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impassive
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  • I looked at Monica, who was staring out the window, her face impassive as always.   (source)
    impassive = having or revealing little emotion
  • BRADY is left alone on stage with DRUMMOND, who still watches him impassively.   (source)
    impassively = in a manner showing little emotion
  • His expression was folded, impassive.†   (source)
  • The faces of the dancers were set, impassive; they eyed each other glitteringly, waiting for a chance to bite.†   (source)
  • But empty, all of them, and all extracting their penalty, impassive, blithe, unconcerned.†   (source)
  • Da Shi remained impassive.†   (source)
  • [Rick stands impassively as guards and gendarmes drag Ugarte off]†   (source)
  • An elderly couple sitting opposite looked at them curiously, but he forced himself to meet their gaze impassively.†   (source)
  • Ron stared at Hermione, but her face was quite impassive.†   (source)
  • Will, his face impassive, was staring straight ahead of him at some unseen point.†   (source)
  • He flinched when the spray struck his face, then stood impassively, eyes closed, as black water swirled at his feet.†   (source)
  • Then he looked at Muldoon, standing there, large and impassive.†   (source)
  • Rose sat calmly, almost impassive.†   (source)
  • The guards at the door just watched, their faces impassive.†   (source)
  • The impassive father seemed to me to be the most disagreeably affected by Owen's unnatural size; the man's doughy countenance wavered between brute stupidity and contempt.†   (source)
  • She tries her best to look impassive.†   (source)
  • She glanced through the window, down to the street corner where the soldiers stood, their faces impassive beneath the metal helmets.†   (source)
  • They were impassive whenever she wavered, and firmly recalled her to her earliest statements.†   (source)
  • Cal stands to his father's right, his face still and impassive.†   (source)
  • She could never be sure what thoughts were hidden behind that impassive face, but she had learned to recognize the sudden stiffening of his jaw muscles that meant she had said something shocking.†   (source)
  • The white beast and her spotted friend have successfully ambled to the safety of the opposite shoulder, still impassive.†   (source)
  • The red eyes watched him impassively.†   (source)
  • The woman remains impassive, but I catch the flicker of surprise on the man's face.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive, expectant.†   (source)
  • I kept my face impassive, but I couldn't keep myself from wondering where these questions were leading.†   (source)
  • The old man continued to watch him impassively.†   (source)
  • Firemen leaned off the ladder trucks, looking up towards the Temple of Dendur; cops stood tensely shoulder to shoulder, impassive in the rain.†   (source)
  • I close my eyes quickly, overwhelmed by the thought of my mother, writhing, and a dozen scientists in lab coats watching, scribbling impassively on notepads.†   (source)
  • The dragon watched impassively, listening and learning.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive, eyes focused on me, intent on the job ahead of him.†   (source)
  • "He jumped from great heights," Edward told me, his voice impassive.†   (source)
  • At the door to the courtyard the matron turned, erect and impassive, back along the corridor.†   (source)
  • He saw that beneath her assumed impassivity she was deeply confused.†   (source)
  • I stood with my arms folded, trying to create a picture of an impassive man, someone in line at a hardware store waiting for the girl at the register to ring up his heavy-duty rope.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger looked impassively at Mo's face.†   (source)
  • He sat on sari flowers and from that unassailable position of strength surveyed the scene impassively.†   (source)
  • Simon had listened to her lengthy explanation with a nearly impassive expression, only wincing a little when she got to the part about the Ravener demon.†   (source)
  • They had large, impassive faces and pale blue eyes.†   (source)
  • Gaskill remained impassive, unimpressed.†   (source)
  • Chronicler stood impassively throughout the introduction, watching Bast as if he were a snake.†   (source)
  • She looked up at me impassively, then back down.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza listened to him, impassive, nodding his agreement with a slight motion of his head, not daring to say anything for fear his voice would betray him.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor narrowed his eyes slightly as he assessed Wells's impassive face.†   (source)
  • Hawat's leathery old face remained impassive, betraying none of the loathing he felt.†   (source)
  • The jurors sat with studiously impassive faces as they strained to make sense of matters.†   (source)
  • The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity.†   (source)
