Sentence examples for impassive state from inspiring English sources
If tranquillity consisted in mere refractoriness to unsettling experiences, the impassive state of a stone should then be viewed as the best condition (Theonoston, OO, II, 299b, 305b, 313b).
He was a vegetarian and didn't drink, he said impassively, merely stating a fact.
Keith Materi, 41, of Nashville, an antitax protester who was recently laid off from AT&T, stood alone in front of the Capitol with a bullhorn, long past dark, shouting "No means no!" into the impassive faces of state troopers guarding the building.
Thousands chanted "Police state!" under the impassive surveillance of blue-uniformed Israeli police officers.
They looked up at me impassively and waited for me to state my case.
The president's aides looked on ashen-faced and Mr Obama listened impassively as the Israeli leader tore into his assertion that a future Palestinian state should be based on the pre-1967 ceasefire lines.
Then, Philip was impassive.
The Pirahã remained impassive.
Otherwise, he is impassive.
