imperviousness

Example Sentences

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Talarico’s personality is something very different, a smiling appeal to the better angels of the electorate’s nature, and seemingly imperviousness to insults and attacks.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Maybe she had a false sense of imperviousness, given all the times the house on Roca Chica Drive escaped, unscathed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

That’s the reason she survived “Xanadu” — the musical belch, from 1980, with her as a Greek muse on roller skates: an imperviousness to the surrounding absurdity.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022

And yet what’s expected of Biles upon arrival here is imperviousness, an ability to ball all that up and toss it to the side.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2021

Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor