| 单词 | invulnerability |
| 例句 | Even in the grip of agonizing pain or complete debilitation, most jockeys clung to their illusion of invulnerability. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been holding a pose above his cider of Gibraltar invulnerability; he continued to gaze challengingly around him until he began to realize that wherever he looked, calculating eyes looked back. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z People experienced a sense of invulnerability and well-being by attending rap sessions, outdoor flute concerts; enjoyed having an official excuse to compare nightmares or break down in public. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Its air of invulnerability was heightened by the darkness of her eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If it hadn’t been for my new invulnerability, I would’ve broken every bone in my body. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A short time later they were rescued by the flour Aurelianos, whose crosses of ash inspired a sacred respect, as if they were caste marks, stamps of invulnerability. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The pain that had been building in their arms and legs and chests did not abate, but it fled to the backs of their minds, chased there by a sense, almost, of invulnerability. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The airplane ride exhilarated him, encouraged illusion and a feeling of invulnerability. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z His tone was extraordinarily bright and shiny, with a steely invulnerability that stood around him like armor and defied the listener to resist. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z And like most men, I kept my sense of inadequacy to myself and did not share it with anyone, for fear of violating the male code of self-reliance and invulnerability. Fathering and masculinity in the age of COVID-19: A noteworthy silver lining 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z With America's invulnerability on the world stage a shattered myth, nowadays no one expects a fairytale ending. Fairytale films are in fashion – but can Hollywood deliver a happy ending? 2012-11-09T12:25:40Z Ugly as sin and hungry for human heads, Venom gives Eddie invulnerability against the baddies who pursue him. Review: In ‘Venom,’ Tom Hardy as a Weirder-Than-Usual, Not-Quite Superhero 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Speed and invulnerability are among the ideas expressed in some of the new constructed clothes for fall, here in New York and elsewhere. London: Body Snatchers 2010-02-23T19:55:00Z Its quest for absolute invulnerability implies total control, and rather than sharing a virtual mind with J.A.R.V.I.S., The New “Avengers” Is Really About the N.S.A. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z I covered myself in a certain invulnerability in my first tour as a commander, mostly because my Marines expected it. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z But that invulnerability fades when Jay quits upon learning that he will soon be a father. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Not titanic strength or invulnerability, but stretchy fabric. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z So allow me to return to an earlier moment in this century, when Edna was at the peak of her invulnerability, and I received a letter after raving about one of her shows. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Immortality and its accompanying invulnerability are burdens he grudgingly bears. ‘The Wolverine’: A sharp Hugh Jackman saves the day 2013-07-25T01:16:49Z It comes down to this same argument that I talk in my book, about how masculinity is about creating a sense of invulnerability, because to allow yourself to be vulnerable is to demonstrate weakness. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Of course, Butcher is selling out too, compromising his morals to secretly juice up on a temporary Compound V to get an invulnerability boost, becoming the thing he hates. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z She hates her enhanced strength and invulnerability and despises being viewed as a weapon instead of a person. How "The Boys" measures up with regard to TV's full frontal assault 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z They range from the shocking “Nightmare in White” to the naughtily Rabelaisian “Ring of Hans Carvel” to the biter-bit classic “Hobbyist” to a little series about “Great Lost Discoveries,” these being invisibility, invulnerability and immortality. A summer book list like no other 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z In other words, you feel a certain sense of entitlement and also a certain sense of invulnerability. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z A mask would conflict with an image of strength and invulnerability — which, of course, is the very argument for why he should wear one. Perspective | Wearing a face mask is humbling and generous. That’s not how Trump defines leadership. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The male Jordan has invincible strength and invulnerability, while the female Jordan is agile and the ability to generate telekinetic blasts, making for an interesting dichotomy in their fighting styles. Meet "Gen V's" genderfluid superhero 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Of course, the idea that manhood means self-censorship and constant invulnerability created discord in countless marriages and led to discontent in countless lives. Trump’s “alpha-male” paradox: How gender bias makes his behavior seem manly, no matter what 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z For we realize that they have mistaken imperviousness for invulnerability. ArtsBeat: For Titanic Anniversary, the Books Go On and On 2012-03-20T17:49:46Z "The best moments of Jenkins's ambitious and hefty sequel, WW1984, engages with Wonder Woman's very human problem. Diana is a goddess — in appearance, morality, strength, invulnerability — living among mortals, but she is otherwise alone." "Wonder Woman 1984" is "chaotic" and "delightfully cheesy": Reviews of this year's superhero sequel 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Inside the intimate listening room at the Cactus Cafe, arguably the most storied of the storied sites left standing, a sense of invulnerability has developed through three decades of performances. 