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Example sentences for "impassible"

Lexicographically close words:
imparting; imparts; impassable; impasse; impassibility; impassion; impassioned; impassive; impassively; impassiveness
  1. Rumphius breathed hard and perspired in streams; the impassible Evandale turned hot and felt a moisture on his temples.

  2. On entering, the impassible Evandale felt a strange emotion; it seemed to him, as Shakespeare says, that the time was out of joint.

  3. One responsive glance, the faintest shadow of yielding on those impassible features, and she would have told him all.

  4. It has no bridges; is good in dry weather, but in the rainy season is impassible for wagons and even at times for horsemen.

  5. He wrote down their wishes with an impassible expression and at length managed to escape.

  6. Upon his impassible face not the slightest emotion was visible.

  7. He stopped, and looked at Olivia's impassible face.

  8. His features remained impassible as those of a corpse.

  9. Suitors flocking from every shore and island of the Ægean never made Sappho forget, for one hour, that stubborn impassible Phaon.

  10. Such a destiny, for one or other of us, I saw depicted in the impassible face of my adversary--as plainly as if written upon the sky.

  11. As we have said, Trigaud seemed in no way puffed-up by his triumph; his countenance remained as impassible as that of an ox allowed to breathe after some powerful exertion.

  12. When I met Madame de Bergenheim again, I found her completely changed toward me; an icy gravity, an impassible calm, an ironical and disdainful haughtiness had taken the place of the delicious abandon of her former bearing.

  13. Gerfaut had imposed upon his countenance that impassible serenity which guards the heart's inner secrets, but had not succeeded so well.

  14. But as he saw nothing upon the impassible visage of the cardinal, nothing on that of his mother, nothing on those of the assembly, he resigned himself, and sat down, taking care to be seated before anybody else.

  15. D'Artagnan shrugged his shoulders and unsealed the letter, while the impassible Englishman held for him a large lantern, by the light of which he was enabled to read it.

  16. You are, in fact, sire," said the impassible caster-up of figures.

  17. The two men on the bench and the eight at the tables, although they seemed perfect strangers to each other, these ten men alone, we say, appeared to have agreed to remain impassible amidst the cries of fury and the chinking of money.

  18. But D'Artagnan was impassible and Porthos motionless; the thrusts aimed so skillfully were parried by an able adversary; not one hit the mark.

  19. After we discovered this, we never went into ecstasies any more--we never admired any thing--we never showed any but impassible faces and stupid indifference in the presence of the sublimest wonders a guide had to display.

  20. A few straggling villages, reached by an avenue of trees, raised the roofs of their houses in the midst of impassible bogs that served for natural defences.

  21. Citizens, the people of Paris, calm and impassible in their strength, have awaited without fear, as without provocation, the shameless fools who want to touch our Republic.

  22. The Liberals remain impassible or applaud; the workingmen stop the way.

  23. Yet these men met death, or what is worse, met life, with defiance or impassible fronts.

  24. And this would be enough for man if he had an impassible life, both corporally and spiritually; but since man is liable at times to both corporal and spiritual infirmity, i.

  25. But even then He was in this sacrament in an impassible manner.

  26. Therefore, neither was Christ's body impassible when given under the sacramental species.

  27. In that body which was circumcised and carried, which ate, and toiled, and was nailed on the tree, there was the impassible and incorporeal Word of God: the same was laid in the tomb.

  28. But now by virtue of the sacramental words it is Christ's impassible and immortal body which is consecrated upon the altar.

  29. Yet there was present in the sacrament, in an impassible manner, that which was passible of itself; just as that was there invisibly which of itself was visible.

  30. The Word is impassible whose Nature is Divine.

  31. Whether Christ Received and Gave to the Disciples His Impassible Body?

  32. For since a heavenly body is impassible and incorruptible, as is proved De Coel.

  33. And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.

  34. Therefore Christ's Passion belongs to the suppositum of the Divine Nature by reason of the passible nature assumed, but not on account of the impassible Divine Nature.

  35. Therefore He gave it just as it was after the Passion, that is, impassible and immortal.

  36. Objection 1: It seems that Christ both received and gave to the disciples His impassible body.

  37. And the Virgin seemed to him to be cruel, badly informed, as harsh and indifferent as even impassible nature, distributing life and death at random, or in accordance with laws which mankind knew nothing of.

  38. The officer started after the impassible Juanito, and I dressed myself in all haste.

  39. Mademoiselle de Verneuil looked fixedly at the cold, impassible young man who had scorned her, but she saw nothing in him that betrayed the slightest feeling of alarm.

  40. Again the commander examined Marche-a-Terre, whose impassible face still gave no sign.

  41. They both turned back with a sense of distrust which the bailiff understood at once in spite of their impassible faces.

  42. The three priests had the livid, impassible faces which you all remember.

  43. The four gentlemen remained impassible during the examination of their enemy, who seemed determined to overwhelm them with generosity.

  44. Yea, that 'there is a broad and impassible line of demarcation between every man who has one drop of African blood in his veins and every other class in the community'!

  45. Under that impassible radiance of sunlight, the Pyrenean fields seemed dull, all their plants, all their grasses were as if collected in one knows not what resignation weary of living, what expectation of death.

  46. His mind also must have remained similar, his mind capable of impassible murder at the same time as devout fetichism.

  47. Just before night we came to a place where some huge rocks as large as cabins had fallen down from the mountain, completely filling up the river bed, and making it completely impassible for our boat.

  48. Immediately in front of us was a cañon, impassible for wagons, and down into this the trail descended.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impassible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anesthetic; anesthetized; apathetic; arctic; asleep; autistic; benumbed; bloodless; blunt; callous; catatonic; chilly; cold; comatose; cool; dead; dispassionate; drugged; dull; frigid; frosted; frosty; frozen; hard; heartless; icy; immovable; impassive; insensate; insensible; insensitive; insentient; insusceptible; numb; obdurate; objective; obtuse; passionless; soulless; spiritless; unemotional; unfeeling; unfelt; unimpassioned; unloving; unresponsive; unsusceptible; unsympathetic; passionless; soulless; spiritless; unemotional; unfeeling; unfelt; unimpassioned; unloving; unresponsive; unsusceptible; unsympathetic; untouchable