What is "indelibly"

Usage examples of "indelibly".

And then the question became more personal as against Miss Dunstable, and inquiry was urged whether the county would not be indelibly disgraced if it were not only handed over to a woman, but handed over to a woman who sold the oil of Lebanon.

Brown to veil, as far as he was able, the vivacity of his looks beneath an expression of open and unheeding good-nature, an expression strangely enough contrasting with the closeness and sagacity which Nature had indelibly stamped upon features pointed, aquiline, and impressed with a strong mixture of the Judaical physiognomy.

He poised the point over the delicate rice paper then wrote firmly: Sword of my fathers When in my hands Twists uneasily The writing was in three short, flowing vertical lines of characters, strong where they should be strong and soft where softness would enhance the picture that the characters made--never a second chance to refine or change or correct even the slightest fault, the texture of the rice paper sucking in the ink at once to become indelibly a part of it, varying the black to grey depending how the brush was used and the amount of water therein.

Drew Westling had brought back the one boyhood memory that was indelibly, impressed upon his mind.

But then, precisely at the very moment when I believed myself certain that I was going to gaze upon the beloved features which had been in one interview indelibly engraved upon my heart, I saw the most disagreeable face appear, and a creature announced that you were engaged for the whole day, and without giving me time to utter one word she disappeared!

I had heard that bull bellow only once before, but it had been indelibly engrooved on my eardrum.

The portraits in the book are indelibly etched in our minds: Ruth's hardworking, laughing father whose Chaplinesque humor and skill at mime carried the family through its darkest, most impoverished times.

To Julie they yielded the knees to him and one slid to the floor, alleviated, with the image of Zack grasping the weapon while he pushed it towards the lobby indelibly recorded in the memory.

Absolute masterpieces, guar­anteed to stamp the name of Wister indelibly forever upon the public consciousness.

It was amazing, considering how short and frenzied his first flight over this alien landscape had been, how indelibly those crenulated walls had carved themselves into his memory.

The figure of Major Boyette, one of the circus's main attractions, will remain indelibly in the reader's mind as the sort of phantasmagoric entity only possible in SF: “the last surviving POW of the American War, now well over a hundred years old and horribly disfigured,” the major crouches in his tent like an ancient oracular ape, grasping at shattered memories.

The figure of Major Boyette, one of the circus's main attractions, will remain indelibly in the reader's mind as the sort of phantasmagoric entity only possible in SF: "the last surviving POW of the American War, now well over a hundred years old and horribly disfigured," the major crouches in his tent like an ancient oracular ape, grasping at shattered memories.

As a journalist he had acquired the habit of noticing and memorizing every striking or thrilling incident, and the experiences of his prison life were adapted to enstamp themselves indelibly on both feeling and memory.

The refinements of his recent civilization expunged by the force of the sad calamity which had befallen him, left only the primitive sensibilities which his childhood's training had imprinted indelibly upon the fabric of his mind.

These are events which are indelibly burned into their memories for all time - and not solely on account of their being eyewitnesses to the events, but on account of having been participants in those events.