There is, I guess, a certain kind of imperviousness to reality that takes hold of that 30% of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too agreeable.] Reference

This value did not does not? exist for Generation X because of that generation's "imperviousness" to marketing, particularly from majors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

The imperviousness to facts and analysis is also there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

Maybe power is one part amnesia + one part imperviousness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthcare] Reference

They were wrapped in an uncongenial and frosty imperviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRODIGAL FATHER] Reference

I would expect increasing health and imperviousness to gut bugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Low-carb diet takes one below the belt | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

Ross was clearly shaken well out of his cultivated imperviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galactic Derelict]

But Carville was right to do so — it helped dent the imperviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Communication Gulf] Reference

Manhattan has all the balmy imperviousness of Venice before the plague.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balmy Weatherpeople F��te Toasty Winter as the World Burns] Reference

This inequality seems to be monolithic in its imperviousness to change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics of Politics] Reference

But that sort of aloof imperviousness only added to those knock-out looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

This imperviousness to the judgments of others persisted through the years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perugia's Prime Suspect] Reference

Lisana had chosen them as much for their beauty as their imperviousness to heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

A place of self sufficiency and imperviousness to whatever life can throw at you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Terrapin Station (entire suite)] Reference

This demonstrates another antirust principle: It's imperviousness to embarrassment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket] Reference

If he has read these books his imperviousness to their insights is particularly impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on Ezra Pound] Reference

In some contexts, he suggested, imperviousness to public pressures can be seen as commendable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Craft and Craftiness of Henry Kissinger] Reference

Caro's imperviousness to Johnson's weirder charms shows in many little ways as well as large ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monstre Désacré] Reference

One of the most frustrating things about dealing with left-wingers is their imperviousness to reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [You keep abusing that word "progressive" ...] Reference

Obviously, as one who was raised Roman Catholic, Mike has forgotten my own imperviousness to guilt-trips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes We Canned! AKA: Ramona's Recipe for Home-Made Dirt: The Long-Awaited Sequel] Reference

In America the main concern seems to be the imperviousness of both worlds and the radicality of exclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Trip: Part II] Reference

Unfortunately it is also wrong but they are imperviousness to the historical and scientific record as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Creationism Child's Play? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Reed, he wrote, steadily lost control of his medium as his feigned objectivity disintegrated into imperviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 11/7.] Reference

He's banking on the apathy of the public and the imperviousness of a powerful network like CNN to public complaints.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. Richard Cohen: Why I Urged CNN to Take Dobbs Off the Air] Reference

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of fear]

Meanwhile, the sheer imperviousness of the events in that taxi to rational explanation has something compelling about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Accident by Ismail Kadare] Reference

The dollar's relative imperviousness to a string of bad economic surprises has much to do with its unique role in global finance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dollar Stills Enjoys a Special Status] Reference

Diagram showing the effect different levels of imperviousness on surface runoff (Source: Journal of the American Planning Association).    From Wordnik.com.  [Surface runoff] Reference

You are the one showing your imperviousness to biblical evidence and using your head to think through the implications of these verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is Good?] Reference

Owing to its imperviousness to ligniperdous insects and climate, it cannot possibly be surpassed for such purposes as railway-sleepers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

In its complete divorce from any observable or possible facts, the talk of total separation reveals a dreary imperviousness to reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report on South Africa] Reference

I no longer felt that my body revealed my soft, bruised feelings, but instead radiated independence, toughness, emotional imperviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard bodies, cold culture at Hugo Schwyzer] Reference

But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of Mirth] Reference

Some of us insist that meaning is found in a man's toughness, his imperviousness to slings and arrows and feelings like pain or love.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference