immutable

in a sentence

A philosopher, as we have seen, tries to grasp something that is eternal and immutable.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Vellya Paapen climbed up the kitchen steps and offered her his mortgaged eye. He held it out in the palm of his hand. He said he didn't deserve it and wanted her to have it back. His left eyelid drooped over his empty socket in an immutable, monstrous wink.  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

Carrie had been going to school with some of them since the first grade, and this had been building since that time, building slowly and immutably, in accordance with all the laws that govern human nature,  (source) Stephen King, Carrie, 1974

Here the dwarves had reworked the seemingly immutable Beors into a series of terraces.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

He was firm and determined and went blindly and obstinately for his object, if once he had been brought by any reasons (and they were often very illogical ones) to believe that it was immutably right.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.  (source) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1902

Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

assumptions of immutable inferiority originating in an outside gaze.  (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970

"She is a woman of conventions and proprieties," he said to himself as he looked at her; "her world is the world of things immutably decreed.†  (source) Henry James, The American, 1877

The general characteristics of all theocratic architecture are immutability, horror of progress, the preservation of traditional lines, the...  (source) Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831

Mountaineering, she understood, was an essential expression of some odd immutable aspect of my personality that I could no sooner alter than change the color of my eyes.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved — as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property — as they must in their own hearts have felt the equity of the intention; and must, besides, have been innately conscious that in my place they would have done precisely what I wished to do — they yielded at length so far as to consent to put the affair to arbitration.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Already in her posture and in her steady pedal strokes there were signs of a certain immutability.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009