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

But she immediately recovered her impassibility of features—that wonderful calmness and innocent expression which afterwards was so severely put to the proof without 155 being shaken—and she asked, with apparent unconcern:

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

And the old lawyer had looked up with grim impassibility.

From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles

"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

Lord James, smitten in his dearest hopes, had resumed the cold impassibility which I now saw formed the foundation of his character.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various