Deliberately impassive in manner.
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Examples for "impassive"
Examples for "impassive"
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Alter course to west by south. He glanced at Bolitho's impassive features.
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Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
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The Englishmen kept staring in the same impassive fashion with fixed glances.
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But she spoke at length in the same impassive voice as before:
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I glanced at the strange woman; she sat as impassive as ever.
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Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
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Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
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I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.
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That deadpan quality was much in evidence as he explained this move.
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I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
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M. Didot's face was as unexpressive and as ambiguous as an oracle.
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Giordano's original melody is for the greater part commonplace and unexpressive.
3
Fletcher Kale's gray eyes remained flat and unexpressive, but he turned quite pale.
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Did I not know what a lovely soul hid behind that unexpressive countenance?
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Not bad faces on the whole, but heavy and unexpressive.
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I didn't know which one because they were all so poker-faced.
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Mohammad asks the clutch of poker-faced farmers standing round and stroking their beards.
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He waited there, poker-faced, until Payne took a seat as well.
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He just nodded, poker-faced, and kept his eyes on the road.
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That drew wry smiles out of Carmen and Nancy, though Jenny remained poker-faced.
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His rabbity features stayed expressionless; he'd seen his share of bodies before.
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The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
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He spoke the words deliberately; his face remained absolutely still and expressionless.
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Hearing my approach, they exchanged slicing sideways glances before facing me, expressionless.
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Ken Day sat, expressionless, in the front row of the public benches.
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Shahzad, 30, remained expressionless and silent as the judge read the charges.
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Then again the low even voice replied out of the expressionless face.
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The face of the former was cold, his eyes steady and expressionless.
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Nari sat in the prow, her hands folded, her face quite expressionless.
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West handed it over with a glance at the rather expressionless face.
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Speshul, repeating it over and over again in a hoarse, expressionless monotone.
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The count listened to these arguments with downcast eyes and expressionless face.
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But the eyes flashed for only a moment and then were expressionless.
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His face grew cold and expressionless as he waited for the answer.
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An illuminated clock-face-butblank, featureless, expressionless, useless; in a word, without hands.
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He glanced at Dawson, whose face was set in an expressionless mask.
