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  • It was the urge to defy reality by the destruction of every living value, for the sake of proving to himself that he could exist in defiance of reality and would never have to be bound by any solid, immutable facts.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • This is an immutable, true everywhere, throughout all time, for all men and all nations.   (source)
    immutable = something not subject or susceptible to change
  • we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact-that we, Rosencrantz and Guildenstem, bearing a letter from one king to another, are taking Hamlet to England.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • If you wanted a good laugh and a poke in the ribs, you went to Jenny's and got your money's worth; but if the sweet world-sadness close to tears crept out of your immutable loneliness, the Long Green was your place.   (source)
  • Out of death, life; an immutable truth.   (source)
  • She believed that details could excitingly be altered, but that things-in-general were comely and kind and immutable.   (source)
  • When I thought of the heavy rains and looked at the gaping roof I understood how strong and immutable must be the purpose which had kept him in that inhospitable abode.   (source)
    immutable = not susceptible to change
  • 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)
    immutability = quality of being unchangeable
  • Victor Lebrun objected; and his decrees were as immutable as those of Fate.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must begin in blood, whatever may answer afterward.   (source)
  • 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)
    immutably = in a manner that is unchangeable
  • My friend would then turn to me, quiet and pale, and would say, 'No, sir; that is impossible: I cannot do it, because it is wrong;' and would become immutable as a fixed star.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • In comparison with cities, Weatherbury was immutable.   (source)
    immutable = unchanging
  • To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.   (source)
  • This day your death stands near, and your immutable end, at Prince Akhilleus' hands.   (source)
  • Things that had been immutable were changing.†   (source)
  • We expected them to return within a week, tails between their legs, humbled by the immutable nature of nature.†   (source)
  • Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality.†   (source)
  • It was the law of the machine, as immutable as the forces that propelled the Chicago Limited across the prairie.†   (source)
  • Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.†   (source)
  • But if they baked it and drove out all the water, sterilized Enki's semen with heat, then the tablet lasted forever, immutable, like the words of the Torah.†   (source)
  • Marcos smiled his immutable smile before the avalanche of questions and posed for photographers without offering the least technical or scientific explanation of how he hoped to carry out his plan.†   (source)
  • IJAZ: prophecy that by its very nature cannot be denied; immutable prophecy.†   (source)
  • It was as epic and immutable as the enterprise on which the girl had been forced to embark and, as the miles went by, Annie could only marvel at her stamina.†   (source)
  • If culture were immutable, China would still be impoverished and Sheryl would be stumbling along on three-inch feet.†   (source)
  • Already in her posture and in her steady pedal strokes there were signs of a certain immutability.†   (source)
  • These budding drug lords bumped up against an immutable law of labor: when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well.†   (source)
  • Buildings and featureless shapes flowed by him noiselessly as though borne past immutably on the surface of some rank and timeless tide.†   (source)
  • It was the immutable tango between the Dumper and the Dumpee: the coming and the seeing and the conquering and the returning home.†   (source)
  • He did not think that his mother was wandering among them, though, that they were immutable, unreachable, and incomprehensible led him to allow that he might be wrong.†   (source)
  • For while I'm certain this sort of sad diminishment befalls every aging gentleman and —woman, and even those who once held modest position in the town's day, I am beginning to suspect, too, that in my case it's not only the blur of time and modern life's general expectation of senescence, but rather the enduring and immutable fact of what I am, if not who; the simple constancy of my face.†   (source)
  • Even the laughter of Irishmen was sad, they said, shrugging their shoulders as though they had invoked some immutable law of nature.†   (source)
  • After these first warnings, signs of death will quickly multiply, until, in obedience to immutable laws, stark winter with its ice is here.†   (source)
  • NORFOLK Oh, that's immutable, is it?†   (source)
  • The head, the hand, dwelt in completion, immutable, indestructible: motionless.†   (source)
  • Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.†   (source)
  • Everyone waited for the ground to shake. That was still an immutable fact, but at least they were distracted now, by the girl with the book.   (source)
    immutable = not subject to change
  • His manner was immutable; it was the same in a drawing room, at a labor meeting, on a lecture platform, in the bathroom or during sexual intercourse:   (source)
    immutable = unchanging
  • You are the immutable vulgar young female.   (source)
    immutable = unable to be improved
  • The general characteristics of all theocratic architecture are immutability, horror of progress, the preservation of traditional lines, the...   (source)
    immutability = the quality of being unchangeable
