| This impassiveness or removal presents dilemma and difficulty when immediacy and accessibility has been anticipated. |
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| He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. |
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| I tried to keep my face a mask a perfect impassiveness, as he always did, but I knew I looked desperately hopeful. |
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| Reduced capacity to feel emotions as if the child was void of all feelings, numerous repetition of the story of trauma with cold impassiveness. |
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| But as anyone who has lived here all his life knows, everything is taking place with a strange and disheartening kind of impassiveness. |
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| With such violence in these characters' internal worlds, and such a maddening external impassiveness, those inner passions are bound to break out somehow, and it won't be pretty. |
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| Leslie pictorialized this turn of events by investing his subjects with a grim impassiveness and placing them back to back, as if posed to pace off in a duel. |
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