Sentence examples for Once immutable from inspiring English sources

Thus the once immutable "invisible" system lost its special status forever.

As soon as you change the frame of reference, you've changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Smash Hits and Top of the Pops vanished - things once thought immutable.

Mr. Newman even finds references to alchemy in Darwin's theory of evolution, in which animal species -- once considered immutable -- are transformed (metaphorically speaking) by the alchemical pressures of the natural environment.

Still showing at Norwich cathedral, the exhibition proposes affinities between Norfolk and the Hebrides by focusing on aspects of local culture – including places of worship and boat-building workshops – which, in Denyer's words, "represent ideas and habits once considered immutable and which now struggle against an increasingly mechanised and secular society".

She raises her brows in childlike glee, or shrugs her shoulders while delivering some outdated item of gossip, displaying, at once, an immutable emotional instinct and a loosening of the formal apparatus, constructed over so many years, that used to help get it across.

Structures once considered immutable collapsed so easily that people can only gaze at the debris in bovine disbelief, with a hollow feeling where their viscera should be.

A data structure similar to the list is the tuple, which is like a list except that it is immutable once it is created (i.e. you cannot change its content once created).

Film is immutable once it's in the can — metaphorically speaking, in this digital age.

"The present-day grim reality clearly proves once again the immutable truth that one's destiny should be defended by one's own efforts.

The crowning achievement of YouTube, which showed nine billion videos in a single month last year, may be that it has flouted what was once considered the immutable law of the Internet: All images online eventually turn to pornography.