unimpressionable

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Her world is the charitable trust in south London she founded in her son Stephen's name, and when we meet there she conveys an immediate air of unimpressionable, quiet self‑possession.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2012

Only one, when Bing Crosby mistakes him for a fan and casually autographs the tortilla that he is holding, does the unimpressionable Cantinflas get a line that is unforgettable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reggie turned out to be unattractive, unimpressionable; when he announced that he was planning to take Holy Orders the sisters wrote him off as a loss.

From Time Magazine Archive

But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Being a brute, leniency invariably fails, but unimpressionable to these methods as his moral and humane instincts are, his skin remains sensitive, and through it his instincts may be appealed to and quickened.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by Kayll, James Leslie Allan