The friction ridges that cover the skin on your hands and feet are formed by the seventeenth week in the womb; at birth they have become so deep that nothing can alter them, not even surgery.
Should we adopt the premise that nothing should alter an architect's original intention, even if it means preserving a structure no longer useful save as a large museum object?
There is perhaps nothing that has altered the look of middle-aged women more than hair color.
There was even, near the end, a tremor of polite, perhaps condescending applause as the French scored a late try of their own that did nothing to alter the fact that this was a blowout.
Were he to return today, he would no doubt be gratified to see that nothing has changed to alter that opinion.
And then: Those moments don't come very often in a lifetime: when someone says something so insightful, so perspective altering, that nothing quite looks the same again.
I've known men who are entirely average externally, but when I got to know the whole of them, they became attractive in a way that nothing external could possibly alter their appeal.
But that does nothing to alter the fact that this is very much Obama's race to lose.
Sadly, that did nothing to alter the fact that, in the course of a few years, Germany was thoroughly drawn into the terrible whirlpool of Nazi crimes.
