How to Use impassive in a Sentence

impassive

adjective
Definition of impassivenext
Synonyms for impassivenext
  • Her face is impassive, with the slightest hint of a smirk.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2022
  • And his face, though long and carved, is anything but impassive.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Through all of the chaos, Melania’s impassive stillness has led folks on both sides of the aisle to see her as a beacon of hope.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • But Wolkoff sheds more light on the extent and depth of the enmity behind those impassive faces.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Shaq by then was anchored to the bench with five fouls, his face utterly impassive.
    — Scott Raab, Esquire, 14 May 2010
  • The faces in the crowd appear impassive despite the fact that God’s living mouthpiece will soon address them.
    — Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2022
  • His voice was deep if slightly harried, and his face impassive.
    — The Economist, 11 Oct. 2019
  • For two hours, von Neumann listened to the scientists, his head in his hands, his face impassive.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The only known photograph of him from this time shows a man with dark hair, light-colored eyes, a mouth turned down at the corners and a broad, impassive face.
    — Adam Hochschild, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The coverage is being anchored from a raft on the Seine by two impassive, middle-aged Brits.
    — Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
  • But that fish- eye lens just stared back at her, impassive, unblinking.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 11 June 2019
  • Duckenfield sat, impassive, in front of the dock with his hands clasped and then drank from a glass of water as the foreman of the jury delivered the verdict.
    — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2019
  • In the resultant selfie, my delighted face and his impassive one seem to rise above a massive hand in the foreground.
    — Joshua David Stein, GQ, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Najib was impassive when the verdict was read out and his wife and two children immediately went to his side in the court.
    — Philip J. Heijmans, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • What had been built to seem so solid was fragile in the face of time because time is impassive, more animal than human.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 23 May 2016
  • Rapp looked impassive as Judge Lewis Kaplan formally dismissed the case, Spacey dropped his head briefly.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Thunberg, though hardly impassive, has made a point of focusing on the science and being prepared with the facts.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • High school sophomore Alexis Law is an impassive Maretha, Berniece’s placid 11-year-old daughter.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2017
  • But their voices were flat, their faces largely impassive.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
  • He is made out to be a tennis ace (his practice swings are mechanical, his face impassive).
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
  • In practice, though, Staunton’s Elizabeth is impassive to the point of opacity.
    — Time, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The whole empire of signs is reduced to a greater-than symbol, the mouth of an impassive alligator eating someone’s lunch.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Her voice, as impassive as her face, conveys the numb disbelief of the brokenhearted.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The defendant, wearing a maroon sweater with dark brown elbow patches, was impassive as the verdict was read.
    — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • The contraption stared back, impassive as a Buckingham Palace guard.
    — Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2015
  • Vuillard’s mother looks impassive and menacing next to her daughter, who is in a wedding dress.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Other delegates took notes, or stared straight ahead, looking attentive, stern, impassive, dazed — or just tired, as Xi spoke on, and on.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And his guests, who are often known for their steely, impassive façades, will break into an appreciative, almost goofy laugh.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Farrell is impassive as the travesties mount, behaving like a robot that relies on algorithms to process and feign emotion.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But the character is, by design, relatively impassive, stoic, and shy of expression, albeit bursting with thought and emotion.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

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