impassivity

IPA: ɪmpˈæsˈɪvɪti

Examples of "impassivity" in Sentences

Thoughtful impassivity is an unpopular pose, often cited by supporters as evidence the boss is "clueless".
Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.
Arthur isn't one for showing his feelings — thus the 'mechanic' moniker — so it makes sense that the granite-faced Mr. Bronson has given way to another star schooled in the art of impassivity.
He sat there watching through the windows in a kind of impassivity, as much as he could see of the method by which the racing-boat was attached by long, rigid rods to the steady floating raft that had risen from beneath.
Ruth Harris's cultural history of the Dreyfus affair in turn-of-the-20th-century France provided insight not just into the shifting factions and carnival aspect of a public controversy, but also into how Alfred Dreyfus's "usual perplexing impassivity," as Ms. Harris put it, affected events.