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

This is a naïve and quite significant confession of the difficulty he experienced in maintaining his puritanical restraint and impassibility at that time.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

A Chabi takes it up, and in return, presents to the pilgrim a khata in the name of the Living Buddha, whose business throughout is to preserve the impassibility and dignity befitting his assumed divinity.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

My impassibility rather disconcerted him, as evidently he expected me to consider him very funny, and laugh at his droll antics.

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.

"Listen, and say whether it is not so or not," said the Deemster, with a manner of rigid impassibility.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir