In its place now lives a vague but often-impenetrable fear of those who carry HIV and a diluted sense of safety based on the idea that the transmission of HIV is related to a character flaw of promiscuity.
It was not the burned out loss of thought, but it was an impenetrable barrier of fear.
But the vote this week that put an end to the data mining that was sanctioned by the Patriot Act does suggest there might be a few cracks in the once impenetrable fortress known as fear.
The evidence, of course, points precisely in the opposite direction, but, and here's the kicker, these folks are impenetrable to evidence, and I fear their privileged positions make them so.
As actions are replaced by portentous, disconnected symbols and new characters are belatedly shoehorned into the story, the sins of EN are forgotten and the film turns into an impenetrable essay on guilt, memory and the fear of death that even Mr. Langella's gravity cannot salvage.
The United States and its partners have long struggled to understand North Korea, where a cruel system of fear, repression and paranoia keeps the country largely impenetrable to outsiders.
All these years I've been warding off the hangover fear by telling myself that MY SKULL IS AN IMPENETRABLE BONE FORTRESS THAT NO OTHER HUMAN BEING CAN POSSIBLY LOOK INSIDE OF, but--holy shit--these guys read my mind!
Being the best in the world requires, among other things, impenetrable narcissism and an ability to smother the weaknesses that make humans human: sympathy, compassion, generosity, the throat-tightening fear that you might chunk your seven-iron on the 72nd hole of the US Open with a chance to win.
Impenetrable explanations?
The city seemed impenetrable.
Her will seemed impenetrable.
