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

But the duke, who has already suffered so much, can only listen with the solemn impassivity of someone who has outlived his life.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

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

I regarded him with impassivity, I believe; for he wished me to be sorrowful, to wince at some degradation; but I was aware of no sentiment of horror.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson