impassivity
IPA: ɪmpˈæsˈɪvɪti
noun
- The state of being impassive.
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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.
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