“His poker-faced timing makes the most of even mediocre one-liners, and beneath sequoian impassivity lurks an engagingly warm persona.”

“Her controlled impassivity harbored an emotional intensity, a quality of pent-up fire and feeling, a volcanic reservoir of desire or ambition.”

“There is no doubt that impassivity towards all kinds of pleasures, emotions, power and wealth in the soul's journey towards truth is a sine qua non for the philosophical way of life.”

“He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book.”

“I tried to keep my face a mask a perfect impassiveness, as he always did, but I knew I looked desperately hopeful.”

“This impassiveness or removal presents dilemma and difficulty when immediacy and accessibility has been anticipated.”