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Definition
having or revealing little emotion — especially under circumstances others would find exciting
- His voice was reedy and intense, his ape's face impassive, and again the thief, Walter Boyle, felt revulsion.2 — When the Exorcist Shall Go to the House of the Patient... (14% in)
- Sometimes he spoke not to his brother but directly to Boyle, or, rather, directly at Boyle's carefully impassive back.2 — When the Exorcist Shall Go to the House of the Patient... (92% in)
- Face of reddish stone, impassive as a priest's: yessir, nosir.5 — Hunting Wild Asses (76% in)
There are no more uses of "impassive" in The Sunlight Dialogues.
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