I spotted a repressed smile behind his usual impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Patrizia Chen: Eating 'City Lamb' in China] Reference
Then I bowed with what outward impassiveness I could summon. From Wordnik.com. [Uncharted Stars]
But Lawrence Teck quickly recovered an external impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Qin's face lost a bit of its impassiveness as he cocked his head toward Matt. From Wordnik.com. [Heart Of The Tiger]
RP2 Chute looked on, his impassiveness masking his disdain for talk of angels. From Wordnik.com. [A Chaplain and an Atheist Go to War] Reference
I would have preferred her having been angry, to that calm, irritating impassiveness she displayed. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
He showed it, too, in a certain stoical impassiveness which might have been taken for indifference. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
But the Jap's very impassiveness checked him and with an immense effort he regained command of himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
Spock's face fought to maintain the Vulcan mask of impassiveness, but the lines of his face stood out in ridges. From Wordnik.com. [The Fate of the Phoenix]
The young man burst out laughing, instead of reprimanding Tobias, who maintained his sulky impassiveness of face. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
His expression was strange, then, for a deep and somehow terrible satisfaction lay below an outward impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Nowhere]
Back of the impassiveness he read guilt, read it in the restless shifting of the eyes and in the voice dead to hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
All its faculties are concentrated on impassiveness, and thus does Nature guard its weakest and most helpless offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Of vivacity there is not a spark in her nature; a heavy-footed impassiveness weighs upon all her efforts to be sprightly. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anderson] Reference
His lips twitched once, and before he could smooth his features into another mask of impassiveness, the Queen pointed at him. From Wordnik.com. [Bedlam Boyz]
Conrad twitched an eyebrow at me and I arranged my face into as near impassiveness as one can get while falling about inside. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
He remained where he was as if he had never "heard" that question, surveying the room below with all the impassiveness he could summon. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
She, flushed and bright-eyed, leaned forward with an appealing air, opposing the resistless vigor of youth to the impassiveness of age. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
His impassiveness was deranged by a look of chagrin, as he blurted out harshly: "I regret that the money also has flown away, or I should insist ----". From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
It was, however, interesting to watch the people, and to note their enthusiasm, with no impassiveness now, as well as the peculiar mixture of costumes. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
It was no longer a face of almost brutish impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
Martin surveyed them with outward impassiveness and inward contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Bar-20 Days] Reference
And he was aware of this impassiveness concealing a lucid astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
Ta Bega standing with folded arms, somehow terrible in his somber impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow Trail] Reference
Gabriel halted and turned, looking at his late clerk with absolute impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Chestermarke Instinct] Reference
Impatient he became, at times, with her impassiveness, and fretted by her coldness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand but Not the Heart] Reference
"There's something in that," said he, lapsed into his usual seeming of impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Price She Paid] Reference
I would rather discover ugly and active defects in you than that beautiful impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice of Life] Reference
His start of surprise, coming close upon his iron-clad impassiveness, was like a pantomimic change. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
Josephine sat still, looking with odd impassiveness into the fire; then she remarked in the same way. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
Her allusion to Mrs. Lawrence Finchley rapped him smartly, and she admired his impassiveness under the stroke. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
He knew nothing but to obey orders, and obeyed them under all circumstances promptly, but with stony impassiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 3] Reference
Out of the bitterness of her heart she spoke, but she was roused out of her assumed impassiveness by the effect produced. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
Blake met her supercilious bearing toward him with an impassiveness that was intended to mask his contemptuous resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Primitive] Reference
How one learns to appreciate the British impassiveness which helps one, in such conditions, to spend a perfectly happy day with. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
Studying that delicate face, she felt, behind its pallid impassiveness, behind the refusal to return, a reason she could not comprehend. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Ellen caught that in the dark, intent, piercing eyes, in the wide, level, thoughtful brows, in the stern impassiveness of his smooth face. From Wordnik.com. [To the Last Man] Reference
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