How To Use Pervious In A Sentence

It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings. Times, Sunday Times
Over the last couple of years, he had become impervious to the disrespect and ignorance of his classmates.
His ego was impervious to self-doubt.
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
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.
The basal layer, like the superficial layer, is porose, but its pores are not pervious to air.
State-Zionism is an ideology based on an absolute conviction, one impervious to history and experience, to emendation and to compromise.
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
My heart goes out to particular moments and people, both recent and distant, and holds on for dear life, impervious to happiness or unhappiness.
As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough. The Sun
The Monitor proved impervious to the Virginia's broadsides and captured the imaginations of naval officials and the public.
The transparent bisulphide, which is highly pervious to invisible heat, exercises on it the same absorption as the perfectly opaque solution. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha. The Times Literary Supplement
He was completely impervious to criticism.
For example, the taste for discrimination may be endogenous to a particular society and consequently relatively impervious to competition.
The few westerners she knew seemed impervious to the muffled warnings of her Chinese friends. Times, Sunday Times
This time, he had posted several titles of fantasy books on the chalkboard, and then let us imperviously vote.
When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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
The use of impervious surfaces (like pavement and concrete) can be minimized and replaced with pervious surfaces (like stone and gravel) whenever possible.
Yet from our plane window, we can see idyllic seaside villages seemingly impervious to the devastation that has swept the region.
If the Mass is considered as a kind of production process, it again proves impervious to economic and cultural fads. Christianity Today
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.
He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The administration seems indifferent to data, impervious to competing viewpoints and ideas.
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.
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
The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled.
The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha. The Times Literary Supplement
The two Virginians were shrewd men with an imperviously close bond and an impressive degree of patience and self-control.
Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home. Times, Sunday Times
It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings. Times, Sunday Times
And in the rivers, where the deceivers, fraudful both in heart and word, had shown unto the saint a deep abyss instead of a safe ford, passed he over safely, having first blessed the passage, and changed the abyss into a ford; and the ford which before was pervious unto all changed he unto a deep abyss. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
It seems obvious to them and impervious to more complicated arguments.
Lumps in a starch paste are caused by clumps of granules gelatinizing on their outsides and becoming impervious.
Others seem impervious to the beliefs, values and motives of people they work with. Times, Sunday Times
But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious. Times, Sunday Times
The Japanese economy is supposed to be impervious to market forces.
The element in our last kettle was impervious to descaler and had started to resemble a chilly tundra.
But the inertron shell of my swooper was impervious to the disintegrator ray. The Airlords of Han
They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness. Times, Sunday Times
The floorcovering you select will need to be impervious to water.
Impervious surface moisture in building a permanent waterproof layer.
Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home. Times, Sunday Times
A palmate newt – its impervious gaze scanned minute horizons between the worlds of water and air. Country Diary: Wenlock Edge
All around it is limestone, which anyone who has studied geography at school will know is pervious and water disappears through it, the area of the tarn lays on Silurian Slate, hence the reason for this magnificent sheet of water.
Rainwater harvesting also lessens local erosion and flooding caused by impervious cover such as pavement and roof.
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.
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
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
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
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
In other words, it's not impervious to moisture but it will get you through an afternoon cloudburst.
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
She seems almost impervious to the criticism from all sides.
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.
The administration seems indifferent to data, impervious to competing viewpoints and ideas.
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
Ingeminating my pervious post is so much fun.
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
The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Rocky also seemed impervious to pain. The Sun
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.
‘We'll have to get police escorts for you, sir,’ the soldier said imperviously.
It gives them an air of superiority that makes them seem impervious to other people's feelings. Times, Sunday Times
So is domination down to a rhino-hide skin, an impervious soul and an unfaltering belief in yourself? Times, Sunday Times
If the Mass is considered as a kind of production process, it again proves impervious to economic and cultural fads. Christianity Today
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
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.
