Hernández received him impassively.
And that's exactly why, in this context, smoking becomes an oddly heroic gesture, an assertion of personality in the impassive face of fate.
Sonny Greer, a cigarette waggling before an impassive face, jounces up and down on his stool so hard that he seems to be on a galloping horse, and Rex Stewart, as the night advances, becomes progressively more cocky and springy as he takes his solos.
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by Sharon Levy He'd become a house guest, noncommittaland impassive.
Its diplomats, for example, did eventually stop parroting their line about unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state and allow United Nations peacekeepers to be deployed in Sudan.The saga over Sudan shows how sensitive the Chinese authorities have become to criticism, despite their impassive reputation.
He developed a monotonous nasal drone and impassive stage demeanour which became key ingredients of the band's cartoon-like appeal.
Mr. Norman, who by now seems to have become almost inured to being convicted, looked impassive, even relaxed, as the jury announced the verdict.
The chord, played by members of the new-music chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound, became a ghostly ellipsis, hanging heavy and impassive in the air.
But the face of Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old leader of the struggle against apartheid who became South Africa's beloved first black president, remained impassive as stone.
