IMPERTURBABLE in a Sentence

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1. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity.
2. She was almost renowned in the congregation for this imperturbable veracity.
3. With her imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet.
4. When the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is disconcerted.
5. Rhett never deviated from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments.

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imperturbable
 a.  unshakably calm; placid; incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
2  She was almost renowned in the congregation for this imperturbable veracity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
3  They ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
4  When the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is disconcerted.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
5  Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  Rhett never deviated from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  She paused a moment before the last name, and shot a query through her lashes; but he remained imperturbable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  She expected the agent to fly into a passion, but he was, to her bewilderment, as ever imperturbable; he even offered to go and get a lawyer for her, but she declined this.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  At the same time Mercedes reappeared, paler than before, but with that imperturbable expression of countenance which she sometimes wore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
11  "Probably," said Monte Cristo with his imperturbable tranquillity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
12  The count's anxiety was manifested by a bright color which seldom appeared on the face of that imperturbable man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
13  Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
14  With her imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
15  She thought it would annoy him, but he only folded his arms under his head, with an imperturbable, "That's not bad."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Example Sentence:
1  In the midst of the battle, the Duke of Wellington remained imperturbable and in full command of the situation despite the hysteria and panic all around him.