the impenetrability of her prose is apparently the basis of her appeal to literary snobs
Recent Examples on the WebOne begins to think in terms of doors, hatches, coffers and windows, and yet there is often a sense of impenetrability, as if the walls suggest the possibility of passage yet limit egress. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 Inland Empire, however, is on its own island of pure impenetrability. David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022 That notion of impenetrability seemed to be holding true for Facebook, now Meta, until recently. Danielle Seurkamp, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022 Nature abhors a vacuum, and the vastness of Egyptian statuary made the vacuum left by the hieroglyphs’ impenetrability seem comparably great.The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021 All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde—a remarkable trifecta of records that stand as the apogee of Dylan’s trademark impenetrability, lyrically and otherwise. John Semley, The New Republic, 26 May 2021 The earth-shifting quality of Serra comes from the material’s stubborn texture, its impenetrability. Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 18 May 2021 Those random-looking squiggles seem to symbolise the impenetrability of the language, the difficulty of the task ahead.The Economist, 8 May 2021 The difficulty in pinning the blame on machines lies in the impenetrability of the AI decision-making process, according to a paper on tort liability and AI published in the AMA Journal of Ethics last year. Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 20 Sep. 2020 See More