impassiveness

Yet what makes the character work is the poignant impassiveness that conveys just how brutally life has hollowed him out.

I told him exactly what had happened, and he listened with seeming impassiveness; but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to the open wound in his breast.

Now they languish, sun seeping into feldspars and micas, into the quartzes until they quiver with pure excitation—in heat and cold, wind and stillness, through minutes and millennia— and still radiate impassiveness.

His expression is somewhere between remorse and impassiveness.

Onstage, the Ramonas are closer in tenor to the proto-punk girl band the Runaways – if Joey Ramone were around to see himself being “inhabited” by Lisa “Cloey” Breyer, he might be impressed that she has created a persona that somehow blends his stark impassiveness and her own fizzing energy.