He was not without humour, but completely impervious to Jane's irony.
The Japanese economy is supposed to be impervious to market forces.
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?
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
This can be due to increasing confining pressure (mechanical compaction), tectonic stress in impervious sediments or hydrothermal activity.
He reached out with almost omnipotent power and smote his enemies, remaining impervious to their counterattack (only some of the minions died).
He is impervious to criticism and rational argument.
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.
Our council seem impervious to criticism and oblivious to basic common sense.
Yet Young insisted that he and his players remained impervious to the uncertainty over their future home. Times, Sunday Times
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
This material is impervious to gases and liquids.
It is petulantly impervious to innovation or the very idea of gustatory progress. Times, Sunday Times
someone impervious to argument
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
In the absence of the Islamic state, zakat is given directly by the individual zakat payers to those stated in the pervious verse of the Quran.
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
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.
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
We love taverns because they're unpretentious and appear to be impervious to the mainstream.
While the Savoy remains one of the more traditional tearooms in London, even this traditional establishment is not impervious to modernisation.
She is strangely dissociated from her husband, whose disembodied voice, imperviously reciting poetry, ‘struck close upon her ears.’
We're going to Mr. Shears, two blocks down the street." said Jared imperviously. Under the Skylights
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"
While many of these seemingly impervious works belong to Mozart, Verdi’s Falstaff is another. Archive 2008-08-01
Although he had raised heat enough to sear solid stone to vapour, the ice imprisoning Anskiere remained imperviously shrouded in fog. Shadowfane
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
The top sheet is formed of a fluid pervious material, e.g., a fibrous material.
It is indoctrination Misguided pride leaves us impervious to any version of success that does not bear the patent of our system.
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
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
A green sod roof reduces runoff from impermeable surfaces, while a pervious parking lot allows infiltration of water into the ground.
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
When did we begin to allow, let alone forgive, let alone encourage work that is so rhetorical, so impervious to public engagement?
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.
As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough. The Sun
How does glue bond with impervious substances like glass and metal?
a metal pervious to heat
I can be impervious to some of the hurtful things in the press.
The press was completely impervious to the presentation of evidence that might in any way be seen as exonerating the President.
The pervious or impervious boundary conditions are just special cases in this paper.
Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts. Times, Sunday Times
A hardpan or impervious layer of soil (called caliche in the Southwest's low deserts) might be the cause.
Rocky also seemed impervious to pain. The Sun
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.
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
The Japanese economy is supposed to be impervious to market forces.
Ultimately, the child loses self-esteem, leaving an impression to the outside world that he is impervious to rehabilitation.
How does glue bond with impervious substances like glass and metal?
The City of Seattle currently credits pervious surfaces as stormwater management reduction.
The floors and doors on the main floor are of solid mahogany, which is impervious to tropical woodworms and termites.
A hardpan or impervious layer of soil (called caliche in the Southwest's low deserts) might be the cause.
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.
Others seem impervious to the beliefs, values and motives of people they work with. Times, Sunday Times
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
How does glue bond with impervious substances like glass and metal?
The big ski resorts are like bubbles that are almost impervious to bad news from the outside. Times, Sunday Times
pervious soil
The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience. Times, Sunday Times
Zinc metal used in the galvanizing process provides an impervious barrier between the steel substrate and corrosive elements in the atmosphere.
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
They seem impervious to everything, even poison.
Recently, our regional promotion groups have identified what they think of as emerging opportunity in the area of pervious pavements.
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.
Bright impervious surfaces in plaster, white paint, vitreous enamel, glass or stainless steel are not just cleanable but seen to be clean.
He was not entirely impervious to new evidence, however.
Few roots will grow beneath an impervious surface such as a roadway.
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
But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious. Times, Sunday Times
He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image. Times, Sunday Times
He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image. Times, Sunday Times
What we're doing is taking some areas that used to be pervious and we're putting a [residence] building there, so the water now gets captured.
