The apparent immovability of both the opposition and the government leaves a real chance of a further deterioration in security, especially if the police or army kill any more protestors.
Perhaps anticipating the protests that may ensue, the prime minister's first announcements have concentrated on strengthening the controls that his office and the Treasury will exert on the rest of the government.But immovability will not suffice.
Gately looks less built than poured, with the smooth immovability of an Easter Island statue.
Craig was in his mid-twenties, "sober and just huge," as Wallace would later write in "Infinite Jest," looking "less built than poured, the smooth immovability of an Easter Island statue".
At 6 feet 4 inches, rangy and creative, Nash is to older fans an amalgam of Gilbert Perreault's stick-handling skills, Rick Middleton's shifty skating and Phil Esposito's long reach and immovability.
"The last British dogma about immovability has ceased to exist … the Parthenon and its sculptures were the object of pillage.
His best sledges, in this sense, often involved no words at all; he expressed his animating competitive fury via the mere physical projection of himself – the denseness and immovability of his body – on the field of play.
Global warming is reducing the thickness and immovability of the ice but Moscow is changing too.
In giving us a first sight of de Winter standing over a precipice, looking as if he might commit suicide and allowing the nameless narrator to intervene, Hitchcock allows the phallic immovability of the father figure to be contradicted.
The verse had lost some of its lapidary certainty, its formal, measured immovability.
They looked too clinical, and their immovability made it difficult to redecorate a room.
