unimpressible

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I was not the first to offer “Frozen dad” feedback: Lee described the gruff, unimpressible, fortysomething men who would come bounding up, “breathlessly, saying things like, ‘Anna loves too much.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2019

In France, without mincing words, he managed not only to get along with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, a centrist, and François Mitterrand, a Socialist; he also captivated normally unimpressible Parisians.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2015

Clara was honest and quiet; but heavy, mindless, and unimpressible: not one whit to my taste.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

White at high-water mark, and thence deepening to a silvery gray as the water has evaporated less, a slab of Egyptian granite in the obelisk of St. Peter's not more polished and unimpressible.

From Initial Studies in American Letters by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Hence, many of these volumes, heavy and unimpressible as they look, yet are stamped strongly with the marks of the individuality, or of the peculiar intellectual cast, of living men.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill