impassivity in a sentence

Examples

1. At their first court appearance Tuesday _ a video hearing before a judge 25 miles away _ the four escapees showed varying degrees of emotion, from tears to impassivity.
2. The personality disorder, however, can weaken self-control, increase impulsiveness and impassivity and make the patient less capable than normal people to control his behavior, he said.
3. Superiors are also expected to behave with impassivity, dignity, self-discipline, and self-confidence, and adopting these mannerisms sometimes enhances a man's opportunities for success.
4. His voice mixes fatalism and placidity much as Leadbelly's had 50 years before; one hears a folkish impassivity that may well have been found on the 1925 cylinder recording as well.
5. Because of recent breakthroughs, researchers now know more about how the adolescent brain works, specifically that the circuits that control impassivity, anger management, and interpersonal relationships are not fully formed.
6. The audience watches with studied impassivity as the women shake and shimmy, though there's an appreciative murmur when one of them comes out to dance with a three-tiered candelabrum on her head.
7. Behind the seeming mechanical impassivity of the chip, choices are to be made by a faceless army of raters and computer experts, who will add shut-off codes to be beamed along with the shows.
8. Data, the entertaining neo-Spock figure played by Brent Spiner, had his impassivity threatened by human emotions in the much livelier " Star Trek Generations, " and it's threatened yet again here.
9. Americans have remarked on her seeming impassivity, suggesting a lack of feeling, but her British countrymen and women have no doubt that she is keeping a stiff upper lip as one would expect from a true English girl.
10. A more recent interpretation suggests that the man is in fact a " contrast figure ", designed to highlight Sappho's love for the girl by juxtaposing the strength of Sappho's emotional reaction with his own impassivity.