Sean saw her mask her face with a pale impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
A tongue of anger licked at his customary impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
Then it was that the impassivity of Sir Ralph vanished. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
They had a teacher's preference for facial impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The tall, stately women watched with utter impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference
Only Sir Dirkin maintained a face of wooden impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
He felt a kind of solid impassivity he had not known before. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
Displeasure flashed across her face, replaced by impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Her eyes, dark and searching, sought to pierce his impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]
Yet sympathy is modulated throughout by a hard-won impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of our Time] Reference
Reporters like to claim utter impassivity toward their subjects. From Wordnik.com. [2006 Lexus GS430] Reference
My face must have betrayed more than conventional impassivity, for. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
When he returned he had recovered something of his usual impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
His expression was quite impenetrable -- mask-like in its impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
His impassivity was gone; there was something else there in its place. From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
Curiously, she looked upon the impending crisis with the impassivity of. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
His eyes were mild, intelligent, his expression one of gentle impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker Of Mandarin]
His face, constrained to impassivity by the binding strap, infuriated Baby. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
Behind his mask of preternaturally alert impassivity, Richard too, was rapt. From Wordnik.com. [Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play] Reference
She was wildly emotional, but she schooled her face to enigmatic impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Love Story] Reference
But when the still figure on the roof saw me, the impassivity of it vanished. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
At this exposure of his plot to escape, Paul was startled out of impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
Without answering, he pulled the door open, schooling his face into impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [My Soul to Keep] Reference
Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Lecture] Reference
For the first time, the well-bred impassivity of his face irked and infuriated her. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
With the anger rising inside him Mundy waits with seeming impassivity for the next salvo. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Miles felt his eyebrows rise a little at this but steeled his expression into impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Valley] Reference
Mr. Gilbert with true masculine impassivity disregarded the awe he had excited in his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
I looked into my only childs eyesand he returned my gaze with the impassivity of a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
"There is a history of impassivity, 'by which man became an animal open to the world,' etc...". From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
There was a split-second of astonishment before the woman clamped down her mask of impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
I tried to make myself feel something, anything other than the shame I felt for my impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Confederacy of Silence] Reference
The house itself, soundless and gray in the fast brightening space, mocked him with impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Sassacus made no resistance, but submitted with a stoical impassivity as to an irresistible fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Then she calmly refolded the letter and placed it in its envelope with the impassivity of a young sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
The bereft, grief-stricken expression on his face had disappeared, and in its place was utter impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
In the finely-cut face before him, with its Oriental modelling and impassivity, he read brains, refinement and endurance. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
There was a pantherlike quickness in the pounce that was somehow daunting from an individual of this man's size and impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Both he and Vassie felt guiltily on the subject, not realising that reaction from strain was at the bottom of their seeming impassivity. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
At the outset a certain impassivity on the part of this wild mountaineer excited their astonishment, then, quickly, their dissatisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
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