  • When she went back to his office, he was sitting impassively behind his desk, studying some papers.†   (source)
  • I boosted myself onto the side of the table, trying to look impassive.†   (source)
  • Then, as though interested in their reaction, he looked down upon the prisoners, who stood before him handcuffed to guards; they stared back impassively until he resumed and read the seven counts that followed: three more convictions for Hickock, and four for Smith.†   (source)
  • He stared up at the camera in the corner of the cell, which blinked at him impassively.†   (source)
  • Their faces were impassive.†   (source)
  • His chiseled face is impassive, his dark hair shiny with pomade.†   (source)
  • The walls of Blackcliff rise around us like impassive sentinels.†   (source)
  • The drug dealer listened impassively through his lecture but didn't retaliate or argue with his strange-seeming neighbor.†   (source)
  • Still, Caroline watched the faces in front of her turn impassive, masked.†   (source)
  • I kept my face impassive.†   (source)
  • Stoddard met these recklessly inconsiderate grimacings with an impassive stare, then looked away.†   (source)
  • Maloney did all the talking while Wong looked at me impassively.†   (source)
  • He has the demeanor of a psychoanalyst, watchful and impassive, and his ability to transform his face so easily and quickly was astonishing.†   (source)
  • He remained impassive, but the magus told me that in the future I could ignore conversation that was not directed toward me and I should keep my mouth closed unless specifically addressed.†   (source)
  • The black man was impassive.†   (source)
  • But the craggy faces of the men of Khane looked as stolid as the cliffs outside the window, looming impassively in the setting sunlight.†   (source)
  • But his face was impassive.†   (source)
  • Obasan is moving about deaf and impassive, unavailable for questioning or their ministrations.†   (source)
  • AS HE SAT SHACKLED TO THE SEAT of the police van on the way back from Napa, Nicholas Jenks watched the impassive eyes of the patrolman across from him.†   (source)
  • I wished him cold, impassive, gone.†   (source)
  • Marcos thought no woman in her right mind could remain impassive before a barrel-organ serenade.†   (source)
  • Yossarian watched him impassively.†   (source)
  • Turner's junior partner, a hulking redhead in a white marshall's uniform, stands by impassively.†   (source)
  • I glance a couple of times at Luke's face, but he's staring impassively ahead.†   (source)
  • An older Armenian—his father perhaps—was impassive, staring straight ahead.†   (source)
  • She stared at him, her face impassive, as if reacting to his presence were somehow beneath her.†   (source)
  • Rav Gershenson was silent for a long moment, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • Impassive, emotionless.†   (source)
  • After an impassive departing embrace, I rode off.†   (source)
  • She took two dishrags and carried the pot impassively through the living room, down the front steps and across the yard, then poured the steaming casserole into the gutter.†   (source)
  • It gazed at him impassively as Max read ORION, SYRIAN SHEDU on its nametag.†   (source)
  • The president watches, his face impassive, that pencil making just the slightest clicking noise on his perfect white teeth.†   (source)
  • The owner turned impassively to fill her order; there was, in his stolid indifference, the kind of mercifulness that asks no questions.†   (source)
  • His impassive black eyes had a slightly minted cast, but they registered more boredom than malevolence.†   (source)
  • I do my best to remain impassive.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani was impassive.†   (source)
  • Denny gave her an impassive stare.†   (source)
  • Summerset spoke carefully, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • The holy man nodded slowly, impassively, repeatedly, as he moved forward with graceful steps appropriate to a religious procession.†   (source)
  • They in turn had sat impassive as the scoreboard.†   (source)
  • He kept his face impassive and continued to listen.†   (source)
  • Impassively Floss smoked and waited for her to continue.†   (source)
  • She turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell, impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive as always when he issued the usual protest—"It's the truth, so help me God"—but I could see with absolute clarity that underneath the impassive mask he was smiling.†   (source)
  • His voice was reedy and intense, his ape's face impassive, and again the thief, Walter Boyle, felt revulsion.†   (source)
  • She said impassively, "I am returning to the Doral."†   (source)
  • His face was still impassive as he dropped into a crouch.†   (source)
  • The Mexican in the white coat was there, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • Leamas replied impassively, "On what charge?"†   (source)
  • Wa, wa," yelled the babies all on one note, almost impassively, without feeling, as if it were all in the day's work.†   (source)
