The common-man side of Orwell was encouraged by his countrymen's get-on-with-it imperturbability, the puritanical side of him exasperated.
If the Emperor, who had not been trained for the throne, rarely interfered with the course of events, he, nevertheless, impressed contemporaries with an imperturbability founded in personal piety, which did not fail him even during the worst crises to his long reign.
People waiting on the platform at any time can see through the heads, which stare outward with the imperturbability of figures from Angkor Wat, because they are closer to the mesh.
Nudging and nurdling with the imperturbability that drove many an international bowler up the wall, Collingwood, in partnership with Phil Mustard, had guided Durham into a position of impregnability, and one from which the only question should be at which stage over the next two days they complete the victory which will take them to the top of the County Championship.
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.
That is one reason Vermont's governor, Peter Shumlin, seemed to be anticipating the storm with an air of imperturbability, even though much of his state was devastated last year by the remnants of Hurricane Irene.
His dances are thoughtful yet impassioned, addressing loaded themes with a wonderful imperturbability.
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.
One of them, a hugely overweight young Hispanic man named Hurley Jorge Garciaa), provides the little humor there is to be had, with his deadpan imperturbability.
I'm not sure the soignée ghost of Miss Wharton, though, floating about in her monogrammed sheets, regards the trend of our language with the same imperturbability.
The dominant impression that they convey as a group is of an extraordinary impassivity or imperturbability; with rare exceptions (which he himself is portrayed as regretting), Pyrrho is depicted as maintaining his calm and untroubled attitude no matter what happens to him.
