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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)
  • Then he looked at Muldoon, standing there, large and 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)
  • Will, his face impassive, was staring straight ahead of him at some unseen point.†   (source)
  • Harry tried with all his might to keep his face impassive.†   (source)
  • She tries her best to look impassive.†   (source)
  • Rose sat calmly, almost impassive.†   (source)
  • He flinched when the spray struck his face, then stood impassively, eyes closed, as black water swirled at his feet.†   (source)
  • The jurors sat with studiously impassive faces as they strained to make sense of matters.†   (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)
  • The guards at the door just watched, their faces impassive.†   (source)
  • The red eyes watched him impassively.†   (source)
  • She glanced through the window, down to the street corner where the soldiers stood, their faces impassive beneath the metal helmets.†   (source)
  • He stared up at the camera in the corner of the cell, which blinked at him impassively.†   (source)
  • Cal stands to his father's right, his face still and impassive.†   (source)
  • The woman remains impassive, but I catch the flicker of surprise on the man's face.†   (source)
  • They were impassive whenever she wavered, and firmly recalled her to her earliest statements.†   (source)
  • The white beast and her spotted friend have successfully ambled to the safety of the opposite shoulder, still impassive.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive, eyes focused on me, intent on the job ahead of him.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive, expectant.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Firemen leaned off the ladder trucks, looking up towards the Temple of Dendur; cops stood tensely shoulder to shoulder, impassive in the rain.†   (source)
  • The old man continued to watch him impassively.†   (source)
  • He sat on sari flowers and from that unassailable position of strength surveyed the scene impassively.†   (source)
  • I kept my face impassive, but I couldn't keep myself from wondering where these questions were leading.†   (source)
  • The dragon watched impassively, listening and learning.†   (source)
  • She looked up at me impassively, then back down.†   (source)
  • "He jumped from great heights," Edward told me, his voice impassive.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger looked impassively at Mo's face.†   (source)
  • Chronicler stood impassively throughout the introduction, watching Bast as if he were a snake.†   (source)
  • At the door to the courtyard the matron turned, erect and impassive, back along the corridor.†   (source)
  • They had large, impassive faces and pale blue eyes.†   (source)
  • Gaskill remained impassive, unimpressed.†   (source)
  • Impassive, emotionless.†   (source)
  • The drug dealer listened impassively through his lecture but didn't retaliate or argue with his strange-seeming neighbor.†   (source)
  • I wished him cold, impassive, gone.†   (source)
  • He saw that beneath her assumed impassivity she was deeply confused.†   (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)
  • Jose Arcadio Buendia, impassive, did not let himself be frightened by the desperation of his wife, who, in a seizure of rage, mashed the astrolabe against the floor.†   (source)
  • When she went back to his office, he was sitting impassively behind his desk, studying some papers.†   (source)
  • I kept my face impassive.†   (source)
  • Hawat's leathery old face remained impassive, betraying none of the loathing he felt.†   (source)
  • Marcos thought no woman in her right mind could remain impassive before a barrel-organ serenade.†   (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)
  • She stared back, her face impassive.†   (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)
  • Their faces were impassive.†   (source)
  • Still, Caroline watched the faces in front of her turn impassive, masked.†   (source)
  • I boosted myself onto the side of the table, trying to look impassive.†   (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 Chancellor narrowed his eyes slightly as he assessed Wells's impassive face.†   (source)
  • Obasan is moving about deaf and impassive, unavailable for questioning or their ministrations.†   (source)
  • An older Armenian—his father perhaps—was impassive, staring straight ahead.†   (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)
  • The president watches, his face impassive, that pencil making just the slightest clicking noise on his perfect white teeth.†   (source)
  • The black man was impassive.†   (source)
  • But his face was impassive.†   (source)
  • Turner's junior partner, a hulking redhead in a white marshall's uniform, stands by impassively.†   (source)
  • Maloney did all the talking while Wong looked at me impassively.†   (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)
  • Stoddard met these recklessly inconsiderate grimacings with an impassive stare, then looked away.†   (source)
  • The walls of Blackcliff rise around us like impassive sentinels.†   (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)
  • Strolling closer, he rested his hands upon his knees and leaned forward until his thin, impassive face hovered only inches away.†   (source)
  • After an impassive departing embrace, I rode off.†   (source)
  • Yossarian watched him impassively.†   (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)
  • His chiseled face is impassive, his dark hair shiny with pomade.†   (source)
  • I glance a couple of times at Luke's face, but he's staring impassively ahead.†   (source)
  • Rav Gershenson was silent for a long moment, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • The owner turned impassively to fill her order; there was, in his stolid indifference, the kind of mercifulness that asks no questions.†   (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)
