Sentence examples for impassive on from inspiring English sources

It's a potent performance; impassive on the surface, Lindon reveals the weight of despair in the dragging steps, the bowed shoulders, even the droop of his character's moustache.

When the war ended, jazz became a cult music again, and musicians began to look impassive on the bandstand, as if they had nothing to prove beyond their music.

Madeleine Peyroux, an artist I've sometimes found a shade impassive on a big stage, was warm, communicative and at her best in the intimate surroundings of Ronnie Scott's Club in April.

At the rally site, a giant spotlit portrait of him gazed down impassively on the red-shirted crowds.

As the audience applauded, Mr. Davis sat impassively on the dais.

The concourse was humming with passengers one afternoon who were either jostling to get to their gates or gliding impassively on a moving walkway.

The former trader, dressed in a dark suit and tie, listened impassively on Wednesday as Judge Filippini read the verdict to a wood-paneled courtroom packed with journalists.

And in the recent Richard II at the Donmar Warehouse, Eddie Redmayne sat impassively on a throne in the middle of the set, staring directly at incoming theatre-goers.

K.K. sat impassively on the chair, raised above the crowd, then lowered at the doors, like an awkward king, a king onstage.

For her most famous work, "Cut Piece" (1964), shown on looped projected film at moma, she sat impassively on a stage as volunteers from the audience scissored off bits of her clothing.

Now, as the Japanese engineers who built it celebrate below, it squats impassively on its backwards-facing haunches.The prize for victory is not just the applause of fans, rivals and robo-curious spectators, who have come in their thousands.