On the bus a couple of days ago, I heard a man sitting behind drawling away in some kind of impenetrable accent over the phone. |
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The album is stuffed with queasy midtempo tracks and bizarre orchestration, but it's by no means impenetrable. |
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Unlike Washington, Jefferson did not shield himself behind an impenetrable visage. |
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The wars were chaotic, an impenetrable series of vicious contests between shifting clan alliances. |
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It was a typically sunny February afternoon in Delhi, but I felt a cloud of impenetrable darkness. |
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The end of things and their principles are unattainably hidden from him in impenetrable secrecy. |
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Defensive, impenetrable, they cluster together for security, and perhaps that is part of the artist's intention. |
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Made of dark, impenetrable bluestone, long and narrow like the grave, you might say the feng shui is grim, not the place for a picnic. |
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Rugged, mountainous, impenetrable, recalcitrant and peopled by an enemy hardened and fanatical, it was considered unconquerable. |
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The poet seems to be experiencing a kind of existential crisis in a hostile, opaque, impenetrable and uninhabitable world. |
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I sit on a stiff leather backed chair flicking through an impenetrable legal periodical as the receptionist sorts through the post. |
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Why he was so severely afflicted with this nostalgie de la boue remains something of a mystery, like much else in his impenetrable private life. |
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We turn onto a narrow track steeply banked on either side by impenetrable thorn scrub. |
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Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness. |
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Accountants protest that impenetrable Chinese walls exist between audit departments and consulting arms serving the same client. |
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A hazel choc bar could be on the way via an impenetrable Volvo or a pickup. |
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The landscape is choked with impenetrable forests of enormous trees and dense, green foliage. |
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At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in an impenetrable mix of street slang and patois. |
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On a borrowed a bicycle, he pedals over hills and along dirt roads, encountering impenetrable characters and glimpses of his own nature. |
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The air hangs heavy, thick and impenetrable, as cloying and claustrophobic as incense. |
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Thus, the initiated are separated by high fences and impenetrable jargon from the ordinary folk. |
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The island is full of impenetrable virgin forest ill-suited to bikes, leaving the last leg to be completed on foot. |
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From its impenetrable title to the insular instrumental segues between the real songs, the man's second record risks coyness at every turn. |
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A youngster whose height and strength makes him an almost impenetrable barrier, he was an inspiring character. |
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Perhaps they had gotten caught up in an impenetrable area of the forest and had to find a way around instead of simply going through. |
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Indeed, paddling up the creek is the best way to get into the dense surrounding forest, which is otherwise nearly impenetrable. |
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The country night was one of an almost impenetrable darkness, accentuated by the occasional faint pinprick of light. |
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But the circle of outraged nobles had made an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the king and the prince. |
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Unfortunately, her last escapade with William had taught her that bathrooms were virtually impenetrable fortresses. |
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But for most parents the school classroom is a place as mysterious and impenetrable as their teenager's bedroom. |
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To my horror though, I did not catch myself upon hitting the wall, but proceeded to pass through it into impenetrable darkness. |
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Unfortunately, anything that involves more than a simple sense is more complicated and the barriers are often impenetrable. |
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The spiky reed makes areas impenetrable, both for hunting and for cattle grazing. |
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Growing an impenetrable thicket is an alternative option that could blend in with the view beyond the boundary. |
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One million men and 1,500 tanks crossed the seemingly impenetrable forests in the Ardennes. |
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In this way the seemingly impenetrable barriers that separated the two groups began to fall away. |
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In front of him was an impenetrable wall that he could not see his way around. |
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Ask a financial market dealer or analyst, and a spray of impenetrable jargon appears. |
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But as a technology columnist, I'm in the business of coming up with confusing and impenetrable reactions to events around me. |
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It misfires because almost every page of it is weighed down by nearly impenetrable academic jargon. |
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The first three chapters of the book are hard going and, at times, impenetrable and needlessly obscure. |
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When you know someone really well you develop routines which are impenetrable to outsiders. |
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Implacable, impenetrable, it may take five viewings to understand this movie, but it's time well spent. |
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When I was a kid, high walled fortifications were virtually impenetrable to infantry or cavalry. |
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When it is finally time for the public comment, planning instruments drafted in legal language are often found to be impenetrable. |
