impassivity

Example Sentences

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And while the agonizing stillness of Brünnhilde and especially Wotan in their long final scene is effective in theory, Rose and Jones do not quite sell his endless impassivity, and the tension sometimes slackens.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

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

His fiancée, seated at the Eleanor of Aquitaine place setting, shook her head with queenly impassivity.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2018

Brought up in the wide-open, freewheeling society of Earth, I would never master the protocol, or the impassivity, so valued by Karhiders.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin