(a.) Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, if Tynan's screen output was small, his writing on film is imperishable.
(2) And they were the inheritors of an imperishable Labour movement tradition.
(3) His contribution to the music community is imperishable,” managing director Rory Jeffes said.
(4) But in the desire to maintain the orthodoxies of the day (which must always pass as imperishable truths), instead of reaffirming the common wisdom, the disseminators of (fixed) ideas have been in danger of defeating their own purpose.
(5) Perishable, it attempts to arrogate to itself the prerogative of imperishable time, of separating good books from bad."
(6) It was the cause not very célèbre which not only resulted in an unlikely and humdrum Czechoslovakian clay-courter Jan Kodes being elevated into the imperishable pantheon of Wimbledon champions but gave the OK for a large and itinerant bunch of professional tennis players to bond themselves into the richest group of travelling sportsmen on the planet, which they remain.
(7) Nevertheless, Bowie persevered, moving to New York even while songs as imperishable as Rebel Rebel were missing the US top 40 (though scoring at home in the UK), and in 1974 embarking on his Diamond Dogs tour, a massively theatrical undertaking that traversed America without going to Europe at all.
(8) In an essay celebrating the award, the critic Elaine Showalter acknowledged him as an artist who "changed imperishably the way we see and understand the world".
(9) The music, it seems, is imperishable, even if the drama should be treated more carefully.
(10) The book contains dozens of imperishable phrases and judgments, but few stick in the mind like the opening of his Wilder demolition: "Billy Wilder is too cynical to believe even his own cynicism."
(11) The British army cameramen also filmed the arrival of a mobile bath unit, and it is here, as the women survivors re-encounter warm water, that the film imperishably supplies the idea that, in spite of man-made horror, life somehow remains a blessing.
(12) I grew up playing beach soccer with all my buddies,” said Hejduk, a midfielder with 85 US caps who grew up nearby in Cardiff-by-the-Sea and has the southern Californian aura and vocabulary of Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn’s imperishable character from the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
(13) Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers, and that the aspiration for a civilised life, that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it, is proper and common to all.
(14) This from a man, as she noted, who had written more lovingly of the ditches and the daisies and the ruinstrewn land “with a beautiful and imperishable loneliness”.
Indestructible
Definition:
(a.) Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tim Nice-But-Dim may seem annoyingly indestructible, but by expanding the horizons of others, we can undermine him.
(2) But we loved it.” The block was only a few years old when the brothers moved in and has proved as indestructible as Chaplin’s reputation.
(3) Pushed by the press and fired by Britain’s seemingly indestructible institutional desire to be loved by America, prime ministers feel the need to seize first friend status and hug it close.
(4) Alliances can wither or be destroyed, but partnerships of purpose are indestructible.
(5) They too lost their compass, went too far and believed themselves indestructible.
(6) Forty years ago, there were lots of old and oldish people in the movies but they didn’t pretend to be young and indestructible, because where’s the drama in that?
(7) The aggressive Humvee mindset spawned a less antisocial alternative: the SUV (sport utility vehicle), with its high-up military-style vantage point, from which to spot approaching danger, and with macho bumpers signalling solidity and indestructibility.
(8) We feel it highlights that family is an indestructible bond between people that is universal and it doesn’t matter how it is made or what it looks like.
(9) Joined previously successful combo and is still around, misunderstood, but seemingly indestructible.
(10) Technically the challenge, brilliantly met, must have been the handling of that enormous flock of free-range characters and the disposing of the maddening, mysterious, apparently indestructible Widmerpool.
(11) The authors analyse the results of the treatment of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum by indestructible red laser radiation in 65 patients.
(12) It may not be the end of his political life -- given his seemingly indestructible appeal to sections of the Italian population.
(13) Crucially, he was seen as a born survivor and indestructible powerbroker, a rain-maker who could not be bypassed or sidelined.
(14) To Swansea fans he’s our rock, an indestructible superhero.
(15) Microplastics are near-indestructible in natural environments.
(16) The words should be indestructible but they are fleeting.
(17) The invention of CDs meant we all wanted to replace our record collections with wonderful new shiny, "indestructible" CDs and we were all happy to fork out £16 or £17 for each one; it also became de rigeur to have a library of videos prominently displayed in the corner of your living room.
(18) As a consequence of these facts, perfect metals for application in implants must have a short repassivation period and mechanically indestructible surface oxides.
(19) "What is interesting, on reflection, is how comfortable everyone was with the notion that banks were somehow indestructible," he said.
(20) They are not indestructible, and there are not as many of them as we think.