His imperturbability was a valuable asset; he never lost heart or dreamed of retiring from the arena, nor did he ever cease to impress his party as being their most useful and acceptable representative. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
That steely imperturbability which is alternately the pride and pleasure of Mr. Untermyer's friends, the glittering surface of which it is said no cloud has ever shadowed or no gale disturbed, was fast losing its distinction under the influence of the excitement that welled up in the heaving bosom of the eminent cross-examiner; and excitement and he were so remote, so studiously antagonistic, that I looked on and listened in wonder for the outcome. ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)
There's also something of his bat-in-a-bubble imperturbability in England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook . ❋ Richard Lord (2011)
To me they seem to have become as irrelevant as a Biedermeier bathing suit or the imperturbability of a gentleman. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In other cases it is a communal voice, the voice of a town faced with something unfamiliar that kicks the legs from under a shared sense of middle-class imperturbability. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
The desire to penetrate the surface of Egyptian imperturbability and fathom the hoary and arcane wisdom presumed to lurk beneath it is at least as old as Herodotus. ❋ Tom Holland (2010)
His intelligence and imperturbability may be more important now than any theatrical display of profanity. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'm gonna try to buy him a drink (or a "drank," if you will) to see if we can get him a little more feisty and fiery in concert, crack through that pomaded sheen of imperturbability and let loose with some howls, a gyration or two (does he do that?) and other activities better suited to the Larimer Lounge. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I barked, with what I hoped was a not too stern forcefulness, combined with sufficient steel and empathy to create the appearance of a firm imperturbability. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I barked, with what I hoped was not too much stern forcefulness, with sufficient steel and empathy combined into a firm imperturbability. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He is undoubtedly sincere, and his dignity and personal imperturbability have something almost severe in quality. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)
The dominant impression that they convey as a group is of an extraordinary impassivity or imperturbability; with rare exceptions (which he himself is portrayed as regretting), Pyrrho is depicted as maintaining his calm and untroubled attitude no matter what happens to him. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr. Jaffa is already developing what the ancient Stoics and the great Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard called ataraxia, or imperturbability. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In isolation Cleveland learns to adopt an "iron mask" of manly imperturbability as a "chief security against treason, or mutiny of my followers" (216). ❋ Unknown (2006)
Laughter followed on the friendly epigram; but Arthur, who made one of the group, maintained a frigid imperturbability in his quality of an English gentleman who takes gravity for the very basis of his being. ❋ Unknown (2007)
-- Holly BaileyGlobal BuzzBy A.L. BardachSALMAN SPEAKS: At a recent book party in Manhattan, novelist Salman Rushdie explained his imperturbability in the face of yet another fatwa slapped on him just two months ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Despite Lenin's single-mindedness and apparent emotional imperturbability, Crankshaw argued that the Russian leader was "no automaton." ❋ Unknown (2005)
Although he knew he was out numbered, [Seeshoumaru] remained Imperturbable as he showed no sign of [fatigue] or worry.
It more so describes me than [Sess].
-nods to the truth- ❋ Shadow Prince (2005)
