All 5 Uses of
impassive
in
War and Peace
- He was evidently distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features.†
Chpt 2 *
- Bagration, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment.†
Chpt 2
- Is there anything at all behind that impassive face?†
Chpt 2
- The old man was still sitting in the ornamental garden, like a fly impassive on the face of a loved one who is dead, tapping the last on which he was making the bast shoe, and two little girls, running out from the hot house carrying in their skirts plums they had plucked from the trees there, came upon Prince Andrew.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(impassive) having or revealing little emotion -- especially under circumstances others would find exciting