I observed and noted the resilience of the weathered tree trunks, which, despite the impermeability of the soil and a shortage of water, survived in an inhospitable setting—bravery that I never had shown. ❋ Augusto Cury (2011)
While schools offer standardized testing and universities offer peer review as evidence of their impermeability, there is substantial evidence that both test scores and research results are fudged in order to meet the needs of practitioners and their well-placed sponsors. ❋ Stephen Downes (2010)
But years of putting her (female) humanity in deep freeze to preserve an aura of (male) impermeability was a seemingly unbreakable habit that was now crippling her: she was unable to simply be herself in public. ❋ Rebecca Traister (2010)
This material has characteristics which provide improved elasticity, impermeability and resistance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You're really going to have to find some creaky old Marxist to approach Kristol's level of intellectual impermeability (not to mention his infinite belief in the power of violence to solve problems). ❋ Unknown (2009)
In order to overcome the impermeability of barriers, Stern proposed a method of administering medications directly into the ventricles of the brain (suboccipital method), which proved its effectiveness in the treatment of the above-listed diseases. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's also a tension between suppleness and reliable impermeability. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's not just a rain suit, it's a choice representing his authentic personal brand as a statement for impermeability. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
Alcohol does not affect the impermeability of ideas. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Feminism, leftism, and libertarianism alike will not survive an ethical approach framed in terms of purification, impermeability, and abstention. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In reading it a second time yes, it is worth reading more than once, if not for the reasons mynmyn has posted it here I am struck by the, ah, how can it be described, “impermeability” of the prose. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The autotypes that hung about the room were eloquent of aesthetic ambitions and of a certain impermeability to implicit meanings. ❋ Herbert George (2004)
Her dimensions allowed of her rising to the greatest height a balloon could attain; her impermeability enabled her to remain for an indefinite time in the atmosphere; her solidity would defy any dilation of gas or violence of wind or rain; her capacity gave her sufficient ascensional force to lift with all their accessories an electric engine that would communicate to her propellers a power superior to anything yet obtained. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A series of experiments and arguments proves to every man that he, as an object of observation, is subject to certain laws, and man submits to them and never resists the laws of gravity or impermeability once he has become acquainted with them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Just setting foot in the Beachwood house is a test of one's impermeability to all things rotten. ❋ Unknown (2001)
