impassivity

Example Sentences

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If Chauvin maintains the same impassivity he demonstrated throughout the trial, Judge Cahill might decide to add a few years to whatever sentence he has carefully calculated in advance.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2021

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

Carpenter, by contrast, builds her character from behind a wall of impassivity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2019

Other splendid actors, including Jennifer Lawrence and Rose Byrne, are constrained to rather literal and stiff deliveries of needed plot details; Fassbender is limited to a seemingly disengaged cartoonish impassivity.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2016

At the mention of Coram van Texel, Hannah glanced at Lord Nugent, who returned her look with bland impassivity.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman