impermeability

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

An essential part of Trump's malign magic is its impermeability.

Perhaps this warm reception of the Ukrainian refugees boils down to fear of Putin’s aggression and his nuclear threat, of a return to Soviet satellite states and of the impermeability of the Iron Curtain.

“The reality is that there is some impermeability with young service members. They have a tough job, they put their lives on the line,” she said.

Will opposition teams now be less intimidated by his supposed impermeability, now that Aston Villa has proved, spectacularly, that it is not necessarily a permanent state?