2010-02-06T05:59:00Z Two decades later, however, he — and his movies — seem overly cartoonish and unnecessarily glib; we as a culture have lost the sense of invulnerability and arrogance that he best personified. Total Recall Revisited: What Colin and Arnold Can Tell Us About Pop Culture 2012-08-01T12:00:49Z Behind it all is a collective fantasy of invulnerability, omnipotence and eternal life. | 'Real Steel': ?Real Steel,? a Tale of Robot Boxers - Review 2011-10-06T21:49:06Z Rather than make myself vulnerable in such public, cultured discourse, not only with my ideas, but also the mere sound of them, I chose the invulnerability — the intellectual and emotional isolation — of silence. The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Their money, said Lombardo, had elevated the group to a position of invulnerability. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Hrabal’s characters share with slapstick comics a strange invulnerability: they survive the wildest exploits, eating poisonous mushrooms and weathering car explosions not only with impunity but with sunny good humor. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Brutal and efficient, our grizzled hero has the blithe, stolid invulnerability of a video game character, dismembering limbs, snapping necks and patching up his own wounds without breaking a sweat. ‘Sisu’ Review: Sweat Wicking 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z At the same time, students are crafting walls of feigned invulnerability and confidence in emulation of the masks faculty wear. Depression and anxiety threatened to kill my career. So I came clean about it 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z I just felt this invulnerability in the way they were interacting, and that kept coming into this work. But seriously ... are you happy? 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z False alarms have reinforced the sense of invulnerability: In recent years, residents have dutifully heeded tsunami warnings and evacuated, but no wave has struck. ‘Folks in Alaska should take this seriously.’ Anchorage not safe from tsunamis, study finds 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z One of the most dangerous aspects of Trump's seeming invulnerability is that some of his followers start to believe they're immune to all consequences themselves. "Teflon Don" is a collective fiction — time to tell a different story, one where he goes to jail 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z That confidence is now in question, after the Wagner private military group waged an insurrection in Russia that has shaken Mr. Putin’s image of invulnerability. Wagner Uprising Highlights China’s Risks With Russia 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z U.S. officials say the goal of the operations may be to bolster Ukrainian morale and to pierce the aura of invulnerability that surrounds President Vladimir V. Putin. Ukrainians Were Likely Behind Kremlin Drone Attack, U.S. Officials Say 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z This game arrived just in time, with the SEC and Big Ten poised to swell into invulnerability and the College Football Playoff set to grow from four to 12 teams during the 2024 season. Perspective | TCU was a deserving finalist and college football is better with variety 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Four iconic characters renowned for their superhuman invulnerability and emotional detachment. Progress in society, NFL 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z And, Akst point out, he developed a sense of invulnerability that got him through difficult challenges, including Vietnam-era prosecution as a member of the Chicago Seven. ‘War By Other Means’: A look at WWII pacifism through 4 biographies 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The other idea is genetic invulnerability, which does happen with other diseases. Have I dodged Covid and what does it mean? 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Black Adam wields superpowers bestowed upon him by magic, including flight, superhuman strength, invulnerability, enhanced speed and the ability to shoot lightning. Who is Black Adam and why should you care? A spoiler-free guide 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z And while Seattle failed to add more runs in the inning, the air of invulnerability surrounding Verlander had dissipated. Mariners drop Game 1 of ALDS on crushing walkoff home run by the Astros 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Ukrainian leaders have projected and nurtured a public image of military invulnerability — of their volunteer and professional forces triumphantly standing up to the Russian onslaught. Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z There are caveats to this sense of invulnerability. Big Tech is getting clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a good time for them 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z She favors a glam-rock look, with jet black hair and red lipstick; in photos taken before the war, she wore a black leather jacket, choosing a slightly shellacked aesthetic that projected an air of invulnerability. ‘It’s a Terrible Thing When a Grown Person Does Not Belong to Herself’ 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Among the powers she’s been shown to possess are superhuman strength and speed, flight, a degree of invulnerability and the ability to kick and punch star-shaped holes between realities. Here's why America Chavez joining the MCU in 'Doctor Strange 2' is so important 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Egyptian archeologist Dr. Abdul Faoul gets a couple of superheroes to help him acquire an ancient artifact called the Ruby Scarab, which gives him superhuman strength, some invulnerability and the ability to shoot lightning blasts. ‘Moon Knight's’ finale introduces a new superhero to the MCU. Here’s her backstory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “It perhaps also speaks to the invulnerability and entitlement that affects someone who is so wealthy.” Popular British Politician Falls From Grace Over Tax Scandal 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Mostly, they’re too competitive and too armed with a sense of physical invulnerability. Sports Should