A similar process took place in the formulation of Christological belief by the council of Chalcedon (451), which defined Christ as "one person, acknowledged in two natures, unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably".
I've always felt, utterly and unchangeably, that only sociopaths hire skywriters.
And yet something does seep through, as if to show that fate is not unchangeably malign: a channel-flipping Charlie stumbles on "You Were Never Lovelier," with Rita Hayworth smiling at Fred Astaire, and nearly smiles himself.
What remains, for the director as for the novelist, is the quest not to change the world but to trap its flickers of brightness on the wing, and to make their descriptions unchangeably precise.
It assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x it must always be equivalent to itself, that it has a uniqueness about it, that it is in possession of something so irreducible that we must assume it is absolutely, unchangeably equivalent to itself for all time, that its very elementalness can never be altered.
Back then, he thought Saddam Hussein was an unchangeably dangerous guy, and in his highly influential book "The Threatening Storm," he argued that Hussein couldn't be permitted to inch any closer to acquiring nuclear weapons.
Literature might be the endless repetition of the same topics but these are never received unchangeably.
Impressed by the film's stylistic and technical merits, these supporters gloss over DeMille's portrayal of the Asian voluptuary as unchangeably barbaric, or the film's suggestion that white men seeking to deal with such a fellow might want to try mob violence.
He stressed the underlying message of free will, saying, "The future is not in fact unchangeably set, and the image which the children saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing can be changed".
But it is also a kind of radical self-reliance that is deeply and unchangeably American.
"By viewing the South as hopelessly, stubbornly, unchangeably 'red,' " Moser writes, "the superior hearts and brains of non-Southern liberals can rest assured, once again, that American evils are not theirs to confront — or to overcome".
