Dambazau lamented that a more challenging aspect of the whole issue that facilitates the movement of weapons into the country was the
porousness of the nation's borders.
The
porousness of a meteoroid and its makeup affects how it breaks up once it starts diving toward Earth, the scientists say, so much larger or denser objects might not have as much trouble getting all the way to the planet's surface.
This is only the most obvious iteration of the theme of
porousness and contamination which, appropriately, pervades the book as a whole.
Commensurately, intellectuals' boundaries against emotional
porousness register as de facto refusals to embody the revolution.
Set primarily in England, the major plot lines, which involve both courtship and courtroom drama, hinge directly upon the main characters' adventures abroad; their brushes with the colonial sphere remind us of the
porousness of the empire's boundaries.
The anxiety that attends to the vulnerability of bodily
porousness and the potential for the exploitation of that
porousness infuse all three opinions with a unique kind of urgency--the micropolitical, affective battle waged within each opinion is almost understood to be tied to the macropolitical affective battle a wounded nation wages against HIV, an unremitting viral interloper.
Maintain wooden cutting boards by regularly oiling them in order to reduce their
porousness.
The current insecurity results from various factors, including a deficit in administrative care by the state, impunity which favors neglect, the politicization and instrumentalization of customary power and the
porousness of our country's frontiers," the letter contended.
Chemists have long sought the holy grail of being able to produce materials molecule-by-molecule, precisely engineering properties such as charge,
porousness, flexibility and conductivity.
Content leaves safe spaces and moves into more combative ones as a consequence of the
porousness of the new media environment.
Thus, even as the future may now appear more uncertain, less predictable, and perhaps even less promising than one figured by the terms of modernism, these same features suggest in the present a
porousness and uncharted potential that can lead to futures outside the lines of modernist presumptions.
The second part of the quote--allowing for a certain kind of
porousness, or transparency, between his own family stories and the larger landscape of history--captures the singular feature of Wideman's memoirs, Brothers and Keepers and Fatheralong, and his last novel, Fanon, in which he measures the life and teachings of the revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon on the most intimate scale, wondering what difference they could have made, for example, in the life of his brother, who is still serving a life sentence for a murder committed in 1975.
