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After that, there were plenty of characteristic flicks off his pads through midwicket, some controlled drives and a complete imperturbability throughout the day on the ideal flat pitch.
Of the latter he wrote: He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.
His sensitivity to criticism stood in stark contrast to the single-minded imperturbability with which his greater counterpart, Abraham Lincoln, pursued his own war aims.
In this moment of supreme trial his best qualities came to the fore; his imperturbability , force of character, and courage saved the situation.
The Stoics, among whom asceticism was primarily a discipline to achieve control over the promptings of the emotions, upheld the dignity of human nature and the wise man's necessary imperturbability , which they believed would become possible through the suppression of the affective, or appetitive, part of man.
This was Richard Chin's point, too: squash is about endurance and sangfroid, about accepting everything your opponent throws at you with the appearance of imperturbability , until he loses heart.
As a rule, people who have worked or spent time with Annan are as much at a loss to explain his imperturbability as he is.
Mr. Alf Ramsey, for once, found the shenanigans too much for his imperturbability , and came onto the field as the game ended to prevent his players sternly from exchanging shirts with the Argentinians, a tradition in international football.
Howells becomes a different writer in Venice, achieving a note of happy imperturbability , at once avid and serene, that remained for a long time the desired style of American descriptive writing.
But what he was going for was an imperturbability that had to do with eighteenth-century notions of honor, gentility, and manliness; its closest surviving kin, today, is what's called military bearing.
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The noun "imperturbability " functions as a quality or state of being. It describes the capacity to remain calm and composed, especially in the face of adversity or stress. Ludwig shows it's often used to highlight a person's ability to maintain composure.
Expression frequency: Very common