One consequence was the Chinese determination "to prove their imperviousness to outside pressure.
Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts. Times, Sunday Times
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
Because of the very low water-cement ratio and the open matrix that allows air movement through the concrete matrix, pervious concrete can dry out very quickly.
Most people seem impervious to it. Times, Sunday Times
Their loyalty was total, making them largely impervious to recruitment attempts. Times, Sunday Times
The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience. Times, Sunday Times
But I feel a stirring of pride that so many of my countrymen have seen the hype - and remained impervious. Times, Sunday Times
As he appears to be impervious to reason, you need to get tough. The Sun
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.
The few westerners she knew seemed impervious to the muffled warnings of her Chinese friends. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately I think the American military establishment seems largely impervious to overwhelming American sentiment against the war.
Fund managers back them loyally, impervious to quarterly performance tables. Times, Sunday Times
Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks ... Cheney named Conservative of the Year
The coatings are weldable and impervious to automotive and hydraulic fluids.
Most people seem impervious to it. Times, Sunday Times
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...
Bright impervious surfaces in plaster, white paint, vitreous enamel, glass or stainless steel are not just cleanable but seen to be clean.
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.
Her signature fiery coiffure is impervious to circumstantial weather!) Nicole Berrie: Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011 - Roman Holiday! (PHOTOS)
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
In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats.
Taking as a model the expression 'transparent' for the perviousness of a substance to light, we may say that the air, when in a state of acoustic vibration, becomes 'trans-audient' for astral impulses, and that the nature of these vibrations determines which particular impulses are let through. Man or Matter
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
The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha. The Times Literary Supplement
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.
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
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
Most people seem impervious to it. Times, Sunday Times
The author says that no pipeline, regardless of wall thickness, is impervious to failure.
This kind of logic lies behind all conspiracy theories, with their infuriating imperviousness to counter-argument.
It is impervious to the growth issue and always has been.
Second, commerce is impervious to modern political boundaries.
a material impervious to water
He was completely impervious to criticism.
In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats.
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
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
In the latter state, catheterism is useless, and the only means whereby the urethra may be rendered pervious in the proper direction is that of incising the stricture from the perinaeum, and after passing a catheter across the divided part into the bladder, to retain the instrument in this situation till the wound and the fistulae heal and close under the treatment proper for this end. Surgical Anatomy
Decks would be counted as pervious, or absorbent, if they include slats between planks and are built over a pervious surface such as dirt or uncompacted gravel.
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.
Invasive plants, such as privet, will be removed and a pervious walkway will be installed. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Young and oddly confident, they are blind to their deficiencies and impervious to the daunting odds stacked against them.
They were wrapped in an uncongenial and frosty imperviousness. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
There was one man impervious to obstacles, impatient with petty calculation, undisturbed by latent tensions: the father of the European Community , Jean Monnet.
In examining the right lung, the upper, and part of the middle lobe were pervious to air, and carried on, though defectively, the function of respiration, while the interlobular cellular tissue contained the infiltrated carbon. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
Young and oddly confident, they are blind to their deficiencies and impervious to the daunting odds stacked against them.
Male attire is impervious to fashion because it is indifferent to sexual display or allure: it need not follow shifting erogenous zones.
What Tatiana felt for Alexander was impervious to the drumbeat of conscience. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
Flint looks glassy and impervious, but in fact is quite porous.
Our council seem impervious to criticism and oblivious to basic common sense.
No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises.
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
The parking lot uses pervious limestone and is landscaped with indigenous plants.
As examples of the former may be mentioned that in which the organ is deficient in front, and has become everted and protruded like a fungous mass through an opening at the median line of the hypogastrium; that in which the rectum terminates in the bladder posteriorly; and that in which the foetal urachus remains pervious as a uniform canal, or assumes a sacculated shape between the summit of the bladder and the umbilicus. Surgical Anatomy

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