impermeability

Example Sentences

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There’s an obvious receptiveness to owning your own experiences, but an impermeability to what anyone else has to say about it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023

We tested the weather impermeability of the exterior lights by plugging them in and sinking the strands of lights into a 3-gallon bucket of water.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2018

PASADENA, Calif. — Until the end, Jameis Winston remained convinced of his own impermeability to reality, to the rules that govern everyone else.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2015

You roll your mind around enough in that stuff and gossamer becomes shellac, and your worldview hardens to the point of impermeability.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2013

But it did not take her long to realize that he was as insensible to her begging as the colonel would have been, and that they were armored by the same impermeability of affection.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez