impassivity

1 Self-expression has long been a fraught issue in Major League Baseball, where impassivity — the ability to “act like you have been there before” — often feels as highly regarded as power hitting and foot speed.

2 What remains is Menzies’s Lucas, a man in the eye of a maelstrom, initially mired in impassive incomprehension until a particularly brutal act shocks him into fury.

3 Her face remained impassive throughout the trial.

4 If Chauvin maintains the same impassivity he demonstrated throughout the trial, Judge Cahill might decide to add a few years to whatever sentence he has carefully calculated in advance.

5 Proud, hard, alone, with a cord of violence quaking below his impassivity, he lives in a small bleak house and lives a small bleak life.

6 Being in, the visitor regarded the voluble butler with characteristic impassivity.

7 He was a young man of about twenty-three or twenty-four, with a countenance in which eagerness was curiously mixed with impassivity.

8 In “Atomic Blonde,” the actress has become an avatar of icy, murderous impassivity.

9 Though the long-standing medical ethos emphasized impassivity to be a virtue for physicians, I could no longer deny my emotions as I cared for him and learned his story.

10 A sort of Platonic dialogue of doubtful authenticity “on the impassivity and the passivity of God” in Syriac is in the British Museum.

11 A flash of malevolent fury broke Ah Sing's mask of impassivity.

12 At tournaments, triumph and disaster should be greeted with equal impassivity.

13 The method yielded a moving array of images, depicting tears, of course, but also rage and hope, impassivity and mania.

14 Yet somehow, from this mask of pharaonic impassivity, a performance of sorts leaks out.

15 She was bewildered when they alighted, but concealed it by impassivity, as usual.

16 The former laborer, who sometimes broke into tears during his testimony, spoke in front of a large screen broadcasting Lucas García’s impassive figure.

17 The man made no gesture at their approach, but turned his eyes upon them with the impassivity of a cat.

18 Slingsby himself moved quickly away, and his face lost for a second the mask of impassivity.

19 Farrell is impassive as the travesties mount, behaving like a robot that relies on algorithms to process and feign emotion.

20 Neither did Seyd’s explanation of his business abate his brown impassivity.

1 冷淡

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2 无感觉

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3 无表情

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4 冷静

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5 泰然

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6 无动于衷

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