In the middle of all this remains Beeny, immovable and indefatigable in the face of sky-rocketing prices, shoebox living and millennial despair.
Isabel's searing compassion never compromises her intense cerebral rush, and Thami's commitment to a rebellious and militant cause remains impassioned and immovable.
McCartney, for example, remains of the immovable opinion that they refused to entertain the idea of visiting the US until they had a number one record on the Billboard charts: a nice story, but he should try booking Carnegie Hall at 10 days' notice.
In Newton's words (Principia, 408 409): "Absolute space, of its own nature without reference to anything external, always remains homogeneous and immovable.
Time, he wrote, "flows equably," while space "remains always similar and immovable".
Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable.
Takuan calls it "immovable" because the mind remains absolutely still (i.e., not two) in the midst of action, like the stationary shaft of a top.
"The substantial amount of immovable property confiscated from European Jews remains unrestituted," they write.
And while tax change remains hard, all but the flakiest of the Abbott era ideas appear immovable.
Yet his stare remains indomitable, while the dark forms of his body suggest a solid, immovable presence.