Take a Holiday Vacation 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z In the new book, excerpted by The Guardian, Trump posits that despite Trump's "display of invulnerability," the former president was in fact "biting back anger or clamping down on her pain." Trump was "doing his best Mussolini impression" after his COVID diagnosis, niece writes in new book 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z “They are not regulated by any government. All of those things have created a sense of invulnerability, perhaps.” Yes. Tokyo Olympics are ‘a go’ despite opposition, pandemic 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Some believe Castro’s departure could chip away at the sense of invulnerability of the communist state that he and his brother embodied. Cuba’s Castro era to end as Raúl expected to step down from Communist Party post 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z At St. Joseph’s/Candler, a sense of youthful invulnerability was another factor for some staffers. Black Savannahians haunted by memory of mosquito experiment 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z But his aura of invulnerability has been cracked. Opinion | Even from prison, Navalny is the most potent political threat Putin has ever faced 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z No cloak of invulnerability protects the American republic. Opinion | This is Trump’s legacy 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Liverpool remain the best team in the league but their invulnerability cloak has gone. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z A growing body of psychology experiments has tried to untangle how wealth and power can lead to feelings of entitlement and invulnerability. Politicians get vaccinated early to build public trust, while furious health workers wait 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “Perhaps that gave us a sense of complacency, or maybe a sense of invulnerability, or even a sense of pride that we were somehow going to avoid this thing.” As the coronavirus surges, it is reaching into the nation’s last untouched areas 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The infection of Trump and those around him was, even more starkly, a window into an attitude of invulnerability and indifference that surrounds the president. Guests at Trump’s events scattered across the country. Potentially exposed, many of their contacts may never be identified. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “I think it is important, all ways round, to dispel the myth of invulnerability,” he said. Flurry of coronavirus reinfections leaves scientists puzzled 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z But the myth of invulnerability may have been finally shattered by an event in the White House Rose Garden last Saturday in which he nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court. Panic and confusion permeate White House following Trump's Covid diagnosis 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z But I also feel inadequate because I have this invulnerability, and there are all these people getting arrested around me, and they’re too far away for the bubble to protect them. Being a white guy at a protest is a cheat code 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z “I think we have a bit of a false sense of invulnerability. And situations like this shatter our assumptions,” says Van Tongeren. Analysis: American attitudes make virus response a hard sell 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The mood of triumphant invulnerability in the Labour camp was one the Dome company could capitalise on. Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The shooting doesn’t change a thing, not even the old man’s invulnerability; everything continues as it has. Review: Once upon a time in ... South Brooklyn 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Just as Ebola rose from West Africa, and Zika from Brazil, a virus bearing a sinister name has once again broken loose from obscurity to shake our illusion of invulnerability. As nations isolate themselves, coronavirus forces us to see we're more connected than ever 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z There is a seriousness about Madrid this season that means that while they may not always sparkle, there’s a sense of invulnerability about them right now. Zidane swaps sparkle for steel to win the Madrid derby that matters | Sid Lowe 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Complete invulnerability is impossible, but what is possible is deterrence. Opinion | Trump won’t discourage Russia from interfering in 2020, so Congress has to 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But Qahtani's belief in his own invulnerability was unfounded and he was soon struck by gunfire. The mosque siege that changed the course of Saudi history 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z For 14 years, Bolivian Indigenous movements broke the spell of invulnerability surrounding colonial oligarchy and the European-descended elite — and they still pose a significant challenge. Is Bolivia turning into a rightwing military dictatorship? | Nick Estes 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Other Republicans on Wednesday echoed Ms. McDaniel’s comment, which aligns with the effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to build up and maintain an aura of political invulnerability that does not always match reality. Republicans Claim Trump Closed a 17-Point Gap in Kentucky. That’s Not Quite What Happened. 