Example Sentences

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If Chauvin maintains the same impassivity he demonstrated throughout the trial, Judge Cahill might decide to add a few years to whatever sentence he has carefully calculated in advance.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2021

His instinct, perhaps biographically informed, was just to plow through, meeting insult with impassivity.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

This was a performance, of course: Sanders’ impassivity was selective, and she was adept at acting like it was the media’s reaction that was strange.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2019

In “Atomic Blonde,” the actress has become an avatar of icy, murderous impassivity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2017

Lauren would do that to her sometimes when they were fighting, her impassivity sending Maya through the roof.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway