impassivity

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.

Timo sizes up his injuries with the impassivity of an insurance adjuster and abandons him to freeze.

Poker face may have helped lend legitimacy to legions of men who ran for office before her, but despite 235 years of presidential stoicism across 46 leaders, Harris does not draw her power from impassivity.

And while the agonizing stillness of Brünnhilde and especially Wotan in their long final scene is effective in theory, Rose and Jones do not quite sell his endless impassivity, and the tension sometimes slackens.

Proud, hard, alone, with a cord of violence quaking below his impassivity, he lives in a small bleak house and lives a small bleak life.