How To Use Impassive In A Sentence

His impassive, bearded face again cracks a smile. Times, Sunday Times
Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation. Indiana
her impassive remoteness
When he turned back to Sinclair, his face was impassive, the Eton sang-froid unassailable. THE SCAR
Years of control kept his expression calm and impassive; his gray eyes revealed nothing of what was going on inside him. The Rogue

He searched Hill's impassive face for some indication that he understood.
Her expression was cool, almost impassive.
Garang had a broad impassive face; he cultivated a ponderous dignity that often cowed his opponents.
he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight
He was still staring impassively out over the choppy, angry waters of Blackwood Lake.
Most of the time she just scanned the lines (too fast, I thought, to really be savoring the prose ) her expression impassive. GALILEE
They were engaged in a mass synchronised dance, encouraged by two impassive men sitting in a van with loudspeakers on the roof. Times, Sunday Times
The look on his face bothered me; it was an unsmiling, impassive expression with furrowed eyebrows.
Living in hotels, engaging in empty sexual encounters, silently and impassively taking in the world without responding very much to it, Anna is a mysterious and somewhat forbidding figure.
That is not the true image; no! he should have been a growthless, decayless being, impassive to time or season, a silent cloud -- the wandering Jew. Famous Reviews
She tried to imagine how Giovanni would look now, but all she could see was Marco across the table, his handsome face impassive, his expression inscrutable. That’s Amore
The defendant sat impassively in the dock while evidence was given against him.
In the research block, portraits of senior members of the Saudi royal family hang on the walls: impassive, accipitrine faces staring down upon the French scientists recruited to save the bird that is a royal obsession.
Our vantage is that of an impassive bird, flying invisibly overhead, surveying the world with stately reserve. Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
a calm, impassive, unemotional sternness about all that he said and did -- official, automatonlike -- that precluded the possibility of any jest or meaningless form. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
With a yelp of pain, he started hopping on one foot, glaring and cursing at the tree, which stood calmly and impassively before him.
Malachi tried to look impassive as he struggled to his feet and brushed himself down.
She stared down at him, first impassively, then, in a trice, her blue eyes filled with tears. STARDUST
Most have the impassive calm of volunteers in a medical trial as though nothing were at stake.
It is an impassive reversal of the expected hospital-drama roles to which the movie attaches no overt irony.
The organic roughness of his shaky tones periodically overwhelms and drowns out the impassive stillness of his collaborator.
The farmer, dressed in smart blazer and floral tie, remained impassive as the verdicts and sentences were read out.
She watched impassively while he undamped me, and I took a few staggering and damned painful steps, catching at that hellish wheel for support. Fiancée
I looked at him impassively for about five or ten seconds.
In the presence of the terrible inundation of the gallery of Airolo and the falling of aquiferous rocks, creating in the subterranean work so desperate a situation that a large number of very experienced engineers almost advised the abandonment of the works, Favre remained impassive. Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
But tough, impassive adversarial processes are necessary. Times, Sunday Times
He was ashen-faced but impassive as the verdicts were brought in.
On the third day a little Chink doctor visited me with the steward, but he didn't have a word of English, and busied himself impassively examining the sumpitan-wound in my guts - which was fairly healed, and barely ached - while remaining deaf to my demands to see Solomon. Flashman's Lady
His impassive, bearded face again cracks a smile. Times, Sunday Times
The god they present is neither the impassive god of the Oriental nor the nonhistorical god of the Deist.
The countenances have an impassive and fixed expression, as the tragic actor, in the Greek theatre, assumed mask and cothurnus, and chanted the solemn lines to a recitative. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught -- for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of? Yet Again
They were engaged in a mass synchronised dance, encouraged by two impassive men sitting in a van with loudspeakers on the roof. Times, Sunday Times
The defendant sat impassively in the dock while evidence was given against him.
A smile transformed her usually impassive face.
He was not the calm, impassive, almost marble-like man that he pretended to be.
That's a question for the two impassive figures who are walking slowly out of the heat haze. Times, Sunday Times
he submitted impassively to his arrest
While listening to the evidence, he often joined his hands together above his lap as though in prayer, but remained impassive.
When he turned back to Sinclair, his face was impassive, the Eton sang-froid unassailable. THE SCAR
Its wrought iron surface stared at him impassively, the fathomless depths of shadow that served as eyeholes piercing him like knives.
The former underwear model said nothing and was impassive as she was hustled into a police vehicle with bars on the windows.
Her expression was cool, almost impassive.
