Impenetrable

Announcing his response to a formal consultation, Cable outlined plans for greater diversity on boards – including requiring boards to contain two people who had never had seats in boardrooms before – and to make remuneration reports, which he described as "impenetrable", easier to understand. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Even this strong man shrank from this idea and showed a very natural recoil as his glances flew about the ill-omened room and finally rested on the fireside over which so repellent a mystery hung in impenetrable shadow. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Like a cloud, like one of many that were spread in impenetrable woof over the sky, which, when the shepherd north has driven its companions "to drink Antipodean noon," fades and dissolves in the clear ether -- Such were we! ❋ Unknown (1826)

From that moment the primate of Egypt disappeared from the eyes of his enemies, and remained above six years concealed in impenetrable obscurity. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The only reason to write legislation in impenetrable legalize is a desire to hide what they’re doing from their constituents and one another (and, I suppose, tradition, upheld to preserve their ability to hide what they’re doing in the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The supreme confidence of the Romney organization - one advisor called his Florida firewall "impenetrable" - has been shaken in recent days by the former Massachusetts governor's repeated stumbles over his personal taxes. ❋ By Pa (2012)

No helmet prevented a head struck by the edges of the Crusaders 'swords from being wounded; and they found the stitching of their so-called impenetrable cuirasses too fragile. ❋ Abbot Of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert (1088)

ACE said it had consulted widely and feedback had included complaints that the current funding process was "impenetrable" and "a closed shop". ❋ Mark Brown (2010)

Philip Alston of the UN Human Rights Council charges that secret "international intelligence services" allied with local militias are killing Afghan civilians and then hiding behind an "impenetrable" wall of bureaucracy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The forest gets the name 'impenetrable' from the dense cover of herbs, vines and shrubs growing in the valley bottoms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

America's super technology will again be laughed at by the world, as young men dedicated to the survival of their people, will again outwit technology by digging deeper, and most likely penetrating the "impenetrable" in some novel, simple, low-tech way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Great Regulars: Anyway, Updike was kind of impenetrable for me. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

He said the device might read SPF 70 as "impenetrable," thus calculating a maximum sun exposure of 39 hours. ❋ Lauren Goode (2009)

"The World Trade Center created this kind of impenetrable barrier between TriBeCa and the rest of downtown," explains Yaro, who used to go to the now-defunct Washington Market in the neighborhood as a kid in the '50s. ❋ Unknown (2007)

DHS Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson, who is preparing the new draft with Joel Bagnal, the White House deputy assistant for homeland security, said in May that the old plan was "impenetrable" and that a rewrite was necessary so that "people can use it and train to it and understand it at a governor's level, at a mayor's level, at the level of a congressman." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rather than engage in a serious discussion of ideas, Ma is showing a tendency to dismiss foreigners who disagree with him as being gullible or failing to understand the 'impenetrable' mysteries of the east. ❋ Michael Turton (2006)

It's kind of impenetrable, right, so that we can make sure that no one is working here illegally. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Last night, I figured James was in trouble when the "impenetrable" knots he supposedly learned in the Navy were untied by the Koror tribe with relative ease. ❋ Unknown (2005)

1. [The woods] formed an [impenetrable] [barrier]. 2. An impenetrable legal jargon. ❋ Jafje (2007)

Dude 1: "Yo man, I heard your homeboy just got out of [the pen], did he get it up the butt at all?" Dude 2: "Nah doggy, that [mutha fucka's] ass has an [impenetrable bush], no one got near that shit." ❋ Da Vin Chee (2009)

[Ryan]: Damn, see that impenetrable fortress over there? [Andrew]: [Ouff] man, you don't stand a chance. ❋ Kldcs Nerd (2009)

[Donald Trump] said he will [build] an “impenetrable dome” to protect the US from [missile] attacks. ❋ MildredP (2023)

[The guy] is [down in the dumps] because he has recently [developed] impenetrance. ❋ Uttam Maharjan (2010)