| We arrived when the dry season was beginning so that, far from being impassibly flooded, the river's depths alternated with shoals that only local pilots could anticipate. |
| If Russian athletes are allowed to compete in Rio under their own flag the credibility gap that has afflicted the Olympics and its constituent sports for so long will grow impassibly large. |
| A patron, J. T. Coldfire, looked on impassibly behind his sunglasses, every bit the downtown studio musician that he is, with leather jacket and pants, a goatee and a nose-ring. |
