| The Sphinx has one hundred and fifty qualifications for impassiveness which you lack. |
| Reduced capacity to feel emotions as if the child was void of all feelings, numerous repetition of the story of trauma with cold impassiveness. |
| This impassiveness or removal presents dilemma and difficulty when immediacy and accessibility has been anticipated. |
| I tried to keep my face a mask a perfect impassiveness, as he always did, but I knew I looked desperately hopeful. |
| But as anyone who has lived here all his life knows, everything is taking place with a strange and disheartening kind of impassiveness. |
| He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. |
