impassiveness
Example Sentences
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Yet what makes the character work is the poignant impassiveness that conveys just how brutally life has hollowed him out.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022
His expression is somewhere between remorse and impassiveness.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
By this point, I admit, I was feeling the first twinges of annoyance with his impassiveness and growing less inclined to make allowances for it due to the fact of his being dead.
From Salon • Mar. 9, 2013
RP2 Chute looked on, his impassiveness masking his disdain for talk of angels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 4, 2010
Some of the impassiveness in Curzad's expression slipped a little and his fingers whitened on the goblet's stem.
From The Return of Tharn by Browne, Howard
