| Her controlled impassivity harbored an emotional intensity, a quality of pent-up fire and feeling, a volcanic reservoir of desire or ambition. |
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| It's their torpedo-like mobility, their impassivity and their highly polished armour-plating. |
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| The impassivity of the card players makes them as timeless as the mountains around Aix, and as monumental. |
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| What is required is not mechanical robot-like impassivity, but human impartiality. |
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| She's infuriating, but the movie, for all its morose impassivity, is beautiful and haunting. |
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| His poker-faced timing makes the most of even mediocre one-liners, and beneath sequoian impassivity lurks an engagingly warm persona. |
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| Eliot stood out in their cultural milieux for their impassivity and stoicism, not to mention their Europhilia. |
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| Compact and shining: the London aesthete's ostentatious impassivity becomes the contented quiet of a younger brother peeking at a menagerie hidden behind a fence in a little mansion on Fourteenth Street. |
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| A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone. |
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