  • Mr. K's face was impassive.†   (source)
  • Moses was quite impassive, allowing himself to be directed without any movement of his own.†   (source)
  • "It was your idea," Edward said impassively.†   (source)
  • This, Mr. Wandati would bear in silence, looking impassively past her shoulder at the window.†   (source)
  • He watched the videos impassively, but in fact he was amused.†   (source)
  • "Burn him to death," the pope said impassively.†   (source)
  • He watched impassively as Jace hurried over to Clary.†   (source)
  • The Twins retreated under the stairs and stood impassively beside each other.†   (source)
  • Qin Shi Huang said impassively, "I'm not impressed.†   (source)
  • The girl shrugged impassively after a few more seconds and ambled toward the door.†   (source)
  • The supervising Agent placed the pen in his hand and gazed at him impassively.†   (source)
  • Cooper said nothing, he merely gazed impassively at them.†   (source)
  • They both looked at Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw impassively, Becca with--amusement?†   (source)
  • A quick glance showed Prusias sitting impassively in his seat, stroking his beard.†   (source)
  • "People don't look for kinds of work any more, ma'am," he answered impassively.†   (source)
  • My mouth filled with saliva, and I vomited all over my boots while the boy smiled impassively.†   (source)
  • She looked back at Eugenides impassively.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia stood there impassively.†   (source)
  • Bert was kicking at the ground, clearly sulking, while Wes stood by impassively.†   (source)
  • Call had expected the fight and watched impassively, pleased that the boy had fought so hard.†   (source)
  • "The president of the Atlantic Southern," said Eddie impassively, "has committed suicide."†   (source)
  • He looked at her as impassively as she knew she looked at him.†   (source)
  • David looked at him impassively for several seconds.†   (source)
  • "Split rail," the conductor answered impassively.†   (source)
  • "How long?" the conductor said impassively, in answer to his question.†   (source)
  • "We git 'im back, Mama," Ethel said impassively.†   (source)
  • MEEKER, who has been sweeping impassively now stops and leans on the broom.†   (source)
  • They watched him impassively, curiously almost, their eyes steady and cold.†   (source)
  • She passed old vendors with leathery faces sitting under the shade of plane trees, gazing at her impassively behind pyramids of cherries and mounds of grapes.†   (source)
  • Firenze surveyed Harry impassively.†   (source)
  • Ed stood with his hands behind his back beside the door to Judge Fielding's chambers in the obsequious pose of a royal footman, watching everything impassively.†   (source)
  • As Kate made a great production of fluttering her eyelashes and rolling her eyes loopily about, Reynie and Sticky edged past S.Q. to talk to Charlie Peters, who stood a little distance away, gazing impassively down the corridor, apparently not the least interested in Kate's fate.†   (source)
  • The boy who had served them tea earlier is standing beneath one of the fig trees holding a chicken, watching her impassively.†   (source)
  • Let me in," I said again, irritably, but she only stood there impassively in the crack of the door, not quite looking me in the eye but somewhere to the side of my face.†   (source)
  • The crossing was long since fully booked, he was told impassively, as the Watussi was the last ship to set sail from Bremen for Cape Town that year.†   (source)
  • And Adel's eyes connected with Kabir, one of Baba jan's two bodyguards standing impassively on the other side of Baba jan, Kalashnikov in hand.†   (source)
  • From the window, Mariam watched impassively what she had wondered about and longed to see for most of her life: the comings and goings of Jalil's daily life.†   (source)
  • Beside her, Babi was impassively listening to a man who was arguing that the Soviets might be leaving but that they would send weapons to Najibullah in Kabul.†   (source)
  • She looked at me impassively.†   (source)
  • Beside her, Stannis watched impassively, his jaw hard as stone under the blue-black shadow of his tight-cropped beard.†   (source)
  • The Agent watched the young teacher impassively for a stretch of silence that made Max squirm and Mum scoot back against the wall.†   (source)
  • The dwarves waited impassively, talking in low grunts as they eyed the barred gate and the mountain that rose up behind them.†   (source)
  • The Blue Springs player, alone now and unchallenged, dribbled toward Mafoday, who stood impassively in goal, waiting for the inevitable shot.†   (source)
  • With the sound of water roaring in my ears, I ran for the staircase, past the gods, who watched impassively.†   (source)
  • He slanted a glance at Iggy, who was standing impassively, brushing dust he couldn't see off his dark pants.†   (source)
  • Some stood impassively.†   (source)
