Sentences with impassive
im·pas·sive
I i - He searched Hill's impassive face for some indication that he understood.
- Joel says, as impassive as Buster Keaton.
- Most of the time, he sat impassive, occasionally scratching his cheek.
- Hopper, of Hope Island, Queensland, remained impassive, with his hands clasped, as the jury foreman read the verdict.
- It's all done in a matter of seconds, executed with impassive efficiency.
- Ramage, 45, remained largely impassive before a packed court as Justice Osborn sentenced him to a minimum eight years' jail.
- Impassive means not having or showing any feeling or emotion, although it does not necessarily connote an incapability of being affected [his impassive face did not betray his anguish]; apathetic stresses an indifference or listlessness from which one cannot easily be stirred to feeling [an apathetic electorate]; Stoic implies an austere indifference to pleasure or pain and specifically suggests the ability to endure suffering without flinching [he received the bad news with stoic calm]; stolid suggests dullness, obtuseness, or stupidity in one who is not easily moved or excited; , phlegmatic is applied to one who by temperament is not easily disconcerted or aroused