  • 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)
    immutably = in a manner that is unchangeable
  • The blue lake and snow-clad mountains—they never change; and I think our placid home and our contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable laws.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg.   (source)
    immutableness = quality of being unchangeable
  • …me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.†   (source)
  • But the "form" of the horse is eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • Increasingly, he began to doubt that all species were immutable.†   (source)
  • Slow and immutable, they appeared at the door carrying an enormous vessel sealed with clay.†   (source)
  • He also agreed that the actual form of the horse is eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • But behind everything that flowed there were some eternal and immutable things that did not flow.†   (source)
  • He tried to grasp a "reality" that was eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • The immutability of animal species was also one of the cornerstones of Aristotle's philosophy.†   (source)
  • Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete.†   (source)
  • The deadline was immutable.†   (source)
  • Cinzia, who at any given time had a dozen or more part-time cleaning jobs, worked only a few hours a week in the building, not that I'd even been thinking about Cinzia until the moment before, but it had all seemed so solid, so immutable, the whole social system of the building, a nexus where I could always stop in and see people, say hello, find out what was going on.†   (source)
  • Transito Soto had made French sitting rooms with quilted furniture, mangers with fresh hay and papier-mache horses that observed the lovers with their immutable glass eyes, prehistoric caves with real stalactites, and telephones covered with the skins of pumas.†   (source)
  • This world of ideas cannot be perceived by the senses, but the ideas (or forms) are eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • No Innate Ideas Like the philosophers before him, Plato wanted to find the eternal and immutable in the midst of all change.†   (source)
  • He therefore assumed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks, each of which was eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • It is all very reminiscent of Plato's distinction between the concrete world of the senses and the immutable world of ideas.†   (source)
  • But however infinite they might be in number and shape, they were all eternal, immutable, and indivisible.†   (source)
  • Plato's conception was of eternal and immutable patterns, spiritual and abstract in their nature that all things are fashioned after.†   (source)
  • Plato's theory of ideas presupposed that all animal species were immutable because they were made after patterns of eternal ideas or forms.†   (source)
  • In the midst of nature's cycle there were some eternal and immutable smallest elements that did not dissolve, they thought.†   (source)
  • He therefore assumed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks, each of which was eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • He is concerned with both what is eternal and immutable in nature and what is eternal and immutable as regards morals and society.†   (source)
  • That which is eternal and immutable, to Plato, is therefore not a physical "basic substance," as it was for Empedocles and Democritus.†   (source)
  • By using our common sense we can all arrive at these immutable norms, since human reason is in fact eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • He called this reality the world of ideas; it contained the eternal and immutable "patterns" behind the various phenomena we come across in nature.†   (source)
  • And yet in one sense, even Socrates and the Sophists were preoccupied with the relationship between the eternal and immutable, and the "flowing."†   (source)
  • Briefly, we can establish that Plato was concerned with the relationship between what is eternal and immutable, on the one hand, and what "flows," on the other.†   (source)
  • Now the Enlightenment philosophers saw it as their duty to lay a foundation for morals, religion, and ethics in accordance with man's immutable reason.†   (source)
  • Absolutely everything that belongs to the "material world" is made of a material that time can erode, but everything is made after a timeless "mold" or "form" that is eternal and immutable.†   (source)
  • Both in ecclesiastic and scientific circles, the Biblical doctrine of the immutability of all vegetable and animal species was strictly adhered to.†   (source)
  • He took solace in the fact that his identity was not immutable; he could improve himself if he wished.†   (source)
  • After Kid Sampson's legs, he would think of pitiful, whimpering Snowden freezing to death in the rear section of the plane, holding his eternal, immutable secret concealed inside his quilted, armor-plate flak suit until Yossarian had finished sterilizing and bandaging the wrong wound on his leg, and then spilling it out suddenly all over the floor.†   (source)
  • These three men who hated him spoke his language and wore his uniform, but he saw their loveless faces set immutably into cramped, mean lines of hostility and understood instantly that nowhere in the world, not in all the fascist tanks or planes or submarines, not in the bunkers behind the machine guns or mortars or behind the blowing flame throwers, not even among all the expert gunners of the crack Hermann Goering Antiaircraft Division or among the grisly connivers in all the beer halls in Munich and everywhere else, were there men who hated him more.†   (source)
