Viggo Mortensen

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

American Actor

Jerome Powell

The United States has never prioritized or failed to pay any obligation when due during a debt limit impasse. Despite the institutional risks and the lack of clear legal authority, we assume that Treasury will attempt to prioritize payments in a last-ditch effort to avoid default.

American Public Servant

Daisaku Ikeda

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

Japanese Writer

Darryl Pinckney

The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.

American Novelist

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

American Leader

Kenzo Tange

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

Japanese Architect

Tom Allen

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

American Politician

Roberto Azevedo

Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

Brazilian Diplomat

Use 'impasse' to describe a deadlock in arguments where compromise seems impossible.

Unsolvable Conflict

Reference 'impasse' when negotiations are stuck with no solution in sight.

Negotiation Halt

'Impasse' can describe any situation that is blocked, not just literal paths.

Metaphorical Use

Literally, 'impasse' is used for a street with no outlet, often in urban planning.

Dead-End Street

Highlights the physical obstruction or lack of passage in a road or path.

Physical Barrier

Point out that an 'impasse' can cause confusion or require rerouting in travel.

Navigation Challenge

 and it's always a further question. So I think we're at a kind of impasse here. We've got this wonderful, great chain of explanation, we're used to it, where physics explains chemistry, chemistry explains biology,

How do you explain...

 maintained that quantum states really are fundamentally indeterminate, and entanglement allows the state of one particle to depend on that of its distant partner. For 30 years, physics remained at an impasse,

Einstein's brilliant...

 with a cameraman to test the suits and respirators as the two explored the cave Tulio decided to cross an impasse by himself to investigate the crevasse