But while scratch-tagging cannot take on complex forms like spray painting, it does have one advantage: indelibility.

To think in the first person was to conjure up the pain in all its fierceness, bitterness, indelibility.

If Jordan had wanted airtight indelibility, he would have passed on his risky return, leaving the collection of moments by Mike hermetically sealed.

As it flows along, moving through rich, unforced chromatic harmonies, its indelibility can't be explained by the hammering home of a formula.

Anatole Broyard lived in a world where race had, indeed, become a trope for indelibility, for permanence.

That subtlety and indelibility of gesture - and gesture as part of a seamless, resilient whole - informed all the dances.

There was no indication in the Act of any Parliamentary intention to subject all acts of vandalism committed with paint to an ad hoc test of indelibility.

Ellison's life was oddly poetic, the unfinished work itself a metaphor of hope - a vast, fecund, illimitable manuscript that is unwilling to restrict itself to the indelibility of published print.

In proclaiming the indelibility of the attack and expressing outrage at its "dastardly" nature, the speech worked to crystallize and channel the response of the nation into a collective response and resolve.

He cited several "irregularities," ranging from possible tampering with the plastic seals used to prevent ballot box tampering, to the indelibility of the ink placed on voters' fingers to prevent them from voting twice.

But then the venting turned vitriolic, and the small-town gossip and backbiting that one might hear over backyard fences started appearing anonymously on the Web site, acquiring an indelibility and ubiquity that only the Internet can provide.

In another sketch that suggests the indelibility of caricatures, Phil Hartman plays Ronald Reagan as a wizard of mental acuity behind the scenes, doing complicated math in his head and snapping at his advisers for not keeping up with his mastery of world politics.

As exemplified by Bracton and others, they expatiated upon the Roman conception of the indelibility of servitude-pure theory, be it remembered, not Roman practice-and used Roman phrases like homines de corpore for those who owed seigniorial or familial services.

It would be a letter one and a half inches high-the regulations became quite specific on this point-and it would either be burned on with a hot iron or cut with a razor and the wound filled with black powder, both to cause irritation and indelibility.