  • I would have stopped the freighter near the buoy to Fort Sumter, turned it about, and presented its constant immutable approach to the city as a gift to Annie Kate, a ship that would never leave her.†   (source)
  • Against the hidden other flanks of the immutable hills the world washed like a vast and shadowy sea, alive with the great fish of his imagining.†   (source)
  • For a week now he has lurked and crept among its secret places, yet he remained a foreigner to the very immutable laws which earth must obey.†   (source)
  • Then, she remembered, she had laid her head on Mrs. Ramsay's lap and laughed and laughed and laughed, laughed almost hysterically at the thought of Mrs. Ramsay presiding with immutable calm over destinies which she completely failed to understand.†   (source)
  • From the standpoint of the Olympians, eon after eon of earthly history rolls by, revealing ever the harmonious form of the total round, so that where men see only change and death, the blessed behold immutable form, world without end.†   (source)
  • Arjuna said: "O Lord, if you think me able to behold it, then, 0 master of yogis, reveal to me your Immutable Self " The Lord said: Behold my forms by the hundreds and the thousands—manifold and divine, various in shape and hue.†   (source)
  • He turned his face up to her as a prisoner who recovers light, as a man long pent in darkness who bathes himself in the great pool of dawn, as a blind man who feels upon his eyes the white core and essence of immutable brightness.†   (source)
  • And however vaguely, confusedly, and casually they approached this complete disruption of their life together, the rooting up of their clamorous home, when the hour of departures came, the elements resolved themselves immutably and without hesitation.†   (source)
  • A fixed, immutable, hopeless bitterness abided with him.†   (source)
  • His face revealed no more than the same old hard, immutable character.†   (source)
  • The permanent and the immutable are persistent.†   (source)
  • He alone did not obey the law of immutability in the enchanted, sleeping castle.†   (source)
  • The actions of men are subject to general immutable laws expressed in statistics.†   (source)
  • The steel-blue, piercing intensity of the Mormon's gaze impressed him at a moment when all that older generation of Mormons looked as hard and immutable as iron.†   (source)
  • Yet somewhere out on the oasis trail rode a man who, once turned from the saving of life to the lust to kill, would be as immutable as death itself.†   (source)
  • They whispered that it was a great, grim, immutable earth; that time was eternity; that life was fleeting.†   (source)
  • Wildness, beauty, and loneliness were there, the same as ever, immutable, like the spirit of those heights.†   (source)
  • She would never understand his craving for ease and luxury, for beauty, for love—his particular kind of love that went with show, pleasure, wealth, position, his eager and immutable aspirations and desires.†   (source)
  • He had not even smiled when she first entered the room; and that immobility, that immutability in his expression said everything.†   (source)
  • life, hours almost enchanted, in the same manner as these other, following hours, in which he drove through a deserted Paris by the light of the moon: noticing as he drove home that the satellite had now changed its position, relatively to his own, and was almost touching the horizon; feeling that his love, also, was obedient to these immutable laws of nature, he asked himself whether this period, upon which he had entered, was to last much longer, whether presently his mind's eye would cease to behold that dear countenance, save as occupying a distant and diminished position, and on the verge of ceasing to shed on him the radiance of its charm.†   (source)
  • If that secret, intangible power closed its toils round her again, if that great invisible hand moved here and there and everywhere, slowly paralyzing her with its mystery and its inconceivable sway over her affairs, then she would know beyond doubt that it was not chance, nor jealousy, nor intimidation, nor ministerial wrath at her revolt, but a cold and calculating policy thought out long before she was born, a dark, immutable will of whose empire she and all that was hers was but an atom.†   (source)
  • Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow, according to the conditions, according to your will, your sentiments, which in turn are controlled by an intellect that shows them to you today in one manner and tomorrow...who knows how?†   (source)
  • This whole act's immutably decreed.†   (source)
  • In France the constitution is (or at least is supposed to be) immutable; and the received theory is that no power has the right of changing any part of it.†   (source)
  • "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)
  • Fortunes, opinions, and laws are there in ceaseless variation: it is as if immutable nature herself were mutable, such are the changes worked upon her by the hand of man.†   (source)
  • If it be so difficult to root out an inequality which solely originates in the law, how are those distinctions to be destroyed which seem to be based upon the immutable laws of Nature herself?†   (source)
  • in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear!†   (source)
  • A part, therefore, of the French constitution is immutable, because it is united to the destiny of a family; and the body of the constitution is equally immutable, because there appear to be no legal means of changing it.†   (source)
  • On returning to France, to the bosom of the great, strong, magnificent, peaceful, and glorious fatherland, I should have proclaimed her frontiers immutable; all future wars purely defensive, all aggrandizement antinational.†   (source)
  • To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake!†   (source)
