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 know I haven't seen him around lately, crushing pillows and making us all look vulgar in contrast to his calm and almost insulting impassibility.

From One of My Sons by Green, Anna Katharine

The grandee retained his cigar in his left hand, and, with an impassibility which savored of the theatrical, he gave long puffs at it.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

"To see what you prefer to all you could have!" he said; but he said it impersonally, bowing his thanks, resolved to school himself to impassibility and patience.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

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)