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

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

His instinct, perhaps biographically informed, was just to plow through, meeting insult with impassivity.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 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

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