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z A homeless Glide client tells me of the looks of disgust he gets from people who “pedestal themselves” and insist on believing in their own invulnerability. Column: What if I were homeless? An immersion course in empathy in San Francisco's Tenderloin 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Homelander is a clear stand-in for Superman, gifted with near invulnerability, X-ray vision, laser eyes, and flight, powers he uses to publicly fight for America. The Boys demonstrates why evil-Superman stories are so popular 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Like others of his ilk, his illusion of invulnerability allowed him to commit major white-collar crimes with impunity. Manafort’s sentencing shows again that white-collar criminals get off lightly | Henry N Pontell Robert H Tillman 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Theoretically, they are meant to deter another country from launching a nuclear attack, but the success of such deterrence policies relies, in part, on both technological invulnerability and relatively rational decision-makers. Ground zero Nagasaki 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “But Trump’s illusion of invulnerability is unparalleled to anything I’ve ever seen,” he added. After nearly two years in the White House, Trump's lies start catching up with him 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z He may survive this moment, but his aura of “Jupiterian” invulnerability and his international reputation as a democratic reformer are clearly gone. Paris is burning — and London too: World War IV and the crisis of democracy 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z His attempted suicide is played off as a joke; his depression and despair are just another way to demonstrate his invulnerability. Daredevil’s ‘suffering makes a man’ trope is getting old 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z This indicates that apparent invulnerability of GBM to attack by the immune system is not simply the result of its residence in the brain. Immunotherapy offers a promising bet against brain cancer 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z She’d done what seemed impossible a year ago—she’d “expanded the electorate” enough to beat an incumbent of national stature and, it once seemed, local invulnerability. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Historic Win and the Future of the Democratic Party 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Because their status and wealth protects them, this illusion of invulnerability may be exacerbated to the point that the lying continues all the way up until the lights go out.” After nearly two years in the White House, Trump's lies start catching up with him 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z At great personal cost — the ultimate cost, in two cases — these women took down vicious clans and shattered the myth of Mafia invulnerability. Review | Facing down the Mafia, and misogyny, in Southern Italy 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Waymo may be its own company, but when it comes to projecting an aura of invulnerability it helps to have your older and much tougher brother at your back. For the first time, Waymo is lifting the curtain on what is arguably the most important (and most difficult-to-understand) piece of its technology stack. The company, which is ahead in the self-driving car race by most metrics, confidently asserts that its cars have the most advanced brains on the road today. That’s thanks to a head start in AI investment, some strategic acquisitions by sister company Google, and a close working relationship with the tech giant’s in-house team of AI researchers. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death. Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z How do we, individually and as a society, move from indifference, arrogance and a false sense of invulnerability to compassion, respect and dignity for ourselves and all others? Opinion | We’re Sick of Racism, Literally 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Thibault’s hope is that Minnesota’s seeming invulnerability will free the Mystics. If Mystics want to keep playing in WNBA playoffs, they can’t play it safe again 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z But confidence in the system’s invulnerability is eroding after national security officials revealed that during the 2016 presidential race Russian hackers attempted to infiltrate elections systems in 21 states. U.S. elections are an easier target for Russian hackers than once thought 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The deftness with which the story moves from the prosaic horror of a hungry child to the comforting invulnerability of a fearless predator is remarkable. Review | ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’: A high watermark of narrative video game design 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Their bombs did more damage to Japan’s sense of invulnerability than to any physical targets. Last Surviving 'Doolittle Raider' Recalls Crucial World War II Mission 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z One of them is that the unlikeliness is enjoyable: Child has a great time with Reacher’s invulnerability, and is a good enough writer to make us enjoy it, too. How Jack Reacher Was Built 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z She had spent her childhood “coasting along with assured invulnerability,” she said. The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Further, Israel would need to demonstrate, among other things, the substantial invulnerability of its own nuclear retaliatory forces to any enemy first-strike aggressions. Israel, Playing the Role of 'Mad Dog' 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z They created around themselves cults of personality in which they took on the trappings of strength, confidence, and invulnerability – all of which served as substitutes for rational argument or thought. Robert Reich: Donald Trump is a 21st century American fascist 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Reuters cites anonymous sources close to the Kochs as saying the brothers are concerned over Trump's seeming invulnerability to lasting criticism. Where Billionaires Line Up on Donald Trump 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In a sign that Mr. Trump’s aura of invulnerability, at least for the evening, was in doubt, Mr. Cruz quipped, “I promise you, Donald, there’s nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.” In Republican Debate, a Feisty Marco Rubio Lays Into Donald Trump 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Nussbaum sensed that her mother saw her work as cold and detached, a posture of invulnerability. The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Films such as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch dispensed with the Homeric invulnerability of cinema’s formative heroes. How Isis hijacked pop culture, from Hollywood to video games 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z If China resists depreciation and capital outflows