  • I do my best to remain impassive.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani was impassive.†   (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)
  • They in turn had sat impassive as the scoreboard.†   (source)
  • Denny gave her an impassive stare.†   (source)
  • His impassive black eyes had a slightly minted cast, but they registered more boredom than malevolence.†   (source)
  • Leamas replied impassively, "On what charge?"†   (source)
  • She turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell, impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield.†   (source)
  • Impassively Floss smoked and waited for her to continue.†   (source)
  • He kept his face impassive and continued to listen.†   (source)
  • His face was still impassive as he dropped into a crouch.†   (source)
  • His voice was reedy and intense, his ape's face impassive, and again the thief, Walter Boyle, felt revulsion.†   (source)
  • The Mexican in the white coat was there, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • She said impassively, "I am returning to the Doral."†   (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)
  • A moment of impassive silence, and then, "It does not pay to be dishonest with your doctor."†   (source)
  • "Your friend," said her mother, impassive as always.†   (source)
  • One Var was very, very impassive.†   (source)
  • The string player somehow looked both impassive and gratified, and launched into another, this one noticeably faster and loud enough for Seivarden to safely whisper to me again.†   (source)
  • Impassive.†   (source)
  • This, Mr. Wandati would bear in silence, looking impassively past her shoulder at the window.†   (source)
  • "It was your idea," Edward said impassively.†   (source)
  • He watched the videos impassively, but in fact he was amused.†   (source)
  • He watched impassively as Jace hurried over to Clary.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia stood there impassively.†   (source)
  • The Twins retreated under the stairs and stood impassively beside each other.†   (source)
  • "Burn him to death," the pope said impassively.†   (source)
  • Qin Shi Huang said impassively, "I'm not impressed.†   (source)
  • It gazed at him impassively as Max read ORION, SYRIAN SHEDU on its nametag.†   (source)
  • The girl shrugged impassively after a few more seconds and ambled toward the door.†   (source)
  • MEEKER, who has been sweeping impassively now stops and leans on the broom.†   (source)
  • The supervising Agent placed the pen in his hand and gazed at him impassively.†   (source)
  • David looked at him impassively for several seconds.†   (source)
  • A quick glance showed Prusias sitting impassively in his seat, stroking his beard.†   (source)
  • Call had expected the fight and watched impassively, pleased that the boy had fought so hard.†   (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)
  • They watched him impassively, curiously almost, their eyes steady and cold.†   (source)
  • They both looked at Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw impassively, Becca with—amusement?†   (source)
  • She looked back at Eugenides impassively.†   (source)
  • Bert was kicking at the ground, clearly sulking, while Wes stood by impassively.†   (source)
  • He looked at her as impassively as she knew she looked at him.†   (source)
  • "The president of the Atlantic Southern," said Eddie impassively, "has committed suicide."†   (source)
  • Cooper said nothing, he merely gazed impassively at them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Blue Springs player, alone now and unchallenged, dribbled toward Mafoday, who stood impassively in goal, waiting for the inevitable shot.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Beside her, Stannis watched impassively, his jaw hard as stone under the blue-black shadow of his tight-cropped beard.†   (source)
  • She looked at me impassively.†   (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)
  • Some stood impassively.†   (source)
  • He slanted a glance at Iggy, who was standing impassively, brushing dust he couldn't see off his dark pants.†   (source)
  • With the sound of water roaring in my ears, I ran for the staircase, past the gods, who watched impassively.†   (source)
  • "Red," Dane said, impassively.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Coin stays as impassive as ever, watching me, unimpressed.†   (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)
  • Ron stared at Hermione, but her face was quite impassive.†   (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)
  • "Master Archivist," said Lorren, his face impassive as ever.†   (source)
  • She would come home as impassive and indifferent as ever.†   (source)
  • And then, just as suddenly, her features smoothed, impassive.†   (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)
  • His expression was stiff, impassive, but I could see anger in it.†   (source)
  • "Victoria held a grudge against Bella," Edward told her, his voice impassive.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger watched him, his face impassive.†   (source)
  • His broad face was impassive, but his voice was leaden.†   (source)
  • The guard was impassive and disciplined again; there were no individuals among them, just the whole.†   (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)
  • Luma remained impassive, and they kept running ...and running.†   (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)
  • Aureliano Segundo listened to her for more than two hours, impassive, as if he were deaf.†   (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)
  • "I can't serve today," she said to me, her voice impassive as her emotions were not.†   (source)
  • "Two weeks," said the Nilter woman, impassive.†   (source)
  • "Your face is almost perfectly impassive," Strigan said to me.†   (source)
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