impassivity in a sentence
Examples
- He has stated, " I had been doing this band Angels of Light for thirteen years, and had reached a kind of impassivity with that, sorta like I had reached an impassivity with Swans when I initially stopped it ."
- He has stated, " I had been doing this band Angels of Light for thirteen years, and had reached a kind of impassivity with that, sorta like I had reached an impassivity with Swans when I initially stopped it ."
- Frozen into impassivity, she's focused on her own unrequited love for the go-getter businessman who set her up in the bar, but is leery of commitment, partly because he worries that her past might abort his entrepreneurial ambitions.
- Director Benoit Jacquot said he wanted Huppert, and only Huppert-- with her signature impassivity-- to play the role of Dominique, an established divorcee who buys sex and finds love in the arms of a low-life Arab prostitute.
- "This was quite different from garden-variety male impassivity, " writes Collins, " because with Attila you could detect a rich emotional life churning beneath his still surfaces-- a teeming reef flourishing under smooth, cool, inviolable waters ."
- Dressed in blue dress uniforms or business suits, striding a bit stiffly but in good order, they wore expressions of soldierly impassivity as they turned to salute Yeltsin and Gen . Pavel S . Grachev, the defense minister, who directed the Chechen campaign.
- His next days passed in closed classes with a handful of Mannes voice students, preludes to an open master class in which Vickers _ now highly interventionist _ drove home the lessons he had begun in the previous days with an impassivity befitting a classically trained Freudian analyst.
- Many of these were " yakusha-e " ( actor prints ) and " bijin-ga " ( images of beautiful women ), including images of standing courtesans, whose faces conveyed an impassivity typical of the works of the KaigetsudM school.
- In what may well be the most accomplished performance of her formidable career, Huppert marshals all of her subtle actorly prowess : gait, stance, that less-is-everything aggressive impassivity of hers and, of course, the inimitable death-ray gaze create a universe of meaning.
- The patched-together patter ( Elizabethan meets Elizabeth, N . J . ) won a cult following, and Ms . Borowitz won praise for her spidery poise, her creepy impassivity and her ability to keep a straight face while sleepwalking with a flashlight and scrubbing her guilty hands in a birdbath.