Sample Sentences for
impassive
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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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    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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    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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    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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    On the face of his youngest was the brilliant, impassive look he remembered from when she had snatched her love letters out of his hands.  (source)
    impassive = show of 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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    His face, constrained to impassivity by the binding strap, infuriated Baby.†  (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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    BRADY is left alone on stage with DRUMMOND, who still watches him impassively.  (source)
    impassively = in a manner showing little emotion
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