continue, the erosion of reserves could puncture the PBOC’s air of invulnerability, leading to faster capital leakage. Fight or flight 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It provides a profound, unshakable conviction of one’s invulnerability.” Henry Krystal, Holocaust Trauma Expert, Dies at 90 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z James Hardy, the Asia-Pacific editor of IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, said the parade was about using military power to send a message about “China’s strength and invulnerability” both at home and abroad. Xi Jinping pledges 300,000 cut in army even as China shows military might 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z A suit of armor that grants its wearer delusions of invulnerability while depriving them of social graces. The New Devil’s Dictionary 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z His phone was covered by one of those tank-like cases that promises near invulnerability against drops and shocks. The Real Reason You Should Keep Your Phone Screen Clean 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Superman presents some distinct challenges from a design perspective due to his litany of powers which include outright flight, something most superhero sandboxes stay away from, and his near invulnerability in every non-Kryptonite-infused situation. Which Developer Can Redeem Superman After A String Of Terrible Games? 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z And I’m sure it was significant, too, that his career was already in decline, that he was losing his aura of invulnerability. Federer and Me: ‘I hadn’t known such excellence was possible. And the effect upon me was instantaneous’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The nature of the war is changing as Shia militia, Kurdish militia, Iraqi military and Iran are beginning to seriously challenge IS’s invulnerability. The Dangers Of The Islamic State Becoming More Like Al-Qaeda 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Whatever an athlete’s transgressions might be, they typically begin with that false sense of invulnerability. Victim Gives Athletes a Firsthand Account of Violence Against Women 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The apparent unique invulnerability of the American economy to such crises was one of the things that made both the U.S. economy and the American financial model so attractive. The Global Financial Crisis: A Turning Point 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z If the attacks shocked many Canadians out of their sense of invulnerability, they shouldn’t have. Canada's Homegrown Terrorist Awakening 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Despite his longevity and seeming invulnerability, Roberts entered this election campaign with a major problem: Many voters in Kansas had no clue what he had done in Congress. For Pat Roberts of Kansas, a pivot from agriculture concerns has repercussions And it could erode what the Secret Service training manuals called “one of the best tools for deterring future attempts” — the White House’s aura of invulnerability. Secret Service reviews White House security after fence-jumper enters mansion The effort seems intended to exalt the Islamic State and project an image of invulnerability and the inevitability of its triumph. Islamic State releases slick video exalting its fighters 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Denting the group’s mystique and appearance of invulnerability is therefore key to eroding its global standing. Putting The Islamic State In Proper Context 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “It takes away some of his aura of invulnerability.” Cuomo defeats challenger Teachout in NY primary 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The problem is, all of these involve suddenly stripping the character of his or her relative invulnerability. 'The Last of Us': How Game Design Shaped Naughty Dog's Masterpiece, And Transformed Its Ending 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z What are top executives responsible for if not “corporate culture”? The failure of consequences at the top of GM is one more example of the invulnerability of the power elite. General Motors’ poor performance over car recall A 1999 paper in The Journal of Family Practice attributed this behavior to a need to project being in control, a sense of invulnerability and a reluctance to ask for help. With Special Clinics, Hospitals Vie for Hesitant Patients: Men 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Rugby players do not launch themselves at each other head-first, emboldened by the illusion of invulnerability that a helmet brings. 'We're putting brain-damaged people back on the field' 2013-11-01T13:43:20Z Both work hard to present an aura of invulnerability and inevitability, when in reality both are exposed to the fickle laws of chance. Borussia Dortmund, Malaga and Europe's political football of austerity 2013-04-03T08:00:02Z An Iran with nukes just might inhibit the Jewish state's brutish pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and apartheid empire. Yesterday: Iraq. Tomorrow: Iran? 2013-03-18T15:13:32Z In fact, that lack of interest may be a result of users’ feelings of invulnerability. As White House Backs Device Unlocking, 4.6 Million iPad Jailbreakers Left In Legal Limbo 2013-03-04T23:50:51Z The Government of the United States must again serve American interests, not Israel's paranoid pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and apartheid supremacist empire in, and beyond, the Mideast. Can Chuck Hagel's Nomination Survive the Senate? 