He was content to stand by as an impassive spectator.
As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face.
It took in persons who were more than persons -- personages; it passed over the impassive face of a dark ameer who looked as if he might have stepped from one of the pages of _The Arabian Nights_, and lingered on a box a little farther to one side. Half A Chance
He was impassive throughout the victims' testimonies and the verdicts.
There was here a veritable consecration, hopeful and animating, of the earth's gifts, of old dead and dark matter itself, now in some way redeemed at last, of all that we can touch or see, in the midst of a jaded world that had lost the true sense of such things, and in strong contrast to the wise emperor's renunciant and impassive attitude towards them. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
I recall he listened rather impassively, but it was not until he saw me next week in the office that I realized he was seething with anger.
The red brick school, the church wall, 21 Clydesdale horses and four foals watch impassively as progress rushes past.
So too (4) in the case of passivity — (5) The states in virtue of which things are absolutely impassive or unchangeable, or not easily changed for the worse, are called potencies; for things are broken and crushed and bent and in general destroyed not by having a potency but by not having one and by lacking something, and things are impassive with respect to such processes if they are scarcely and slightly affected by them, because of a ‘potency’ and because they ‘can’ do something and are in some positive state. Metaphysics
If you can impassively read about truffled taleggio on toast, tuna melt with paprika or a hot muffaletta while gazing at photographs of gooey cheese slathered over toasted bread, you are far stronger than me.
The accused sat impassively as the judge sentenced him to ten years in prison.
When he turned back to Sinclair, his face was impassive, the Eton sang-froid unassailable. THE SCAR
All I could do was sit back and watch as they made what sounded like haikus behind impassive masks and continually struck awkward poses.
It is about remaining impassive, keeping a clear head and plotting the next stage of the operation. Times, Sunday Times
A painted stone pathway surrounds that part of the stage, and there are even a couple of patches of grass to suggest the garden, but the centerpiece of the set, which stretches from the courtyard up onto the office dais, is what looks like a mosaic floor such as you might find in a very old church, with the impassive visage of a saint of some kind, face partially eaten away by missing tiles, staring blankly up at heaven. My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Doubt, A Parable
As they drive on, the gunner trains his scope's cross on a still breathing but disemboweled donkey lying in the rubble, and an old man in a burnoose sitting impassively at an outdoor card table, across from a player whose brains are dripping out of his bowed head. Nina Burleigh: Israel and Iran Trump Michael Moore at Venice
He forced himself to remain impassive and calm, though his eyelids looked like they were being propped open by toothpicks.
Tony went on to captain the school team, a sense of command obvious in the impassive determination of his set jaw and squared teenage shoulders.
Seflor Benavidez watches impassively, holding the bags and the wrapped cord on his lap.
Their faces are impassive; their beaks look ready to tear you to shreds.
Continuing in his stiff, impassive way, Chris lifted Dion onto the rotten chair and wrapped the ropes around him and the chair.
`A typical remark of an underdeveloped foreign culture," Samantha retorted, impassively sipping her celery juice. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
He searched Hill's impassive face for some indication that he understood.
He inwardly grinned along with Elizabeth, but both of them kept impassive countenances in front of their son.
He rose and stood impassively, gazing over her right shoulder.
She continued examining the documents with an impassive face. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
He angled the chair away from the agonised man, looking up at the high ceiling, smoking impassively. THE SCAR
He looks as if he wants to speak, but then his eyes harden as she remains impassive.
Thus a couple of wandering natives, unrecognizable under their dirty stormproof blankets and their scarcely, thinner layers of grease and grime, watched impassively, incuriously, while a box floated pendant from its parachute from sky to ground. First Lensman
She gave the old woman an impassive smile and stood up, shouldering her bag.
I was about as confused as him, but I didn't let it show, keeping an impassive expression plastered to my face.
His expression was impassive and I tried not to wilt under the searching gaze of those deep brown eyes.
He stared down at her, his expression oddly impassive, while she could feel his anger pounding against her like a club. Crimson Wind
The blond-haired, almost godlike figure, meanwhile, stood motionless, impassive and unwinded, like a great tiger poised to pounce.
The Danes look on with impassive surprise. Times, Sunday Times
Sunshine was impassive as I opened his jacket and pulled up two hoodies and a T-shirt. Times, Sunday Times
She turns round, puzzled but incurious at the noise, as impassive as livestock.
