What's the difference between imperturbable and unflappable?

Imperturbable


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Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Unflappable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) May, normally so unflappable, seemed to have realised at last that she had something in common with Roy Hodgson – an impossible job.
  • (2) So, of course he is going to suffer, it doesn’t matter if he has an amazing job.” The prince said the event was an opportunity to show that even “unflappable” sporting personalities could experience mental health problems.
  • (3) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
  • (4) As "Lou" Carr, he become assistant managing editor for national news, a much admired, unflappable figure who worked on every major story from the era of Eisenhower to the administration of the first George Bush.
  • (5) The ability to be a good listener, unflappable and patient enough to deal with irascible family members, mediating family spats and calming ruffled feathers also helps.
  • (6) Lagarde's unflappable calm seems to come quite naturally.
  • (7) There were chances in a lively and entertaining last few minutes, with Rashford failing to get a touch to a Martial cross then having the ball whipped from his toes by the heroically unflappable Jagielka, though ominously most of them were at Everton’s end.
  • (8) It is a look that matches his backbench style: unflappable but not insouciant; with authority but no menace and, it once seemed, palpably relieved to be off the front line.
  • (9) It's his spirit, his guile, his unflappable conviction in professional knowledge and practice that you need to channel.
  • (10) It's the one thing that ruffles her otherwise unflappable demeanour.
  • (11) The sport seems to mimic how she conducts business: avoiding collisions with her counterparts, all the while looking unflappable and elegant.
  • (12) Debonair and unflappable, former journalist Les Hinton served as Rupert Murdoch's consigliere for over a decade, smoothing the ruffled feathers of the rich and powerful whenever they were on the receiving end of stories published in News International's stable of titles.
  • (13) What is incontestable is that Timpson was a thoroughly unflappable professional, who was not afraid of getting up at 3am to face any challenge.
  • (14) The double revelation of Letterman's at-work sexual practices and the blackmail plot against him left Manhattan's unflappable TV world stunned.
  • (15) Yet Stephen's is the sort of idealism that turns out to be thin-skinned and highly strung, in spite of the apparent unflappable competence that so impresses both his own boss, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and his enemy's PR chief, Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti).
  • (16) Terry Burns, as he is known to everyone, is described as charming and unflappable, a "down to earth grammar school boy from the north-east" whose passions are "golf and Queens Park Rangers".
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Presidential debate highlights: Clinton and Trump’s final face-off Looking increasingly irritable, he locked horns with the unflappable Fox News moderator, Chris Wallace, and repeatedly cut off his Democratic rival – including, on one occasion, interrupting her mid-sentence with the line: “ Such a nasty woman .” However, it was Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of an election he is currently projected to lose that will stand out from the ill-tempered clash on the debate stage on the University of Nevada campus in Las Vegas.
  • (18) Surrounded by 10 men on a hot debate stage at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California, Carly Fiorina was unflappable and commanding as she maneuvered questions about foreign policy and sexism.
  • (19) Previously seen as the unflappable Supermac, his culling of a third of the cabinet redefined him as a panicker.
  • (20) A nervous and sensitive man, his public posture of unflappability served to reassure the electorate that Britain remained strong and secure.