26 examples of impassivity in sentences

They stood stock still, watching us with a dreadful impassivity which was more frightening to me than violence.

Do you hear me?" Kemp's impassivity was in marked contrast to the girl's hysterical excitement.

Very early the Indian learns to possess his countenance in impassivity, to cover his head with his blanket.

Without doubt, my impassivity pulled her together.

He had thrown aside the gambler's mask of impassivity.

Mr. Tutt, assuming an equal impassivity, pondered upon the matter for about an inch of stogy and then informed the committee that the terms were eminently satisfactory.

With a sudden return to his customary wooden impassivity, he shook hands with us, bowed stiffly, and took himself off towards the curator's office.

The glow ebbing from his face, his lips tightening, the thick lids drooping low over his eyes, he sat in apparent abstraction, aping the impassivity of the graven idols that graced his study.

But mere impassivity had replaced it.

Its Indian impassivity was gone.

No one who has wrangled with a minor Turkish official, and experienced the impassive resistance he is able to interpose to anything he doesn't want to do, will underestimate what this quality might become, translated into the rugged physique and impassivity of the common soldier.

"This is a hard experience, Hornby," said Thorndyke, when we three were, for a few moments, left apart from the others; and as he spoke the warmth of a really sympathetic nature broke through his habitual impassivity.

He was given no opportunity for further speech, however, for at the sound of the closing door Galen Albret's impassivity had fallen from him.

In short, they seemed to him to have all the impassivity of the Christian atmosphere, with none of its hidden fire.

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.

Out of bloodshot, terrible eyes he was looking at that mute figure on the floor; looking at it immovably, indescribably, with an impassivity that was horrible.

Just a moment longer the look held, a moment wherein the other man felt his tongue grow dumb; then with the old impassivity, the old isolation, the black eyes shifted until they rested on the face of the girl.

"Monsieur de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop of Autun, who, I understand, is in danger of losing his place in the affections of Madame on account of Monsieur Morris," returned the Duchess, hurriedly, and glancing mischievously, though keenly, at Mr. Morris's face, which, however, preserved its expression of impassivity.

Personally, I can only see the respectable M. Héger as a man whose very essence was a certain impassivity and phlegm under the appearance of a temperament.

As he stood there facing the western afterglow, the profound impassivity of his expressiona look that seemed to scorn all this infidel civilization of an upstart racegrew deeper.

Quite at once his dark eyes veiled themselves with their habitual impassivity.

But now behold what mine imams can do!" The riflemen, disgruntled but still, Arab-like, holding their impassivity, returned to their horses and mounted again.

The interview was then closed; Emperor and Empress both assumed a Buddha-like impassivity of expression and allowed the I.G. to back just as if they were entirely oblivious of his presence.

His very impassivity served to make opposition impossible.

Her very impassivity goaded him.

26 examples of  impassivity  in sentences