imperviousness
Example Sentences
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Real neighborhoods continued to succumb around me, though, each one chipping away at that irrational feeling of imperviousness.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025
Then there's the imperviousness to public disgrace, disdain, degradation or humiliation.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024
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
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