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

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

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