The Only Use of
impervious
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A Separate Peace
- ...and under the pale night glow the playing fields swept away from me... They unrolled away impervious to me as though I were a roaming ghost, not only tonight but always, as though I had never played on them a hundred times, as though my feet had never touched them, as though my whole life at Devon had been a dream, or rather that everything at Devon, the playing fields, the gym, the water hole, and all the other buildings and all the people there were intensely real, wildly alive and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything.
p. 186.4impervious = not capable of being affected (by)
Definition:
not admitting passage through; or not capable of being affected