They were executed by officials that have only the most superficial grasp of what is immovable and bent about human beings.
Perkus hadn't encountered another soul in the hours he'd been installed in the Friendreth, had only gazed through immovable paint-sealed windows at minute human forms picking through drifts on the Sixty-fifth Street sidewalk seven stories below, the city a distant stilled terrarium.
If Lord had been given to large interpretations, he might have seen in the one ship a symbol of the urgent force of human striving and, in the other, the immovable resistance of sheer stupidity.
Mr Waterstone added: "The [physical] product is so strong, the interest in reading is so deeply rooted in the culture and human soul of this country that it is immovable.
The human foot is specialized for bipedal locomotion the toes are shortened, relatively immovable, and nonmanipulative.
Because of this feeling of helplessness in the face of our own artifacts, a summit conference, even without major agreements has a certain value, in that it brings before our eyes the human beings who actually guide the technical & bureaucratic systems we habitually regard as immovable.
Unlike humans and other vertebrates, which have flexible rib cages, turtles uniquely have an immovable rib cage — fused to, and part of, the shell.
Bedford must have insisted on between 10 and 12 seconds of complete stillness from the human figures in this majestic work, fully consonant with the 19th-century vogue for the timeless, immovable east – except for one deliberate anachronism.
Two immovable, unyielding forces.
But Mikhail Gorbachev was immovable.
