(1) The system shows almost complete imperturbability to moisture.
(2) MAC correlated with musculoskeletal complaints (-.29, p less than .05), eye complaints (-.36, p less than .05), personal activity (.38, p less than .05), personality dimensions: "Imperturbability" (.41, p less than .01), "Wellbeing" (.31, p less than .05), "Traditionalism" (-.45, p less than .01) and "Psychophysic constitution" (all evaluated by questionnaires), a body weight index (-.51, p less than .01) and systolic blood pressure after performance (-.51, p less than .01).
(3) Rolling sheets of ice particles were scouring the road, while the midday sky remained an imperturbable blue.
(4) That causes a clash between contradictory impulses: unruly urge for freedom and independence on the one hand, and insatiable yearning for harmonic community, that means, for imperturbable warm-hearted human relations on the other.
(5) It enraged this normally imperturbable competitor that the chair umpire refused to overrule the call and his anger got the better of him when he belted a forehand into the tape to give Murray the serve for a two-set lead.
(6) Obama, usually imperturbable in public, said he had not been "on vacation" and was busy with the economic crisis and two wars.
(7) The delightful-sounding writing partnership between the gum-chewing, slang-slinging, jodhpurs- and baseball cap-clad Wilder and the imperturbable East Coast brahmin Charles Brackett seemed like the ideal creative combination of accelerator and brake pedals.
(8) In this time, I saw Graham as diligent writer, movie star, alcoholic, activist and ultimately imperturbable, impenetrable human being.
(9) Once when an engine in a plane he was flying in caught fire, he was imperturbable.
(10) The best guarantees to avoid "dis-stress" as well as psychic stress-disorders are changing of attitude of life, compensation of overstrain by sensible recreational activities, going in for sport, engagement for human and social environmental factors as well as a harmonic family-life and a conception of life in the sense of imperturbability and tolerance.
(11) The kidnappers' demands were ably investigated by the bride, imperturbable in ivory satin, though the list of suspects (a brisk resumé of all the Braithwaites' aggrieved lovers) made her reconsider matrimony.
(12) His whole political position, in his own country and to an extent in the world, is based on projecting an image of being brilliantly and imperturbably on top of things.
(13) Despite living through extraordinary circumstances – a self-made man, he married a sometime chorus-girl, spent time with Hollywood movie stars, endured Nazi internment and journalistic accusations of treason – he still kept up the appearance of imperturbable "normality".
(14) Happily she is imperturbable – a "cool cat", as Louis Smith has it.
(15) The Social Imperturbability PD subscale was related inversely to trait anxiety.
(16) High and low levels of assault were best differentiated by Ma3 (Imperturbability), Scale 5 (Masculinity-Femininity), and Pa2 (Poignancy).
(17) Or does Osborne try to mimic Howe’s imperturbability in his pursuit of a swaggering Britain-as-hedge fund, a country ruled by the swift buck?
(18) After the Bin Laden raid the normally imperturbable army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, held town-hall meetings on three bases.
(19) Journalism's loss, I fear.... More here: Janet Yellen's High School Friends Remember Her As Interested In Everything And Imperturbable Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) ALSO: Exclusive photos of Janet Yellen in high school.
(20) Once again I'm struck by the proximity and the imperturbable sang-froid of the big beasts.
Phlegmatic
Definition:
(a.) Watery.
(a.) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
(a.) Generating or causing phlegm.
(a.) Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
Example Sentences:
(1) This zoophilic dermatophyte may cause a difficult human phlegmatic trichophytia infection.
(2) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(3) Rosberg, it seems, has resigned himself to the more phlegmatic tactic of doing his considerable best while hoping that Hamilton implodes.
(4) Cypriots are phlegmatic in a way their more hot-blooded Greek neighbours are not.
(5) If that means you’re not going to vote for me, well I’ve had my career, but I want to do what I think is the right thing, and if that means it costs me votes, it costs me votes.” Three decades in the police has had the added advantage of making him “phlegmatic” about his posters being repeatedly vandalised, he adds cheerfully.
(6) Surely murdering children at a pop concert should set these useless phlegmatic Brits’ blood boiling?
(7) A phlegmatic person is characterised by a lack of egoistic or altruistic instincts while feelings of nausea or fear are increased.
(8) While Brandon Lewis, Tory MP for Great Yarmouth, whose constituency includes the Hemsby area, pledged to help residents fight for more funds for coastal defence, some people were remarkably phlegmatic about the storm.
(9) The chancellor knew that Britain's biggest bank was in trouble even before McKillop came on the line, yet even the normally phlegmatic Darling was surprised at the size and immediacy of the crisis.
(10) That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons."]
(11) Lebedev, a semi-opposition figure, was phlegmatic about his defeat, telling the Guardian: "My campaign lasted for three days."
(12) Even phlegmatic Germany had a post World Cup hangover; in an environment as emotionally volatile as South Africa, it's inevitable.
(13) Welby is said to be phlegmatic about the prospect, believing he has done everything possible to offer the opportunity to forge a new, looser relationship, which hardliners may choose to reject.
(14) One of the few to take the turn of events phlegmatically was Johnson’s father, Stanley, who said the appropriate phrase was “Et tu, Brute?” before going on to say he now thought Gove was the best choice.
(15) The 57-year-old surgeon from Glasgow, who had been booked on a flight yesterday anyway, was phlegmatic about the whole affair.
(16) "If we need to go back over that stuff," says Ashley, resolute and phlegmatic, "our problems were from 10 years ago.
(17) You have to do the best by your child, don’t you?” is intoned with a phlegmatic sigh, lips pressed together in wry acknowledgment that the situation isn’t ideal, but life’s a bitch, and one’s own child’s interests – obviously– trump every other consideration.
(18) The oligarch said he didn't regret bringing the case, and even attempted a phlegmatic note, observing: "Life is life," before speeding off in a black Mercedes.
(19) All I’m doing is giving a pint of blood over six months.” Ruth Atkins, an NHS communications manager and former nurse from Oxford, is similarly phlegmatic about her contribution.
(20) I thought of Georges Simenon’s curmudgeonly, phlegmatic detective, Chief Inspector Maigret.