adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blank/impassive (= showing no emotion or thoughts )
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What was she really thinking behind that blank face?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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Taller, wider in the shoulder, clumsily assembled, with a craggy, impassive face .
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The Direktor thought of Madge Grimsilk's totally impassive face and personality.
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As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face .
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No emotion showed on Dempster's impassive face , only a slight pallor in his normally ruddy complexion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her impassive face showed no sign of reaction to the verdict.
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Mr Deacon remained impassive throughout the performance.
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Ramirez's face was impassive as the judge spoke.
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Russell struggled to keep an impassive face as she continued.
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The defendant remained impassive as the judge announced the guilty verdict.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had quit talking to Tregoning and was listening, as impassive as, the manager himself.
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Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces.
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Taller, wider in the shoulder, clumsily assembled, with a craggy, impassive face.
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The Direktor thought of Madge Grimsilk's totally impassive face and personality.
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Their eyes are on the pans of fish and the basket of loaves, but their faces are impassive .
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They in turn had sat impassive as the scoreboard.
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Two impassive cops in shiny black raincoats levelled guns like the Gestapo rehearsing for a massacre.