impassivity
Example Sentences
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His lack of verbal expression, however, did not reveal impassivity.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2019
This was a performance, of course: Sanders’ impassivity was selective, and she was adept at acting like it was the media’s reaction that was strange.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2019
In “Atomic Blonde,” the actress has become an avatar of icy, murderous impassivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2017
Compact and shining: the London aesthete’s ostentatious impassivity becomes the contented quiet of a younger brother peeking at a menagerie hidden behind a fence in a little mansion on Fourteenth Street.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
But before his complete impassivity her passion was helpless.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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