Sentence examples for impervious to time from inspiring English sources

I planned to visit some of the medieval villages of the Maestrazgo, reputedly impervious to time, enclosed by walls and crowned by castles.

Today, some 80 years after Cocteau first holed up at the Hôtel Welcome — where he received collaborators like Picasso, Stravinsky and Isadora Duncan — the town's old center seems as impervious to time as his own frozen likeness.

Bernier herself seems impervious to time's arrows.

Thus, Parker's life becomes impervious to time, a subject friends and business partners acknowledge with a defeated laugh.

Mineral crystals in the rocks, called zircons, are hardy things, nearly impervious to time, and many of them have ages of more than 4 billion years evidence for the oldest rocks on Earth (the zircons originally crystallized in rocks that have long since disappeared).

Third, while the Palestinian authorities understand that Israel will never accept the return of any significant number of Palestinian refugees, they continue to foster the perception that the Palestinian refugees have a birthright impervious to time.

Rolls-Royce, whose customers might be thought impervious to hard times, sold 29 cars in December 2007, but precisely none last month.The cause is no mystery.

"I tell them, 'The world is going to hell,' " Mr. Terry said, laughing, " 'and I'd like to be part of saving it.' " "No one is impervious to the times," he added, "but the economy is going to turn.

But even in a place that seems impervious to the passage of time, there is change.

In his early poems, collected in "The Black Swan" (1946) and "The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace" (1959), language is a kind of brittle tracery impervious to the passing of time.

Monday night's epic Game One was partially a testament to Gregg Popovich's Spurs team's resilience, they are a veteran team seemingly impervious to the ravages of time and age.