unsusceptible

Let not mercy be the only virtue of which your heart is unsusceptible!

There must be some such unsusceptible substances in nature.

For the uninitiated or unsusceptible, it's a dog thing: you wouldn't understand.

I had now almost come to the conclusion that I was absolutely unsusceptible of the hasheesh influence.

The silence and the heat wcighed even upon the hard and unsusceptible men who followed Zouga in single file.

His temperament was a mixture of the phlegmatic and nervous, and he was generally rather unsusceptible to stimulus.

Signor Gismondi was not unsusceptible.

But this woman, though palpably real from moment to moment, remains an enigma, her chameleonlike behavior being unsusceptible to accountability and closure.

Possibly, he postulated, it was "the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character unsusceptible of civilization."

The designers analyzed IDEA to measure its strength against differential cryptanalysis and concluded that it is unsusceptible only under certain assumptions.

Granny Weatherwax considered herself totally unsusceptible to buttering up, but the king was expertly applying the equivalent of the dairy surplus of quite a large country.

For many educated Americans, the area is terra incognita, as unsusceptible to interpretation and as tempting to scornful invective as Mr. Nixon himself.

The only names which are unsusceptible of definition, because their meaning is unsusceptible of analysis, are the names of the simple feelings themselves.

Peter Watson seems not so much "unanalyzed" as unsusceptible to the inner worlds of contemplation, meditationand emotion (Questions for Peter Watson, Deborah Solomon, Dec. 18).

Since tylosin has a relatively poor spectrum of activity against gram negative organisms, it may not be a sensible therapeutic choice in the treatment of infections caused by unknown, potentially unsusceptible organisms.

Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways (p. 82), and, of course, infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity.

Though widely acknowledged as a major figure in American modern dance, Doris Humphrey created work whose measured tone and intellectual underpinnings have made it seem relatively inaccessible, and unsusceptible to revivifying personal interpretation.

But apart from the fact that at my age I am already nearly unsusceptible to encouragement, what help could it be to me anyway, if it only comes when it isn't primarily a matter of myself at all?

Although he usually subjected the faces of his regular models to all kinds of experimental variations, his mother's face, with its severe mouth and heavily lidded eyes, changes very little, as if it were frozen in time, unsusceptible to reinventive manipulation.

He was not unsusceptible of warm attachments in his later life, for when the good bachelor came to live with Mr Garland upon the clergyman's decease, he conceived a great friendship for him, and amiably submitted to be driven by his hands without the least resistance.

English philosopher John Stuart Mill experienced a several-months-long period of what he called "a dull state of nerves", when one is "unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent".

(Some birds are susceptible to scurvy, but pigeons, as seed-eating birds, were later found to be unsusceptible to scurvy, as they produce vitamin C.) Holst and Frølich found they could cure scurvy in guinea pigs with the addition of various fresh foods and extracts.