impermeability

I observed and noted the resilience of the weathered tree trunks, which, despite the impermeability of the soil and a shortage of water, survived in an inhospitable setting—bravery that I never had shown.

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

While schools offer standardized testing and universities offer peer review as evidence of their impermeability, there is substantial evidence that both test scores and research results are fudged in order to meet the needs of practitioners and their well-placed sponsors.

Stephen Downes: Deinstitutionalizing Education Stephen Downes 2010

I observed and noted the resilience of the weathered tree trunks, which, despite the impermeability of the soil and a shortage of water, survived in an inhospitable setting—bravery that I never had shown.

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

I observed and noted the resilience of the weathered tree trunks, which, despite the impermeability of the soil and a shortage of water, survived in an inhospitable setting—bravery that I never had shown.

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

But years of putting her (female) humanity in deep freeze to preserve an aura of (male) impermeability was a seemingly unbreakable habit that was now crippling her: she was unable to simply be herself in public.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

But years of putting her (female) humanity in deep freeze to preserve an aura of (male) impermeability was a seemingly unbreakable habit that was now crippling her: she was unable to simply be herself in public.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

But years of putting her (female) humanity in deep freeze to preserve an aura of (male) impermeability was a seemingly unbreakable habit that was now crippling her: she was unable to simply be herself in public.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

But years of putting her (female) humanity in deep freeze to preserve an aura of (male) impermeability was a seemingly unbreakable habit that was now crippling her: she was unable to simply be herself in public.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

This material has characteristics which provide improved elasticity, impermeability and resistance.

SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Plastic Fantastic ‘Melissa Shoes’ | Inhabitat 2008

You're really going to have to find some creaky old Marxist to approach Kristol's level of intellectual impermeability (not to mention his infinite belief in the power of violence to solve problems).

Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks 2009