2013-01-31T17:05:26Z The psychiatrist, who was also interested in how Jewish humour developed its distinctive wryness under conditions of persecution, said that such jokes were "a victorious assertion of the ego's invulnerability". The pun conundrum 2013-01-16T00:55:26Z "To put it very simply, male nudity was closely linked to strength, invulnerability and heroism, the female nude to beauty and erotics," she says. The shock of the (male) nude 2012-11-19T00:45:01Z For most famous men, the ride starts later but the lesson of invulnerability is just as powerfully learned. Why Powerful Men Cheat 2012-11-16T10:55:00Z “Power and success give people a sense of invulnerability,” Mira Kirshenbaum, clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute in Boston said in a USA Today story. Petraeus probe 2012-11-15T15:51:05Z I also remember that I was confused by the whole invulnerability aspect of the story. Achilles Had Only 2 Heels 2012-11-09T14:45:02.983Z One legacy of Mandela’s righteousness and the A.N.C.’s victory over white racism has been electoral invulnerability. Miners Charged With Murdering Themselves in South Africa 2012-08-30T23:20:29Z A far larger 50 percent cited the relative invulnerability of their business models as justification for launching in a downturn. No Time Like the Present 2012-08-21T13:00:00Z The next few days will determine whether Assad's government can recover from the bombing, which wiped out much of his command structure in a single blow and destroyed his clan's decades-old aura of merciless invulnerability. Syrian forces attempt fight back after rebel surge 2012-07-21T03:10:43Z He also lost the all-important sense of invulnerability. What Assad's Regime Lost in a Devastating Blast 2012-07-18T18:05:21Z "Acceptance about the housing market's invulnerability was pervasive," Ms. Grind writes. DealBook: Washington Mutual's Former Chief Takes Issue With Book's Portrayal 2012-06-21T16:56:38Z Illusion of invulnerability — Creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks. The trouble with ‘Groupthink’ in school reform 2012-06-09T10:00:00Z The Holy See was thus provided with a militia, recruited and sustained at the expense of the faithful, panoplied in invulnerability, and devoted to its exclusive service. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z In such circumstances, to the tired soldier-mind the pursuing enemy becomes in time invested with a species of invulnerability. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z The apple of discord, the arrows of Philoctetes, the invulnerability of Achilles, and similar fancies, are the additions of later poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Adolescent feelings of invulnerability no doubt played a role. Well Blog: Drunk Driving Rates Remain High 2011-10-18T16:02:06Z Illusion of invulnerability — Creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks. The trouble with ‘Groupthink’ in school reform 2012-06-09T10:00:00Z “The shell of invulnerability that Rupert Murdoch had around him has been cracked,” said James Post, a professor at Boston University’s School of Management who has written about governance and business ethics. Murdoch Struggles to Control News Corp. as Scandal Escalates 2011-07-17T23:43:45Z It would only make her uneasy, and, besides, Sam had the most rooted faith in his chief’s invulnerability. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z He spoke of his duty to his own country, and, in a word, covered himself with the invulnerability of his official position. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z But some puissant necromantic spell of invulnerability turned all his bullets aside from the eagle's head, and from the general's too. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The attack on September 11 was a new and shocking event, which rocked old certainties about the world in general and American invulnerability in particular. Ask the Experts: What Does Bin Laden's Death Mean to Us and Society? 2011-05-04T16:45:06.180Z Let us nip his complacent sense of invulnerability in the bud. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Back in, say, October, the chatter was about Asia’s invulnerability to Wall Street’s woes. Roubini’s Next Crisis Is Scary Food for Thought: William Pesek 2011-02-13T20:07:38Z The Keokuk was built by a gentleman who had full faith in her invulnerability. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z He now for the first time saw that strange side of her, that invulnerability, as though nothing could harm her. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z And without that highly polished veneer of invulnerability, Fonzie’s neurotic fear of self-exposure and weakness, which is meant to fuel this rather silly book, just doesn’t make dramatic sense. | Long Island: ?Happy Days? Arrives on Stage in Bellport 2010-05-28T23:03:00Z It's a fair bet that not many of them, if any, would have ventured to express their doubts before Woods piled his SUV into a fire hydrant, destroying his aura of control and invulnerability. Cavendish needs to curb behaviour 2010-05-03T23:05:00Z Irvine replied that big crowds are no longer a guarantee of invulnerability. Irvine seeks Sheffield salvation 2010-04-30T23:17:00Z Such lasers play into America's can-do hubris, compounded by the frisson of excitement generated by theoretical invulnerability they provide. 2010-02-16T09:00:00Z Did he suspect, behind this wall of invulnerability, the ironical feminine secrecy of her silently smouldering inner life? The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Well, that brings us face to face with two comparatively new facts that throw a shadow upon both that predominance and upon that invulnerability. The Salvaging Of Civilisation But among soldiers the most widely spread superstition was that concerned with invulnerability. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim It was very much in the interest of these authorities to keep up amongst the revengeful soldiery the belief in their invulnerability. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Vast events were maturing; the making an end, then, of this man, with the semi-supernatural reputation for invulnerability, would be a fitting precursor of them. Harley Greenoak's Charge She must above all retain for that possible day her most charming tranquillity, all her invulnerability, all her inviolability. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z But, above all, he must keep up his character for invulnerability. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War I had no doubt that many unseen eyes followed my exit and even if it were for a brief time, I wished to go with the seeming of divine invulnerability. The Portal of Dreams Bear impersonators among the Battle Mountain Paiute were credited with invulnerability in war, which is reminiscent of the use of a bear-hide cloak by Washo “rough men.” Washo Religion His enemy, Loake, determined to discover the secret of his invulnerability, and, disguising himself as an old woman, went to the mother with a question of the reason of his immunity. Threads of Grey and Gold But she laughed at the thought: she had a firm faith in her invulnerability. