impassivity
Example Sentences
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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
But the duke, who has already suffered so much, can only listen with the solemn impassivity of someone who has outlived his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
