Sentences with phrase «often impenetrable»

As anyone who has attempted to read Scheds A1 and 1A to MCA 2005 will testify, the DOLS are overly complex, excessively bureaucratic and often impenetrable.

This Annihilation spoiler review will attempt to get to the heart of Garland's often impenetrable film.

IL - 22 is a potent inducer of mucins, the large glycoproteins that create a thick, often impenetrable barrier, on mucosal surfaces [60, 61].

Graves believes that the common denominators of breeding habitats are dense understory vegetation, quite often impenetrable, and moist soils carpeted with leaf litter.

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Meanwhile, bewildered German executives have been snapping up «how - to» books on Chinese networking culture, which they often perceive as nepotistic and impenetrable.

Seen alternately from the conceptual perspective of existentialism, this mode of being in the world is what is called «bad faith» or «inauthenticity»: the attempt, often profoundly successful, to act as if one were a thing, an impenetrable object — the self that «need be no more original than a stone» (PR 159).

None of this happens without your consent, but consent is often obtained by sleight - of - click, via lengthy and impenetrable service agreements.

The magnificence of modern science is often shrouded behind a realm of mathematical hieroglyphs and impenetrable scientific jargon while the most significant results can be at once subtle, yet profound.

Our evolutionarily discordant dietary environment has been linked to conditions as diverse as heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and schizophrenia.2, 3 Often, the brain is seen as a space unto itself, as though the blood - brain barrier were an impenetrable border that spares the brain the deleterious effects the rest of the body suffers as a result of a physiologically incongruous diet.

The writer - director previously served as an intern on three of Terrence Malick's films — Weightless, Voyage of Time, The Tree of Life — and certainly picked up a thing or two from the impenetrable filmmaker, whose works often serve as meditations on life, death, and man's place in the natural world.

The conceit is right there in the name: A bunch of guys — it's almost always guys, though that's beginning to change — team up to swipe something valuable from a seemingly impenetrable stronghold, often with the odds stacked against them.

Too often, indie film is defined either by a jaded, ironic sensibility or an impenetrable, intellectualized alienation, and there was plenty of both on display in Park City.

The most interesting notion that the new «Tomb Raider» reboot has to offer apparently comes from the 2013 reimagining of the original»90s video game: It gives us a Lara Croft who's capable but not superhuman, making her more like Bruce Willis» legendary John McClane (in the first few «Die Hard» movies, anyway) than the usual impenetrable war machines who so often anchor action flicks and video games.

As a result, this makes PTA's latest venture almost impenetrable — at least for an initial viewing — and more often than not, an extremely labouring exercise.

This can often make the spy seem impenetrable, with Lawrence's porcelain doll features conveying little in terms of genuine emotion.

What bothers me is that often successful grant - getters use language to obscure rather than to illuminate their ideas, thereby writing a proposal of such impenetrable murkiness as to make Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics read like Pat The Bunny.

A new report from the commissioner, entitled «Growing Up Digital», has warned that many children are being left to learn about the internet on their own, often signing up to «impenetrable terms and conditions that they could never be expected to understand».

These are often the first contracts a child signs in their life, yet the terms and conditions are impenetrable, even to most adults.»

It recommended that parents should not be «addressed in the often turgid, sometimes impenetrable language of the curriculum».

But the journey from academic research to everyday classroom practice is fraught with challenges: teachers don't have time to keep up with current trends and thought leaders, schools can't afford subscriptions to journals, and academic articles are often written in impenetrable language.

With her usual keen eye for detail and humor, Isaacs takes a hard look at the sometimes impenetrable, often absurd social politics of upscale New York.

Their ability to avoid recapture was often due to their retrieval into the thick forests and dense swamps that were impenetrable to European pursuers.

Contemporary art too often rejects sincerity for irony and sentimentality for impenetrable theoretical musings.

The speech lampooned the arts community for its lack of intellectual rigor, comparing the openness and public knowledge of scientific debates with the often - impenetrable discourse around art.

The difficulty with Deacon's art is that while aesthetically pleasing, his works struggle to engage with viewers and can often feel impenetrable.

These implements, often taken up in anger, have a tendency to glance off the nigh - impenetrable packaging and wound the hands that wield them.

After law school and years wrapped in legal research and writing, we forget how damn impenetrable the law can often be.