impassive

Example Sentences

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He was, according to BBC courts producer Neil Henderson, "impassive" during the evidence stages in this month's trial.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

Someone on the panel of three impassive strangers stopped me every time I made a mistake and asked me to start again.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

So there’s a theory percolating online that if you adopt the qualities of a stone, becoming impassive and bland, then you will repel the argumentative, antagonistic people in your life who are itching for conflict.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Menzies, who plays him minus the historical Stanton’s impressive whiskers, the better to appear a 21st-century screen hero, catches his well-documented resolve, seriousness, impatience and impassive imperiousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

In a Washington courtroom a week later, G. Gordon Liddy stood with his arms folded, his face impassive, as the clerk read the jury’s verdict: guilty on eight counts related to the Watergate break-in.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin