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.”

  Dawn of All

• “Knightley grows increasingly assured throughout the film, her emotionally volatile Sabina a foil for the doctors' poker-faced impassivity.”

  The Huffington Post: Erica Abeel: In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Truth in Imagined Things

• “Thoughtful impassivity is an unpopular pose, often cited by supporters as evidence the boss is "clueless".”

  The Guardian: Roy Hodgson's scream for help was a Match of the Day masterpiece | Martin Kelner

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hopkins Can't Right 'Rite'

• “At least as famous is the full-face, oval volto , eerily sexy in its smoothness and impassivity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Masked Charms of Venice's Carnival

• “Behind his mask of preternaturally alert impassivity, Richard too, was rapt.”

  The Huffington Post: Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play

• “That it lost yesterday is a tribute not only to youth-voter impassivity but to the power of ignorance and coercion.”

  The Huffington Post: Norm Stamper: Ignorance and Intimidation = Delay Not Defeat in March Toward Pot Legalization

• “Moreover, in some of his better films their success comes at least as much from the compensatory skills of the director (Orson Welles, Anthony Mann, Sam Peckinpah) or from a fortuitous match between role and Heston's impassivity as an actor (the various spectacles with which he is most closely identified).”

  Film

• “She was wildly emotional, but she schooled her face to enigmatic impassivity.”

  Fictionaut: Love Story

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