impassive
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Synonyms
affectless, apathetic, cold-blooded, emotionless, impassible, numb, passionless, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid, undemonstrative, unemotional
Antonyms
demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, hot-blooded, impassioned, passional, passionate, vehement
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The strip spins out the joke: to illustrate to Linus the distance between two locations (the absurd pairing of Texas and Singapore), Lucy plots the points over the top of Charlie Brownâs bare, impassive pate. — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, "How âPeanutsâ Created a Space for Thinking," 6 Aug. 2019 Her latest star is even more impassiveâan aluminum tear gas grenadeâbut seen amid surreal pulsating color. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Using AI, and Film, to Track Tear Gas Use Against Civilians," 25 July 2019 Early pieces in the show are rooted in earthy craft traditions or varieties of impassive, stripped-back modernism. — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, "What makes a great art school? Haystack has the elusive answer.," 24 July 2019 A half-dozen impassive portraits by Otto Dix exemplify the cold exactitude of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity; so does another Grosz of a reader with a glass eye, skin waxy, veins bulging. — New York Times, "Beat the Heat With These 10 Must-See Art Shows," 19 July 2019 But that fish- eye lens just stared back at her, impassive, unblinking. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "A starfighter pilot awakens in an unwelcome future in this excerpt from Velocity Weapon," 11 June 2019 The defendant, wearing a maroon sweater with dark brown elbow patches, was impassive as the verdict was read. — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, "Nxivmâs Keith Raniere Convicted in Trial Exposing Sex Cultâs Inner Workings," 19 June 2019 The authorities who bullied them were at once almost generic typesâthe strict teacher, the unbending parent, the relentless suitor, the impassive judgeâand mordant portraits of the sorts of figures on whom power settled in Kiarostamiâs Iran. — Max Nelson, Harper's magazine, "The All-Seeing Eye," 10 June 2019 By The man who was and then wasnât and now is the Kansas City Chiefs linebackers coach stood outside the practice field on a sunny afternoon last week, impassive and rather expressionless in his first meeting with local media. — Sam Mcdowell, kansascity, "Chiefsâ new assistant coach brings âfiery, energeticâ style to revamped defense," 4 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'impassive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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