perturbable

Example Sentences

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It rarely failed to make me – or even my partner, far less perturbable despite being the one who was actually pregnant – more stressed.

From The Guardian

Gradually from the glances of those tranquil dames, some of whom for more than two centuries had gazed seaward through the panes of those high narrow windows mistily iridescent from a thousand salt gales, Dorothy caught an attitude toward life; from their no longer perturbable expressions, from their silent testimony to the insignificance of everything in the backward of time, she acquired confidence in herself.

From Project Gutenberg

Confronted by Galbraith, the usually imperturbable Dean Rusk has proved quite perturbable, and when the ambassador argued for a change in U.S. policy toward China, the Secretary shot back: "Your views, so far as they have any merit, have already been fully considered and rejected."

From Time Magazine Archive

To depart without the ceremony of saying good-bye takes its name from the most elaborately civil of people—French leave; while the least perturbable of nations has been made to contribute an epithet, Dutch, to the courage derived from the whiskey-bottle.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Baldwin is the least perturbable of Ministers.

From Project Gutenberg