration, and always soft and pliable, each.
Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
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Further down in the bilge, however, no material, not even mighty bronze, is impervious to the marine environment.
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Here, surely, is a prime example of how formalism makes economists impervious to the evidence.
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The prejudice is so complete it is impervious to reason.
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Black basalt of the kind the Greeks called Cyclopean—smooth, immensely high, and impervious to rams or siege towers.
Antony and Cleopatra