Although he had raised heat enough to sear solid stone to vapour, the ice imprisoning Anskiere remained imperviously shrouded in fog. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
This is classic CF symptomology-- persistent lurking lung and sinus and ear bacteria becoming more and more antibiotic- resistant and hiding semi- imperviously in the mucus. From Wordnik.com. ["Sicker than a Doorknob"] Reference
He won his sport's pinnacle race seven times after being diagnosed with one of the world's most notorious diseases, all the while symbolizing an imperviously celestial energy. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Pina: Lance Armstrong: A Pariah on Hold] Reference
He has assumed his conclusions, ignored or dismissed what everyone has said, discovered that his conclusions match his assumptions just as he knew all along, and doubtless feels imperviously superior. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Post Chastises Smithsonian - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The great postmodern shopping malls, marble corporate palaces, and gleaming new hotels, built in the late 1980s and early 1990s when there seemed to be no end to the property boom, rose imperviously above the floods. From Wordnik.com. [Thailand: All the King's Men] Reference
"We're going to Mr. Shears, two blocks down the street." said Jared imperviously. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
In a way, Struth's dispassionate, analytic photographic style is more imperviously machinelike than the physical plants themselves. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
These include car haulage (the big trucks with 12 cars on them that blot out the sun and park imperviously in the middle of the road to unload). From Wordnik.com. [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference
Despite appearances from actual actors Carey Mulligan and Josh Brolin, the imperviously bad LaBeouf and the same-character-all-the-time Douglas make this a waste of. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Dig - Humor, News + Nightlife] Reference
He had hit his man with every punch at his disposal, connected significantly with most of them, yet here was the near-17st heavyweight moving forward bravely and almost imperviously. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
I knew then that he was in one of his fundamental moods, imperviously jolly on the surface, inflexibly Puritan underneath, and that the only thing to do was to let the subject rest until he chose to take it up in earnest. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors] Reference
It was easier to imagine the worst, and she had already pictured to herself a clandestine meeting between those passionate ones, who under cover of this darkness were imperviously concealed from any observation (beneath an umbrella) from her house-roof. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mapp] Reference
At times Braxton steps away from dramatizing the action to speak to the audience directly about the frustrations of trying to make a difference, contrasting his own upbringing as the son of a teacher, taught to respect education, with the imperviously disdainful attitude of his pupils. From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
Major Benjy as well crossed her mind; she gloried in it, for he had not only caused her to deceive herself about the early hours on alternate nights, but by his infamous willingness to back up Captain Puffin's bargain, he had shown himself imperviously waterproof to all chivalrous impulses. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mapp] Reference
With them, as with the more openly rebellious States, the new theory of "Coercion" was ingeniously arranged like a valve, yielding at the slightest impulse to the passage of forces for the subversion of legitimate authority, closing imperviously, so that no drop of power could ooze through in the opposite direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
Texas hold internet forfun ruinations imperviously torn produce whistling:stuffed. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bogus Privacy Scandal Reported in The New York Times?] Reference
"animation" scorning blithely and imperviously accumulations of insect powder, reaching back into the dim past, left there and added to by a countless procession of tortured travellers. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
The windows shut imperfectly, the heavy wooden blinds imperviously (is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?); the doors lift slantingly from the floor, in which their lower hinges are imbedded; the stoves are of plaster, and consume fuel without just return of heat; the balconies alone are always charming, whether they hang high over the streets, or look out upon the canals, and, with the gayly painted ceilings, go far to make the houses habitable. From Wordnik.com. [Venetian Life] Reference
Miss Brown held imperviously on. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18] Reference
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