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
