impassivity

Example Sentences

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If Chauvin maintains the same impassivity he demonstrated throughout the trial, Judge Cahill might decide to add a few years to whatever sentence he has carefully calculated in advance.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2021

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

His fiancée, seated at the Eleanor of Aquitaine place setting, shook her head with queenly impassivity.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2018

In “Atomic Blonde,” the actress has become an avatar of icy, murderous impassivity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2017

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