Sentence examples for impervious to fear from inspiring English sources

His relentless fear is striking, jutting up against the popular American vision of black men as impervious to fear.

For all her courageous early work, Martin isn't impervious to fear, from the everyday ("I'm terrified of heights") to the irrational (food poisoning "because I love food") to the understandable (unemployment).

Wodehouse's writing embodied erudition, literary allusion, jocular slang and an uncanny sense of timing that owed much to the long-extinct art of music-hall comedy: "She... [resembled] one of those engravings of the mistresses of Bourbon kings which make one feel that the mon archs who selected them must have been men of iron, impervious to fear, or else short-sighted".

In hidden camps in Jericho and Jordan, greenhorn soldiers are subjected to a training program designed to make them impervious to fear.

The goal of this self-deception is to be impervious to greatly feared external criticism and to their own rolling sea of doubts".

Indonesia's tourist industry is in tatters, but its consumer economy has proved somewhat impervious to terrorist fears, economists say.

He is impervious to criticism and fear, to a degree that is almost inspiring.

"It suggests a demographic momentum so powerful," said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Institute, "that the immigration flow is somewhat impervious to the economic downturn or fears over national security".

They have helped to cultivate a culture of paranoia, a coalition of followers who are impervious to facts and act out of fear and anger.

And despite our ostensibly progressive notions about marriage, we were not impervious to the full range of human emotions — rage, jealousy, fear of abandonment — that tend to surface when we cross the boundaries of love.

But he remained largely impervious to the attacks of the mainstream politicians, a tactic many fear he will fall back on once again this weekend when he faces his counterparts at an EU summit that will decide Greece's future.