These scriptural images imply that God isn't impassive, and that his love for us is not exclusively agapeic. Warranted Christian Belief
Most of the time she just scanned the lines (too fast, I thought, to really be savoring the prose ) her expression impassive. GALILEE
A massive nude such as Seated Woman is less constrained by social identity than the businessmen, yet her stilted and impassive air suggests not a voluptuary but a studio model.
He watched silently and impassively, chewing his overdone steak, and retrieving his cigarette from the ashtray between courses.
Seen straight on, with his bald, skull-like head, wasp waist and fleshless body, he appears graceless and impassive, too frail to survive; his limbs appear too thin to bear the weight of his head and torso.
The religious right now feels emboldened by the impassiveness of secular parties and the state: no one who threatened to kill Taseer and other like-minded politicians has been arrested.
The lawyer looked impassively at him and said nothing.
Glass, his normally impassive face creased by the faintest of smiles, was shutting the doors again. THE WHITE DOVE
The apparently impassive human face in the huge anonymous war machine - but how did this pilot feel? Times, Sunday Times
Nick looked at Carolyn impassively, his face stony from lack of emotion.
Her impassive face showed no reaction at all.
No emotion showed on Dempster's impassive face, only a slight pallor in his normally ruddy complexion.
Its broad, plate-glass windows gazed out in silent, impassive tolerance upon the streams of social life that passed it of pleasant afternoons in Spring and Fall -- on sleet-swept nights of winter when 'bus and brougham brought from theatre and opera their little groups and pairs of fur-clad women and high-hatted men. A Fool There Was
The defendant remained impassive as the judge sentenced him to death.
Last and greatest, see, for one moment, the Abbe Maury; with his jesuitic eyes, his impassive brass face, 'image of all the cardinal sins.' The French Revolution
Rodgers stood impassively in his technical area as his newly promoted side took the game to City while Roberto Mancini, all clenched fists, bended knees and plaintive cries to the bench, reflected the agitated state of the home crowd. Brendan Rodgers remains confident of passing Premier League test | Andy Hunter
She stood impassively on the shoreline in a very unflattering puce bikini that was five sizes too small for her.
He remains utterly impassive when an entire audience is booing him behind his back.
It's always there in its place, calm and impassive. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the time she just scanned the lines (too fast, I thought, to really be savoring the prose ) her expression impassive. GALILEE
Chas watches the storm clouds crawl downslope toward his cetacean throne, his face impassive. THE SAVAGE GIRL
He was ashen-faced but impassive as the verdicts were brought in.
The film opens with a tableaux of a grimy industrial area where a man loiters impassively, slouching against a wall, kicking a bottle down the street, watching the wind whip up dust devils on a vacant patch of gravel.
The baby who watches impassively as his mother leaves the room and barely acknowledges her return might well turn out to be the man who has difficulty creating intimacy with a lover, who has trouble forming a long-term attachment, and who avoids the kinds of closeness so important to long-lasting love. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
As Titta watches impassively through the window of his hotel room, a suited man in the traffic island below, distracted by the sight of a passing woman, walks smack bang into a lamppost.
The defendant remained impassive as the judge sentenced him to death.
At the top of the stairs was another speaker with a pointy nose and impassive face, wearing a tailcoat and slacks.
No childhood is complete until it has watched their sloomy and impassive faces munching against the glass, and seen the gradual egress (as the encyclopædia pedantically puts it) of their tender limbs, the growing froggishness of their demeanour. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
The Arab Abul Ismail, erect and gaunt and impassive in turban and robes.
I am taking some small pride in my impassive mien when particularly hard gusts push the boat over further, or rogue waves wash through the cockpit.
This reflects the presumed scenario of sexual repression or abuse which associates pleasure with control and isolates the victim in an impassive relationship to bodily function.
She stared down at him, first impassively, then, in a trice, her blue eyes filled with tears. STARDUST
Her impassive face showed no sign of reaction to the verdict.
This was his supreme moment; yet his delicate face and sombre eyes remained impassive, showed no vestige of emotion.
Impassively, relentlessly, Curtis continued to soak the ranting man's clothing, ignoring his pleas.
But the labourer's son from Dagenham remained impassive as tens of thousands of voices shouted his name. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
This obsession has made me so eccentric that I've become rather impassive towards what others are up to.
A few of the gentlemen passengers stood on the upper deck and watched them impassively.
With his right hand on the mike, his left hand in his trousers, he remains impassive yet emits a palpable sense of loss. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes there were cows in the fields, and they champed impassively and swished their tails. The Mistaken Wife
Certainly not the blue heron, standing midleg deep in the water, obviously catching cold in a reckless disregard of wet feet and consequences; nor the mournful curlew, the dejected plover, or the low-spirited snipe, who saw fit to join him in his suicidal contemplation; nor the impassive kingfisher -- an ornithological Marius The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
His face remained impassive, so strong was his self-control.
