The second, which appeared 10 years later, was "Jefferson and the New Nation," a more conventional biography that, at more than 1,000 pages, is viewed by many as an exemplary one-volume life, even though Mr. Peterson confessed in it that Jefferson remained, for him, "finally, an impenetrable man".
But there was a time when electronic music was a marginal affair to mainstream music fans, an impenetrable world with no charismatic front men nor any nuance beyond exhortations to let yourself go and feel the music.
These letters can be as long-winded, rambling, visionary and impenetrable as each man's writing style would suggest.
In 1619, Ben Jonson could salaciously inform Drummond of Hawthornden that the Virgin Queen's much vaunted chastity had not been voluntary at all: her hymen was impenetrable by any man, although she had experimented in vain with several.
If you happen to have an image of the British Parliament as a place of impenetrable ritual, where men with sharp accents jump up and down, shout, guffaw, and wave around pieces of paper, Prime Minister's Questions, or P.M.Q.s, as it is known, is just like that.
IRVINE — The UC Irvine defense was more than impenetrable in the men's soccer season opener against visiting Gonzaga Wednesday night.
But despite all the attributes that have made him a future Hall of Famer, Alomar is also a stubborn man with an impenetrable belief about the wisdom of sliding headfirst into first.
Mr. Solis is particularly good at defying the stereotype of the blue-collar character with macho colors; he makes us see that the literal-mindedness of such a man is not impenetrable, that he is capable of appreciating the odd, ambiguous and emotional strains of a person from a different background.
Still, the road to Senua's relationship reunion is decorated with hanging corpses, blood rivers, ravenous demons and stretches of impenetrable darkness Acclaim's 1999 Shadow Man came to mind more than once.
I remember watching her father, Jerry, the head of our school's music department ― a stoic man with an impenetrable Ukrainian accent who'd suffered from Parkinson's disease for longer than I knew him ― drift hazily through my band class that fall.
A world impenetrable to outsiders.
