All 13 Uses of
impervious
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She had thought him impervious to shock; he wasn't.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- He came to believe the doctrine that this desire was wholly physical, a desire, not of consciousness, but of matter, and he rebelled against the thought that his flesh could be free to choose and that its choice was impervious to the will of his mind.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was the kind of truck that fed the power station-a tank truck, its bright new paint impervious to sleet, green with white letters: Wyatt Oil, Colorado.†
Chpt 1.7
- …would never have the right to leavethe thought that he owed her at least the feeble recognition of sympathy, of respect for a feeling he could neither understand nor returnthe knowledge that he could summon nothing for her, except contempt, a strange, total, unreasoning contempt, impervious to pity, to reproach, to his own pleas for justice-and, hardest to bear, the proud revulsion against his own verdict, against his demand that he consider himself lower than this woman he despised.†
Chpt 1.10
- The secretary was an elderly spinster with a forbidding manner: a manner of even-toned courtesy impervious to any shock, just as her spotless white blouse was impervious to an atmosphere filled with coal dust.†
Chpt 2.3
- The secretary was an elderly spinster with a forbidding manner: a manner of even-toned courtesy impervious to any shock, just as her spotless white blouse was impervious to an atmosphere filled with coal dust.†
Chpt 2.3
- Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers.†
Chpt 2.4
- He thought that she had become impervious to anything.†
Chpt 2.8
- Watching him at tonight's reception, Taggart had concluded that the man was impervious to any sort of feeling, he looked as if a knife could slash, unnoticed, through his pendulous layers of flesh-except that there was a lewd, almost sexual relish in the way he rubbed his feet against the rich pile of his Persian rugs, or patted the polished arm of his chair, or folded his lips about a cigar.†
Chpt 3.4
- And confronting her daily there was the final product of it all, the heir and collector-Cuffy Meigs, the man impervious to thought.†
Chpt 3.5
- …man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness, and that he may permit no breach between body and mind, between action and thought, between his life and his convictions-that, like a judge impervious to public opinion, he may not sacrifice his convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole of mankind shouting pleas or threats against him-that courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of…†
Chpt 3.7
- Then you wonder why your children join the People's thugs or become half-crazed delinquents, you wonder why the looters' conquests keep creeping closer to your doors-and you blame it on human stupidity, declaring that the masses are impervious to reason.†
Chpt 3.7
- He's impervious to fear.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(impervious) not admitting passage through; or not capable of being affected