So he is not as impassive to criticism as his drooped eyelids and air of indifference in front of reporters that night might have suggested – at least not to his friends, among them the American Jack Sock, who was standing at the back of the room, swapping knowing smirks.
"They don't want impassive," Mr. Lowry said.
Not hostile, just impassive.
Our Charlie Browns weren't sweet and impassive.
From 8,000 miles away, the leaker looked on impassively, not even indulging in a wry smile.
During the 100-minute verdict and sentencing, Karadžić sat impassively, not in the dock but on the defence bench, as he opted throughout the five-year trial to act as his own lead counsel.
Indeed, if you watch the older babies during the experiments, they don't act like impassive judges — they tend to smile and clap during good events and frown, shake their heads and look sad during the naughty events (remember the toddler who smacked the bad puppet).
Gosling isn't distant and impassive in 2049 because he's playing a machine, but because that's just the actor's default now: cool, mysterious, inhumanly ripped.
In Tampa, the faces were overwhelmingly white, not young, and surprisingly impassive.
These people did not stare, but their impassive sombre faces attracted some attention.
