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She remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern.impassive = revealing little emotion
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"That means you want the long answer," he said, his voice impassive, not reacting at all to my curt tone. (source)impassive = having or revealing little emotion
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A fleeting expression crossed the Special's impassive face--annoyance mixed with suspicion. (source)impassive = revealing little emotion
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I looked around and up at Mr. Cunningham, whose face was equally impassive. (source)impassive = showing little emotion
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His eyes were flat and impassive. (source)impassive = with little emotion
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I envisioned her as the wise sage, sitting in a rocking chair, impassively pouring the moving details of her life into my waiting tape recorder... (source)impassively = in a manner showing little emotion
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She picked them up, cradling them in her open hand as she worked through them, her expression moving from impassive to curious to, at one shot of Elinor sprawled on the floor, somewhat horrified. (source)impassive = having or revealing little emotion
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He keeps the process going, however, impassively but carefully unearthing the shabby traces of the recent past. (source)impassively = in a manner that shows little emotion
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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)
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I told him exactly what had happened and he listened with seeming impassiveness, but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to the open wound in his breast.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I sat cross-legged on one of the beds and tried to look devout and impassive like some businessmen I once saw watching an Algerian belly dancer, (source)impassive = having or revealing little emotion
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The god looked up impassively. (source)impassively = in a manner showing little emotion
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No matter how isolated a mountain place we stopped in to practice, there was an audience soon of herdsmen and peasants in their sleeping-suit white costumes and sandals soled with pieces of rubber tire, little kids and the mountaineers with the creased impassivity that showed how gravely they took it.† (source)
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The servants came first, then a few charitable institutions, then several remoter Melsons and Stepneys, who stirred consciously as their names rang out, and then subsided into a state of impassiveness befitting the solemnity of the occasion.† (source)
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Fang glanced over at me, his face smooth and impassive, though I could almost feel the anticipation rolling off his feathers. (source)impassive = revealing little emotion
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The ARVNs who hadn't already left watched us impassively. (source)impassively = in a manner showing little emotion
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