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Their players are second to every ball, passes are going astray and their normally impenetrable defence is looking porous. |
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He stalks the bars and foyers of five-star hotels, disconnected from family and country, isolated and seemingly impenetrable. |
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This cryptogram is typical of the allusiveness of the poem, part of which is now impenetrable. |
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There are moments of impenetrable psychotic darkness, followed swiftly by wry humor. |
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There are 14 races, each outlined in impenetrable statistical detail in the official programme. |
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Then he characterized the paper support as a granular surface of impenetrable dark green. |
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Though far from perfect, and full of impenetrable dialogues, the film nonetheless has a certain visceral urgency. |
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Tight-lipped, he appeared discomfited by the questions thrown at him, and relied on streams of impenetrable government-speak for his responses. |
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The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia. |
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Whilst too impenetrable to entice non-savvy spectators, there's no doubting the game's quality as an e-sport. |
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Not only can these techniques represent a usability issue to able bodied users they can present an impenetrable barrier to less abled visitors. |
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The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism. |
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Except for a few hundred in bills, everything was locked in the impenetrable safe. |
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The Walkers' art balances on a line between referential and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line. |
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And without a commentary, The Zohar really is an impenetrable text, because of the symbolism that appears in almost every line. |
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Bailey answered in Zulu to make the point that English is as impenetrable for a Zulu speaker as Zulu is for an English speaker. |
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Film strips hung from the cutter's rack, bits and pieces of Utah, out-takes overexposed and underexposed, masses of impenetrable material. |
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Anyway, I bet they all feel the same way about our own impenetrable Anglicisms. |
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The Supreme Court decisions that he attacks are written in difficult, if not impenetrable, legalese. |
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Monet was drawn to the industrialized city of London with its bustling riverfront, which was frequently covered in nearly impenetrable fog. |
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A woman, her face displaying an enigmatic or even arrogantly impenetrable beauty, appears out of the gray Parisian night. |
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Those who mistake the inborn shyness of English people for an impenetrable reserve should visit it. |
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Unless you read Russian or Finnish, the papers will be impenetrable, but there are a few memorable human details. |
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The prismatic oil-stick scrawls are applied in intricate gathers, loose skeins and impenetrable tangles. |
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The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable. |
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In older parts of town, the canals are screened off from yards and businesses by the equally impenetrable walls of giant oleanders. |
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Even with the aid of a glossary, a synopsis and a published text, I found large tracts of Marcia Layne's first play impenetrable. |
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The several paintings titled Night Sky are swatches of impenetrable black texturing. |
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A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex. |
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The system works like Russian matryoshka dolls, shells within shells within shells, which in the end can be impenetrable to legal process. |
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So little of the remaining land is useful, consisting as it does of impenetrable scrub or mountain tiers. |
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Some theologians have a positive genius for cloaking sensible ideas in impenetrable jargon. |
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Her fear slowly drained away as she kept his impenetrable onyx gaze questioningly with her own. |
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I just knew that one day the battalion of trees would overtake this weak stretch of highway and obscure its existence with an impenetrable density. |
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Chinese privet is most abundant along margins of gravel and paved roads, where it often forms dense, impenetrable stands with relatively dark understories. |
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When they write, they piece together words in the same way to create text which is structurally sound, but is often also completely impenetrable drivel. |
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The undergrowth was, in places, thick, but nowhere impenetrable. |
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The legal gymnastics necessary to create such impenetrable networks is a testament to the ingenuity of well-paid attorneys. |
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The sea buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides should not be planted on sand dunes as its vigorous suckers can reduce species rich dunes to an impenetrable thorny thicket. |
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The more monolithic bureaucracies became, Gowers felt, the more they reinforced their remoteness by using impenetrable language. |
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These impenetrable brambles both recede into space and hold the painting's surface, negotiating that double sense of depth and flatness, landscape and abstraction. |
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But the terrain is difficult, threaded with bayous and creeks, frequently flooded, and overridden with dense foliage and impenetrable undergrowth. |
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However, for Melanesians, few of whom have learnt English as their first language, the text in this book would be, in some places, unnecessarily impenetrable. |