This was his supreme moment; yet his delicate face and sombre eyes remained impassive, showed no vestige of emotion.
To visitation of the impassive air," is a sonorous verse; but it is not Dante's verse, unless _all detached_ means _on every side is open to visitation_, and _impassive air_ means The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
The cold, round meal tray is impassively in front, with two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks placed in their proper places.
The defendant remained impassive as the judge announced the guilty verdict.
But the labourer's son from Dagenham remained impassive. Times, Sunday Times
a large dull impassive man
All I could do was sit back and watch as they made what sounded like haikus behind impassive masks and continually struck awkward poses.
It was a joy to see the faces that tried not to smile with pleasure over the applause for work well done, and to catch the involuntary sideward glances of boyish eyes not yet quite disciplined to the level impassive look of war. Mexico's Army and Ours
The statements and inferences made were aggravated by a large photograph of an impassive young woman pointing a shotgun into the lens.
Ling Chu, his impassive Chinese servant, had observed those symptoms of perplexity before, but now there was something new in his master's demeanour -- a kind of curt irritation, an anxiety which in the Hunter of The Daffodil Mystery
He had an impassive expression, as if he had been expecting this all along.
As he approached the Chancellor it was noticed that his lips were trembling slightly in his otherwise impassive face. DISRAELI: A Personal History
One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack - his features still completely impassive.
As longtime observers of Bill O'Reilly, we choose to regard the man with the unjaundiced eye, impassive reason, and evenhanded solemnity of an ancient Athenian stoic. Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank
To visitation of the impassive air," is a sonorous verse; but it is not Dante's verse, unless _all detached_ means _on every side is open to visitation_, and _impassive air_ means The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
Her blonde hair whipped about her impassive visage as the wind dived past her and took cover behind the nearby hills.
Have you ever tried having a conversation with someone who remained completely impassive, cold, silent?
Seflor Benavidez watches impassively, holding the bags and the wrapped cord on his lap.
If you can impassively read about truffled taleggio on toast, tuna melt with paprika or a hot muffaletta while gazing at photographs of gooey cheese slathered over toasted bread, you are far stronger than me.
In them Arthur dwells in Cornwall, and not as in the others at Caerleon on the Usk. In them he appears with an individual character, hunting and taking a personal part in warfare, while in the more modern tales he is only an emperor all-powerful and impassive, a truly sluggard hero, around whom a pleiad of active heroes groups itself. The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.
She was small, with a slender frame - built for speed rather than power, she thought impassively.
The guard at the bank, in their scarlet and busbies, looked impassively on. At Swim, Two Boys
However, as I said, this was not my business, and besides, I learned a long time ago that arguing with a zealot is like arguing with a brick wall: it doesn't matter what you say, it's going to remain the same as it was when you started, impassive and unchanged. Science Is Nifty
Green looked impassive when the judge handed down his guilty verdict.
They sat, impassive, beside me while I watched the news from Russia.
He looked impassive, but his blue eyes had darkened in controlled anger.
One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack - his features still completely impassive.
He searched Hill's impassive face for some indication that he understood.
Using her teeth, she peeled back one of the gloves she was wearing and triumphantly withdrew a slim book of matches, which she tossed to me, eyes impassive.
I was relieved to see his face slip into its impassive mien.
Meanwhile Anna Langenbach sat, her face impassive, her lips compressed, in a small room on the ground floor. IN LOVE AND WAR
Chas watches the storm clouds crawl downslope toward his cetacean throne, his face impassive. THE SAVAGE GIRL
From atop one pile on the desk under the window, a very fat long-haired black cat gazed impassively at Agnes.
The little American is always impassive on his bike, and yesterday was no exception, despite the constant jarring of the hairline fracture.
So after that it was quite jolly, and Albert made a group with Ignatieff and Ellenborough and me, and questioned me about our acquaintance, and I made light of my captivity and escape, and said what a charming jailer Ignatieff had been, and the brute just stood impassive, with his tawny head bowed over his cup, and looking me over with that amazing half-blue, half-brown eye. Fiancée
“Commander Worf will certainly be gratified to hear that,” Taurik said, his expression neutral and his tone impassive, but it was still more than enough to elicit from Chen an unrestrained belly laugh. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony

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