  • Otto emerged from the other side of the tent and mounted the flimsily constructed ring and waited impassively in the corner, leaning his considerable weight against the rope.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger took this impassively.†   (source)
  • Fang was standing there impassively as she went on, brushing her long dark red hair over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • "Red," Dane said, impassively.†   (source)
  • "Our queen said to tell you this is how we treat thieves in Attolia, and she awaits the water of the Aracthus," said the Attolian, but the sly expression on his face faded as the queen stared at him impassively.†   (source)
  • After a while, he said impassively, "Dagny, that new rail we discussed last month-I don't think I'll be able to deliver it.†   (source)
  • He stood impassively, his head held level, she saw the undisturbed lines of his profile, his eyes directed at the door.†   (source)
  • The chief engineer was looking at him impassively, as if words were not conveying anything any longer.†   (source)
  • She was drawling her words impassively, as if she were stretching them to fill time, for some reason which he could not imagine.†   (source)
  • When Rearden handed to him the deed to his new property, Danagger said impassively, "I don't believe I've mentioned that any coal you buy from me, you'll get it at cost."†   (source)
  • His cold, blue eyes made two horizontal cuts across the gaunt planes of his face; they remained horizontal, impassively half-closed; he said evenly, without emphasis: 'I'll do it.†   (source)
  • She had screamed when Ellis Wyatt went; she had gasped when Andrew Stockton retired; when she heard that Lawrence Hammond had quit, she asked impassively, "Who's next?†   (source)
  • But to her surprise and relief, he remained expressionless and his voice was quite impassively matter-of-fact as he said, "I was a Catholic but now I am a Gottglaubiger.†   (source)
  • HELEN is enough interested in and puzzled by this spelling that she proffers her hand again; so ANNIE spells and impassively dunks it back in the spillage.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore listened to Harry's story with an impassive face.†   (source)
  • Snape looked back at her, quite impassive, as she turned slowly away from him again.†   (source)
  • Coin stays as impassive as ever, watching me, unimpressed.†   (source)
  • The man watched with impassive interest as Elias screamed again and turned to run.†   (source)
  • Harry tried with all his might to keep his face impassive.†   (source)
  • His broad face was impassive, but his voice was leaden.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive as ever, though something sober had melted into his eyes.†   (source)
  • You crouch in ambush as a cool, impassive moon rises over the nighttime paddies.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza was impassive as he held the letter in his hand and said: "It's good luck.†   (source)
  • "Master Archivist," said Lorren, his face impassive as ever.†   (source)
  • Stilgar moved along the ledge, his bearded face impassive.†   (source)
  • Billy's face was impassive as stone as Edward parked my truck against the curb.†   (source)
  • She would come home as impassive and indifferent as ever.†   (source)
  • "Victoria held a grudge against Bella," Edward told her, his voice impassive.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger watched him, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • Valentine's face was impassive, almost motionless.†   (source)
  • His expression was stiff, impassive, but I could see anger in it.†   (source)
  • This time, Wells had braced for the barb, and his face remained impassive.†   (source)
  • "Not Jace," she said, unable to help herself, thinking of those clear, impassive eyes.†   (source)
  • All this was said softly, as if to herself, her voice slow and impassive.†   (source)
  • I composed my features into an impassive, angry mask without a trace of embarrassment.†   (source)
  • She snaked her head over to Murtagh and stared down at him with an impassive blue eye.†   (source)
  • His stone face was impassive, streaked with dirt and grime.†   (source)
  • With some peevish exclamation he looked up at Cherry, who remained impassive.†   (source)
  • Billy's face was no longer impassive, and his hands clutched at the armrests of his chair.†   (source)
  • After a long moment, I felt the cool impassivity of the Heart of Stone surround me.†   (source)
  • Her face and eyes were impassive, and she did not appear to be wholly present.†   (source)
  • I could see them stealing quick glances at their impassive son, much like I was.†   (source)
  • Her face was impassive, but for the eyes.†   (source)
  • A dozen Iron Sisters gazed back, impassive and silent.†   (source)
  • Luke swore, and glanced toward Zachariah, but the Silent Brother was impassive.†   (source)
  • My voice strengthened, and I leaned forward, closer to the agent's impassive face.†   (source)
  • An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face.†   (source)
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