Impenetrability

` I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life. ' ❋ Unknown (1899)

Ideas never admit of a total union, but are endowed with a kind of impenetrability, by which they exclude each other, and are capable of forming a compound by their conjunction, not by their mixture. ❋ David Hume (1743)

`I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.' ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sometimes I find that even my best intentions are defied by the sudden impenetrability of a book I had been thoroughly enjoying but for one reason or another put down. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

There were grumblings in the audience about the length and impenetrability of the evening's entertainment, not to mention Jon Frank's melange of grim and absurd realities projected onto the screen -- "sublime bullshit" was opined in impeccable French by an especially grand grande dame -- but any concert that features a naked soprano and Barry Humphries of Dame Edna fame can't be all bad. ❋ Laurence Vittes (2011)

But corporate-trade bodies insist the impenetrability of the new Dodd-Frank language is equally unhelpful to their cause. ❋ Jean Eaglesham (2011)

The overall feeling is that of sinuosity and impenetrability and this was made possible by using carbon fiber to build the pieces. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I shook my head, wondering at her impenetrability. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

We nod and try to exchange salutations, but are hampered by the impenetrability of a native dialect I don't understand. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Methinks Kenneth oversold Telos bigtime, as we post-Marcuseans say, and the readers, condescended to outrageously by talk of its rambunctious intellectual impenetrability, reacted to their preemptive marginalization with appropriate panache. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meditation actually cultivates vulnerability, not impenetrability -- and it is right here that all the goodies reside, although it might not feel that way at first. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A breach destroys an understanding of impenetrability, some barrier that we believe, whether artificial or not, protected us from some harm. ❋ Christina Gagnier (2010)