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z And the sea has more than that to give us, more than physical well-being and invulnerability to the arrows of the winter winds. Old Plymouth Trails The fight at this place was well-nigh the end of Hauhauism, for the British bullets laid low many a misguided enthusiast who relied on the prophet's promise of invulnerability. A History of the English Church in New Zealand Mrs. Riley, less impressionable, kept an even mind in view of the natural invulnerability of childhood and the special guardianship of Divine Omnipotence. When Ghost Meets Ghost A quiet-voiced man was talking, lauding the exploit of the three embattled Earthmen, skillfully and subtly enkindling enthusiasm, raising wholesome doubts as to the invulnerability of the hated Mercutians. Slaves of Mercury This invulnerability is shared by all degenerates: epileptics, imbeciles, and the morally insane. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Thus is the old myth revived and the modern Achilles may find invulnerability beneath the Styx, nor need his heel be left above the tide for his undoing. Old Plymouth Trails The invulnerability of the Monitors, and the peculiar arrangement by which this important end is obtained, are but one of the items necessary to make up the complete efficiency of war steamers. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The man had not been taken to the Hospital, as his family had opposed his going on the ground of his invulnerability. When Ghost Meets Ghost They hooked over the edge; and leisurely, with grim surety of invulnerability, the barrel-like head of a Quabo balanced itself on the ledge and glared at us. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 He was accounted to be possessed of an almost supernatural courage and invulnerability; of a physical strength and quickness that partook of magic. The Roof Tree They never had any preconceived notions about us or their own invulnerability. The Long Trick As soon as our first supplies of inertron-sheathed rockets came through, their invulnerability would be at an end, as indeed would be that of the Han cities themselves. The Airlords of Han To the informed mind it will appear that the Goddite is weakening his case with every step he takes in the direction of what he apparently believes to be a demonstration of its logical invulnerability. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative On the fourth night the shaman gives to each man a small charmed root which has the power to confer invulnerability. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 They had proclaimed so loudly and so long its absolute invulnerability that they not only believed it themselves, but all the world had come to believe it as well. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude He was armed, it appeared, with a fission-throwing weapon in one hand and some sort of tranquilizer—I deem it to have been a Stollgratz 16—in the other; moreover, he wore an invulnerability belt. The Day of the Boomer Dukes Gradually the fear wore off, and at length that feeling of invulnerability which is so strong in youth, induced him to dismiss the subject from his thoughts altogether. The Hot Swamp Yet this very extraordinary incident was not, to M’Bongwele, wholly conclusive evidence as to their invulnerability. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure They did not want to listen, those men who waited futilely by the gyrocar which had witnessed the invulnerability of the Wabbly to all attack. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Under Arcot's guidance the ship from Earth, still invisible, returned to the approximate spot where they had destroyed the invulnerability of the Giant. The Black Star Passes That much of this crusade had turned into a rear-guard action was due less to the weakness of the defenders of the faith than to the invulnerability of their non-resistant victim. The Necessity of Atheism For there is connection, to a certain extent, between insensibility and invulnerability. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 The Long Island Nuclear Power Plant, Melroy thought, had all the invulnerability of Achilles—and no more. Day of the Moron They are always the possessors of necklaces,15 to which are attributed such powers as those of imparting invisibility and invulnerability. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir While she resented the invulnerability with which he guarded his own feelings, it is probable that any different attitude on his part would have brought forth a more active unkindness on hers. The Parts Men Play Ga�tan retired from the stage at the successful d�but of Auguste, but appeared again from time to time to show his invulnerability to time. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag But, on the other hand, we must not forget that insensibility and invulnerability, though to a certain extent allied, are two distinct things. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Manned by brave officers and crew, it came down the Yazoo into the Mississippi, and, secure in her fancied invulnerability, challenged the whole Union fleet which was assisting in the siege of Vicksburg. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders He left an able successor in his seat of power, but a man without that prestige of invulnerability which a lifetime of political combat and victory had given the deceased leader. The Young Man and the World Roselawn differed little from the hundreds of English country-houses, the seclusion and invulnerability of which have played so great a part in forming the English character. The Parts Men Play Is that sufficiently enthralling, or should I add that the invulnerability of the Boxer has been officially and indisputably tested by the Manchus, according to the gossip of the day? Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation The use that can be made of floating-batteries, as auxiliaries in attacking shore-works, must depend on further confirmation of their asserted invulnerability. