Sentence examples for impervious if from inspiring English sources

They should not require complicated or expensive equipment and should be impervious, if possible, to the range of settings within which such studies are undertaken.

Yet, as in the case of the poverty studies earlier, the Indian epistemic community seems to be remarkably impervious to, if not altogether oblivious of, the cumulative body of knowledge in European and North American countries developments that are highly pertinent for the Indian context, albeit with necessary adaptations.

Millepied, who wore an open-necked white shirt, jeans, and a blue blazer by Rag & Bone, radiates an impervious confidence, as if he were shellacked with it.

Over the years, he had learned that nothing really bad ever happened to him, that he was impervious to injury, if not to embarrassment, no matter how formidable the adversary or unexpected its arrival.

The results show that the permeability of cap rock and interlayers is in the range of 10− 18–10− 20 m2, whereas the interface in between salt and interlayer behaves as if impervious.

His reading of Islam takes an essentialist perspective of a primordial religion impervious to change, as if he were oblivious of the way that essentialist views of religion have long been under sustained intellectual attack.

On the basis of the assumption that, once specified during embryonic development, neuronal identity and laminar fate are apparently impervious to change even if cell migration is abnormal, it has been suggested that LSGs can be confidently used as markers to study cortical malformations [ 13, 35].

When she talks about music and art and poetry, often with her eyes closed in rapture, it is as if she is impervious to ever becoming jaded.

The smaller reductions in wealth emanating from this regression are understandable as Social Security wealth is largely impervious to market fluctuations, especially if one is already claiming benefits.

If sentiments are bald natural reactions, they can be neither correct nor incorrect; if they are impervious to reason, then we can have reason, at most, to appear to have sentiments other than the ones we happen to have, not truly to change those sentiments.

But I would be surprised if they were totally impervious to it".