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Tellingly, though, the cannon all face inland, towards the impenetrable hills where the last of the Carib Indians held out against the colonisers until the late 18th century. |
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Lots of fields have their own jargon that is impenetrable to outsiders. |
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Music industry insiders tend to litter their conversation with talk of turnover, market share and the impenetrable jargon of contract negotiations. |
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His mount sat quietly atop a leather bound saddle, the cloak sagging, shadowing anything in its impenetrable layer of threads, and reaching the ground slightly. |
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Not surprisingly, the book is pretty dense, but it's not impenetrable. |
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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. |
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When it comes to the increasing number of rape allegations leveled at Bill Cosby, the smoke is becoming impenetrable. |
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The Brazilian defense, touted as impenetrable in pre-tournament hype, proved to be bedraggled, and porous. |
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The Forestry Commission car park on Clay Bank Top normally provides ace views of the Cleveland Plain, but there was nothing but an impenetrable gloom. |
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At the highest navigable point of the congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island. |
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Goria was their vision of an impenetrable fortress, and with the asteroids surrounding Goria, the Corridor of Ragnorak was essentially a choke point for the Empire. |
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Beyond it, the Cumbrian mountains rear, an impenetrable barrier. |
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Tight-lipped, he appeared discomfited by the questions thrown at him by Brewer, and relied on streams of impenetrable government-speak for his responses. |
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The figure is seen in raking light against an impenetrable blackness. |
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But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud. |
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He nodded silently, scanning the paintings with impenetrable eyes. |
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It had to be suffered and endured by rote learning and sing-songy renditions of pappy rhymes or the impenetrable stanzas of a tortured and deluded soul. |
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Their mystery deepens at nightfall over the landscape, and as bitter winds howl and shriek in the lonely valleys and impenetrable thickets of tall and spiky trees. |
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Together, they formed an almost impenetrable sea of fitted baseball caps surrounding the stage. |
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By the time the Army decoded the first Venona cable, the flaw had been corrected and KGB communications rendered impenetrable. |
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The desert dust kicked up swirls up into a impenetrable smoke screen. |
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The use of rifle, machine-gun, and artillery fire combined with engineer structures, field fortifications and counterstrokes made defense impenetrable for an attacking force. |
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The impenetrable jargon of much postmodern writings is an issue as well. |
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The dark-haired child gave way to her sister's commands, slinking to the base of the stone pedestal that would be make-believed into a high and impenetrable lair. |
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The creation of life in general and of the human person in particular is a thing we can know a little about, but also a thing which is shrouded in impenetrable mystery. |
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They forget, if they ever knew, that Shakespeare can seem impenetrable. |
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These reporters are working within a bubble, impenetrable to secular outsiders. |
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But, as Korda clearly recognizes, Lee himself could be almost as impenetrable as stone. |
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Instead of being an impenetrable wall on the frontier, the pak Army has become a porous bale of cotton. |
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Gone are the impenetrable layers of sound and beats, in comes a commerciality which is both unlaboured and fresh. |
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But the impenetrable barrier seen by the twin Van Allen belt spacecraft stops the electrons before they get that far, said Baker. |
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Recalling a monumental Minimalist sculpture, the resulting white polyhedron is circumnavigable but impenetrable. |
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Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive. |
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In aviation for many years the sonic barrier was thought to be impenetrable. |
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He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail. |
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Meanwhile, Peter Murphy gets all mystic and esoteric, his impenetrable lyrics outweirding the weird efforts of his previous band. |
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Heavy infestations may make the land completely impenetrable and will require cutting first just to access the stems. |
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While Spanish armour was very effective against most of the Andean weapons, it was not impenetrable to maces, clubs, or slings. |
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She can move mountains with her telekinetic powers, create impenetrable force fields and wreak havoc if she loses control. |
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Business jargon makes this document impenetrable, I can't understand it. |
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Laura imagined that he would expect them to flee along the beams, and she watched his narrow face searching the impenetrable shadows antispinward of where they hid. |
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Knowing next to nothing about either place but being aware that at one time their parochial boundaries had met at some impenetrable spot around Saltpan Creek, I agreed. |
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The once impenetrable and mysterious Amazon basin is riddled with roads, power plants, gold mines, boom towns, cattle ranches, settlers' swiddens, and coca plantations. |
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He does so in clear, simple prose, not impenetrable academese. |
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