impassibility

Example Sentences

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It’s no longer in use; grass and dirt cover much of its surface, and the road at its far end is overgrown to the point of impassibility.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2018

I warrant I was well pleased, for all my weariness, when we rade in at Micklebar of York; and so, I warrant, was Dame Elizabeth, for all her impassibility.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

To dart a lance at mythomania is his delight, while preserving the impassibility of a Parnassian.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

The keen eye of the ci-devant law clerk was too skilled in reading the human countenance, to be deceived by an effort at impassibility.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

He undermined the doctrine of impassibility by the very measures he took to secure it.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)