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Yet what makes the character work is the poignant impassiveness that conveys just how brutally life has hollowed him out.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

His expression is somewhere between remorse and impassiveness.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

By this point, I admit, I was feeling the first twinges of annoyance with his impassiveness and growing less inclined to make allowances for it due to the fact of his being dead.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2013

RP2 Chute looked on, his impassiveness masking his disdain for talk of angels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 4, 2010

The Comte de Paris displayed the carelessness of his age and the precocious impassiveness of princes.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de