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Meanings of impassive in inglés
Deliberately impassive in manner.
Related terms
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.
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Examples for "expressionless"
Examples for "expressionless"
1
His rabbity features stayed expressionless; he'd seen his share of bodies before.
2
The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
3
He spoke the words deliberately; his face remained absolutely still and expressionless.
4
Hearing my approach, they exchanged slicing sideways glances before facing me, expressionless.
5
Ken Day sat, expressionless, in the front row of the public benches.
1
Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
2
Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
3
I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.
4
That deadpan quality was much in evidence as he explained this move.
5
I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
1
M. Didot's face was as unexpressive and as ambiguous as an oracle.
2
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.
4
Did I not know what a lovely soul hid behind that unexpressive countenance?
5
Not bad faces on the whole, but heavy and unexpressive.
1
I didn't know which one because they were all so poker-faced.
2
Mohammad asks the clutch of poker-faced farmers standing round and stroking their beards.
3
He waited there, poker-faced, until Payne took a seat as well.
4
He just nodded, poker-faced, and kept his eyes on the road.
5
That drew wry smiles out of Carmen and Nancy, though Jenny remained poker-faced.
Usage of impassive in inglés
1
Alter course to west by south. He glanced at Bolitho's impassive features.
2
Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
3
The Englishmen kept staring in the same impassive fashion with fixed glances.
4
But she spoke at length in the same impassive voice as before:
5
I glanced at the strange woman; she sat as impassive as ever.
6
She is no longer the impassive Silence; she has found her fire.
7
He could not remain impassive in the presence of this warm admiration.
8
The only human forms she saw were scarecrows, their rudimentary features impassive.
9
The magistrate, in the meantime, went on with the same impassive air,-
10
Borrowdean held the card in his hand, scrutinizing it with impassive face.
11
The prisoners sat impassive, evidently not understanding the meaning of the answers.
12
The recital was pitiful; but Hugh Roughsedge sat impassive, making no comments.
13
The impassive face of Jules Victor met his gaze at the door.
14
A pallid haze breathes wanly on the surface of the impassive sky.
15
The eyes are wide open, but the look is fixed and impassive.
16
It is my dearest ambition to be as impassive as the Sphinx.
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Impassive across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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