What is "impassive"

Usage examples of "impassive".

The Jondarites striding along, their plumes nodding over their impassive faces, their hands upon the butts of their spears, resting at night beside the fire, polishing their fishskin armor with oil.

They backed unseeingly into the impassive bodies of five large constructs that had moved into position behind them.

In the next decades his grave, impassive face, topped by the tall-crowned hat, would be painted by four white artists and photographed by many daguerreotypists, so that the deep lines down his cheeks would become familiar across the country, and he would represent the archetypal Indian chief, the man of unshakable integrity.

Fu-Manchu slowly raised his hands, and a smile dawned upon the impassive features--a smile that had no mirth in it, only menace, revealing as it did his even, discolored teeth, but leaving the filmed eyes inanimate, dull, inhuman.

Finlay and Robert nodded formally to each other, faces utterly impassive, and then Finlay abruptly stuck out his hand.

Morat looked impassive, and Dalen watched with flintlike eyes from a face set hard.

Uthan looked completely impassive, staring slightly past Hokan as if she was calculating something.

As usual, the khagan kept his face impassive, but his voice was stern.

His face impassive, he bent his lionlike glowering gaze upon Thoth-Amon.

I was now merely a spectator, and from my couch in the big room I could lie and watch the human interplay with that detached, impassive, impersonal feeling which French writers tell us is so valuable to the litterateur, and American writers to the faro-dealer.

The senior Mughal listened with an impassive look and then was startled, probably when the figure was mentioned.

Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

Their faces were impassive as they marched with their pikes aligned on their right shoulders in practiced military precision.

Anton Schmidt, with his thick glasses and his porkpie hat cocked low, then Walter Calvi, with his bristly hair and his long black coat, then me, trembling uncontrollably, then Peter Cressi, his Elvisine features tight and his eyes lethal, and then the Cuban, his face impassive and the assault rifle calmly held in front of him like a tennis racket at the ready.

After repeated agitations at the door among portiers, proprietors, and waiters, whose fluttered spirits imparted their thrill to the spectators, while the coachman and footman remained sculpturesquely impassive in their places, the carriage moved aside and let an energetic American lady and her family drive up to the steps.