etched in stone

“His is but one story of many whose names are etched in stone on our memorial.”

“I have nothing that’s truly etched in stone, except what is truly right,” Garvey said of his own ideology at the late-January debate hosted by Politico.

A society of isolated yetis lives high in the snowy mountains, and their community has a set of strict laws that are etched in stone, literally.

The overall and bowl records would be etched in stone, with game No. 10,733 and bowl No. 313 in the hands of an eminently capable Washington team playing for a national championship.

That earthiness helps make a song that was already part of the modern folk pantheon seem eternal, as if etched in stone.