indestructibility

This handset certainly has a feeling of indestructibility about it.

Because of its hardness and apparent indestructibility, jade has long been associated with immortality, and its special qualities set it in a class apart from other objects.

The law of the indestructibility of matter decrees that every atom brought into use will, at different speeds and in different forms, become waste; and that the intelligence and effort devoted to dealing with this is about one per cent of one per cent of the intelligence and resources devoted to bringing it into use.

These rights and duties derive their origin, their sustenance, and their indestructibility from the natural law, which in conferring the one imposes the other."

Appended to the Essays is Reid's "Three Lectures on the Nature and Duration of the Soul," in which the indestructibility of matter grounds Reid's naturalistic argument for the immortality of the soul.

The light-weight, assertive stopping power and virtual indestructibility of the Taurus made this adventure an even more rewarding event in my life.

Billed as an 'urban on-roader' by Longbridge chiefs, the Streetwise is basically a pumped up Rover 25 with increased ground clearance and extra body cladding designed to provide the kind of appearance of rugged indestructibility which has made fashion 4X4s like the Land Rover Freelander and Toyota RAV 4 so popular.

Young, devoid of fear and with that crucial belief in his own indestructibility, hardly a day went by without some hardened pundit ringing to say, "did you see the ride that Maguire gave that thing at Fontwell today?" or "how Maguire got that yak home at Towcester this afternoon, I'll never know".

who leave keys because of the handcuff scene; TRAGIC STORY: The Titanic - top in dry dock - was such an impressive feat of engineering that it created a false impression of indestructibility. Left: Kate Winslet and Leonardo diCaprio in the film

Providing proof, if any were needed, of the indestructibility of Puccini's La Boheme, L'Opera de Montreal chose to revive the chesnut in November with no assistance from the striking stagehands of Place des Arts.

The features of Titanic seem to comprise a discourse of indestructibility, power, permanence, and stability, combined with the undermining of this discourse through horrific depictions of destruction.

The attentive observer will note the indestructibility of several cultural archetypes conjoined with the very existence of mankind.

Not to let go, to insist on memory and the indestructibility of earlier lives and other places is to put on the black armband of history, stubbornly to fight against the forward-looking times.

A womanist, in her reconstruction of knowledge, must not only be a diligent craft person, she must develop an approach that utilizes the kind of technology that can dismantle the seeming indestructibility of the original building materials.

But such moments came infrequently and more often than not were the prelude to much less solacing intuitions: the dialysis machine's unflagging tendance to my father's physical frailty made his weakness that much more pronounced--and although I fought against such feelings, I'm ashamed to admit that my father's wasting flesh, in contrast to the machine's seeming indestructibility, sometimes made me a little afraid of him.