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. He thought himself fortunate in so good an opportunity to put his invulnerability to the proof. Bressant The old superstition as to his invulnerability had never more thoroughly possessed the imaginations of his adherents. A Hoosier Chronicle It is characteristic of Norse folk-lore to ascribe troll-like qualities to beings about which there seems to be something supernatural, such as invulnerability. The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries Such confidence had the Lindsays in the invulnerability of his constitution that they were not alarmed when he experienced his inevitable first indisposition of a serious character. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 We tried to show you how you might awaken to a consciousness of the reality of the "I"; its real nature; its independence of the body; its immortality; its invincibility and invulnerability. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga Though the diver was shielded by the impenetrable fickle element that gave Achilles invulnerability, the air-pump above was exposed, and thus the diver might be slain by indirection. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 This accounted for our apparent invulnerability to the fire of the Mexicans. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 But what these want in personality they possess in number, in recurrency, in invulnerability. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I So he had abandoned all his pretensions to a magical invulnerability, and rushed under the eave of the Queen's Elm to join the omnibus group. The Roll-Call I have borne a charmed life—established a record for invulnerability, which served me well in the East where the gods still walk in the semblance of man and miracle is still persistently prevalent. Deadham Hard High speed is probably quite as important as invulnerability. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 Let me consider his antislavery notions and his invulnerability to deceit. Who Goes There? A feeling of immense power and invulnerability surged through them. The Runaway Asteroid Science has but the strength of a puling babe against his invulnerability. Stage-Land He had, or thought that he had, a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. Les Misérables My brother boasts his invulnerability," he said, turning to his neighbour, "let him look to it, Messer Cupido will have him yet. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Rose had a look of invulnerability; perhaps she knew, but it was impossible to ask, and if she knew, it had made no difference. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing But note, as yet more important, that tremendous and unique consciousness of absolute invulnerability against the assaults. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV His yogic power was such that he either could will them not to bite, or could escape to an inner invulnerability. Autobiography of a Yogi Moreover, her growing invulnerability to hurt through him set, in large measure, the attitude of the household; everybody was more comfortable. Life at High Tide They said he always washed there—in water medicated with distilments to prolong life and produce invulnerability; but of this they could of course know nothing. Malcolm The muscles of his face twitched in irritation, as if his wife's very frailty were baffling invulnerability. Over the Pass Safety -- N. safety, security, surety, impregnability; invulnerability, invulnerableness &c. adj.; danger past, danger over; storm blown over; coast clear; escape &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases So far had belief in the invulnerability of the modern ship curtailed sane and proper provision for taking care of her people in time of calamity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Siegfried's invulnerability save in one spot reminds us of Achilles, who also was made invulnerable by a bath, and who could be wounded only in the heel. The Story of Siegfried He passed through unnumbered dangers unscathed; and his invulnerability became a proverb among his associates. His Sombre Rivals Even Turnbull, with his typical invulnerability, was a little taken aback by this boisterous and almost brutal hospitality. The Ball and the Cross But one of Rama’s allies, knowing the secret of the king’s invulnerability, transformed himself by magic into the likeness of the king, and going to the hermit asked back his soul. The Golden Bough There was some reason for the Ring's faith in its invulnerability. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Humans tamed their own nature and discovered, at the peak of what seemed to become a collective sense of invulnerability, that there are still points of individual vulnerability. The Civilization of Illiteracy Graham on his powerful horse soon became a conspicuous object, and all gave way before him as if he were a messenger of death, at the same time wondering at his invulnerability. His Sombre Rivals With what a self-satisfied smile she retired into herself, into the consciousness of her inaccessibility, her invulnerability, and with what condescension she abandoned herself to the lawful embrace of her well-bred husband! Virgin Soil After that you make in the pot a decoction which confers the gift of invulnerability. The Golden Bough He wondered if safety came on the morrow he would not surrender to this feminine invulnerability. Active Service This invulnerability is now drastically tested, despite the enormous effort to address AIDS. The Civilization of Illiteracy I did not spend my night at prayers, as may be supposed, but I employed about two hours in insuring my invulnerability; then, satisfied with the result, I slept soundly, for I was terribly tired. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Such is the invincible independence and invulnerability of humility.” Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Cannon had heard so much of the invulnerability of this tremendous animal, that he never attempted to fire, but, slipping the strap from his forehead, let go the buffalo meat and ran for his life. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains One of the means employed by the Marabouts to gain influence in the eyes of the Arabs is by causing a belief in their invulnerability. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life We must give serious thought to our obsession with invulnerability, easy to conceptualize and express in language. The Civilization of Illiteracy |
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