The attitude echoes what Miller articulated about Kyle in her Salon piece: "his steadfast imperviousness to any nuance, subtlety or ambiguity, and his lack of imagination and curiosity, seem particularly notable".
As Vyacheslav Nikonov, a Kremlin-connected analyst, puts it, "if you put all these democracy issues at the centre of the relationship, then there will be no relationship".Yet Mr Bush may not be too distressed by Mr Putin's imperviousness.
With that banging, even through their imperviousness, the Russian people began to stir to the evils of the cult of personality under which they had lived for too long; after this, though with desperate slowness, the disintegration of the Soviet state was only a matter of time.He was not another Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.
This leaves little room for manoeuvre should any of them lack business acumen, or the imperviousness to embarrassment that is required to sell synthetic genitalia.
Having ascribed to existent monads indestructibility, self-sufficiency, and imperviousness to extrinsic causality, Leibniz distinguished truths of reason, whose nonexistence would involve a contradiction, from truths of fact, whose existence depended on God's free choice.
Including products as diverse as fine china dinnerware, lavatory sinks and toilets, dental implants, and spark-plug insulators, whitewares all depend for their utility upon a relatively small set of properties: imperviousness to fluids, low conductivity of electricity, chemical inertness, and an ability to be formed into complex shapes.
But what makes A Little Life so powerful, unsettling and occasionally infuriating is Jude's imperviousness to the love of his friends.
Small pores and high glass content are desirable, however, when chemical resistance and imperviousness to water penetration are required.
Yet as the war proceeded, she also wrote with growing frequency about self-reliance, imperviousness, personal triumph, and hard-won liberty.
Manual's imperviousness to reform was an extreme example of a national commonplace: after a quarter century of concerted attempts to improve urban school districts, the results for poor children, beyond some gains at the elementary level, remain slight.
Fouda, who conducted the interview at an Al Qaeda safe house in Karachi, said that he was astounded not only by Mohammed's boasting but also by his seeming imperviousness to the danger of being caught.
