imperviousness

At a subsequent session, the group ranked each Republican on a scale of 1 to 10 in four categories: capability, trust, devotion and what they called their imperviousness to material and spiritual corruption.

Iowa's Evangelical Rift Neil King Jr. 2011

But her ironies were as ineffectual as her arguments, and his imperviousness was the more exasperating because she divined that some of the things she said would have hurt him if any one else had said them: it was the fact of their coming from her that made them innocuous.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

This value did not does not? exist for Generation X because of that generation's "imperviousness" to marketing, particularly from majors.

Are You a Millenial? 2007

There is, I guess, a certain kind of imperviousness to reality that takes hold of that 30% of the population....

Too agreeable. Ann Althouse 2007

This value did not does not? exist for Generation X because of that generation's "imperviousness" to marketing, particularly from majors.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

He embraced that quaint otherness, his imperviousness to fashion or fads.

Paterno's Unsettled Goodbye Jason Gay 2012

How can you beat nudity, magical imperviousness to fire and cross-species motherhood?

Top Moments: The Killing Is All Wet, Tom Hanks' Hips Don't Lie, Thrones Breathes Fire 2011

Such dogmatism and imperviousness to evidence are hallmarks of the authoritarian mind.

College Rape Accusations and the Presumption of Male Guilt Peter Berkowitz 2011

I had already drawn attention by my aloofness and imperviousness to the attacks of the ki-sang, so that many were looking on at the eunuch's baiting of me.

Chapter 15 2010

This demonstrates another antirust principle: It's imperviousness to embarrassment.

The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011