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It’s no longer in use; grass and dirt cover much of its surface, and the road at its far end is overgrown to the point of impassibility.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2018

Baudouin advises that particular suggestions in these cases should be directed rather against the motor expression than against the psychic cause, that our aim should be to cultivate a state of physical impassibility.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Emile Coué

What is this impassibility but freedom from the vices and passions, purity of heart, the adornment of virtue?

From On Union with God by P. J. Berthier

The first expression of rage, mingled with amazement and mortification, having rapidly glinted across his countenance, his features became as a mask of impassibility.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

He to whom it was addressed, started, blenched ever so slightly, his countenance immediately resuming its mask of bronze impassibility.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford




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