impassivity
Example Sentences
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What does get revived is Shula’s buried trauma, which in childhood led her to a fascination with the title bird’s cautionary cry, and in the film’s present day manifests itself through Chardy’s mesmerizing, tense impassivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
His lack of verbal expression, however, did not reveal impassivity.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2019
His instinct, perhaps biographically informed, was just to plow through, meeting insult with impassivity.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
This was a performance, of course: Sanders’ impassivity was selective, and she was adept at acting like it was the media’s reaction that was strange.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2019
I regarded him with impassivity, I believe; for he wished me to be sorrowful, to wince at some degradation; but I was aware of no sentiment of horror.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
