Sentence examples for in the immutable from inspiring English sources

I was a little boy being instructed in the immutable fact of my own helplessness.

Being in the immutable present, can God change our memory of the past and make it so that what we experienced happening didn't happen?

Rather than the satisfying, vindicating capture of a child-conscripting war criminal, the George W. Bush Administration received a final lesson in the immutable laws of unintended consequences in war (which laws the Administration might have memorized after Iraq).

The news that a star could change as dramatically as that described by Tycho, together with the reports of the Copernican theory that the Sun, not Earth, was the centre of the universe, shook confidence in the immutable laws of antiquity and suggested that the chaos and imperfections of Earth were reflected in the heavens.

The death decree, or fatwa, would come to be seen by some as an early signal of a clash of absolutes that would lead up to 9/11 and into our tinderbox present — of the continuing struggle between religious belief in the immutable word of God on one hand and secular faith in the unconditional right of free speech on the other.

Mr. Stewart, a longtime friend and colleague of Mr. McKellen well before their partnership on screen, meets his co-star every mournful if theatrically choice step of the way, this Didi's laughter sounding ever so slightly forced, as if bonhomie were an essential charade in the immutable face of death.

This shared interiority in life seems to hint darkly at some sense in which the immutable law of the Great Death – as Kulka calls it – may be repealed.

Bruce sent on the former Leeds striker Ross McCormack in the hope the immutable law would prove just that, and Villa immediately looked more threatening going forward.

A classic example of this view is given in Sophocles' play Antigone, in which the title character, upon being reproached by King Creon for defying his command not to bury her slain brother, asserted that she acted in accordance with the immutable laws of the gods.

According to Macaulay, inequality is one of the factors which militates against a populace being motivated to act in accordance with the immutable moral truths.

(Time is underlined in another way by the immutable Gibson girls in the drawings that mask the set between acts).