  • For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.†   (source)
  • An American constitution is not supposed to be immutable as in France, nor is it susceptible of modification by the ordinary powers of society as in England.†   (source)
  • To begin with the most important of all the laws, that which decides the order of succession to the throne; what can be more immutable in its principle than a political order founded upon the natural succession of father to son?†   (source)
  • Before it can perpetrate innovation, certain primal and immutable principles are laid down, and the boldest conceptions of human device are subjected to certain forms which retard and stop their completion.†   (source)
  • Among the opinions and voices in this immense, restless, brilliant, and proud sphere, Prince Andrew noticed the following sharply defined subdivisions of tendencies and parties: The first party consisted of Pfuel and his adherents—military theorists who believed in a science of war with immutable laws—laws of oblique movements, outflankings, and so forth.†   (source)
  • Appendix L The immutability of the constitution of France is a necessary consequence of the laws of that country.†   (source)
  • If, in the midst of this general disruption, you do not succeed in connecting the notion of rights with that of personal interest, which is the only immutable point in the human heart, what means will you have of governing the world except by fear?†   (source)
  • Pfuel was one of those hopelessly and immutably self-confident men, self-confident to the point of martyrdom as only Germans are, because only Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion—science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth.†   (source)
  • From this fundamental difference between the view held by history and that held by jurisprudence, it follows that jurisprudence can tell minutely how in its opinion power should be constituted and what power—existing immutably outside time—is, but to history's questions about the meaning of the mutations of power in time it can answer nothing.†   (source)
  • As the noble never suspected that anyone would attempt to deprive him of the privileges which he believed to be legitimate, and as the serf looked upon his own inferiority as a consequence of the immutable order of nature, it is easy to imagine that a mutual exchange of good-will took place between two classes so differently gifted by fate.†   (source)
  • ...to observe
    Immutably his sovran will,   (source)
    immutably = in a manner that is unchangeable
  • Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, Could'st by a breath annul and override The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.   (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
  • In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added, for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221 years th†   (source)
  • Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.†   (source)
  • The Lawes of Nature are Immutable and Eternall, For Injustice, Ingratitude, Arrogance, Pride, Iniquity, Acception of persons, and the rest, can never be made lawfull.†   (source)
  • For though a wrong Sentence given by authority of the Soveraign, if he know and allow it, in such Lawes as are mutable, be a constitution of a new Law, in cases, in which every little circumstance is the same; yet in Lawes immutable, such as are the Lawes of Nature, they are no Lawes to the same, or other Judges, in the like cases for ever after.†   (source)
  • expressed
    Immutable, when thou wert lost, not I;
    Who might have lived, and joyed immortal bliss,
    Yet willingly chose rather death with thee?†   (source)
  • God made thee perfect, not immutable;
    And good he made thee, but to persevere
    He left it in thy power; ordained thy will
    By nature free, not over-ruled by fate
    Inextricable, or strict necessity:
    Our voluntary service he requires,
    Not our necessitated; such with him
    Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how
    Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve
    Willing or no, who will but what they must
    By destiny, and can no other choose?†   (source)
  • By which Definition it is evident, that we are not to account as any part thereof, that originall knowledge called Experience, in which consisteth Prudence: Because it is not attained by Reasoning, but found as well in Brute Beasts, as in Man; and is but a Memory of successions of events in times past, wherein the omission of every little circumstance altering the effect, frustrateth the expectation of the most Prudent: whereas nothing is produced by Reasoning aright, but generall, eternall, and immutable Truth.†   (source)
  • Thee, Father, first they sung Omnipotent,
    Immutable, Immortal, Infinite,
    Eternal King; the Author of all being,
    Fountain of light, thyself invisible
    Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit'st
    Throned inaccessible, but when thou shadest
    The full blaze of thy beams, and, through a cloud
    Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine,
    Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear,
    Yet dazzle Heaven, that brightest Seraphim
    Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.†   (source)
  • So without least impulse or shadow of fate,
    Or aught by me immutably foreseen,
    They trespass, authors to themselves in all
    Both what they judge, and what they choose; for so
    I form'd them free: and free they must remain,
    Till they enthrall themselves; I else must change
    Their nature, and revoke the high decree
    Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain'd
    Their freedom: they themselves ordain'd their fall.†   (source)
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