The fly-half formerly known (to Mick Skinner) as "Squeaky-clean" stayed at Twickenham as disastrous political infighting raged before and after the World Cup failure, (almost) impervious to the mushrooming bile of press and public opinion.
He still does, as demonstrated on the "inordinate amount of time" he spent on the Daily Show, affable and bright enough, willing to laugh at himself, but still completely impervious to Stewart's points about the failures of the bailout.
Among all the troubles that have been visited on Russia in this summer of record heat, wildfires, smoke and crop failure, perhaps none have been so persistent and impervious to remedy as the peat fires.
To many of Dr. Flaherty's colleagues, the failure of the Bayer drug indicated that melanoma would prove impervious to targeted therapy.
Heseltine's achievements have been matched by conspicuous failures, but his self belief is almost thrillingly impregnable, making him quite impervious to any such impression.
But they are not impervious to elections.
They are oddly impervious to torture.
Impervious to all human emotion.
Are they impervious to reason?
It's impervious to water.
