impassivity

Example Sentences

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What does get revived is Shula’s buried trauma, which in childhood led her to a fascination with the title bird’s cautionary cry, and in the film’s present day manifests itself through Chardy’s mesmerizing, tense impassivity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

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

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

The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou