Word: impressionism
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O'Malley ended up majoring in chemistry. "My impression was that the [English] department was a little stodgy," he says.
Friends can tell you whether they think you have succeeded in communicating your strengths. Advisors can comment on the impression your resume makes and what they can learn about you from it. When you interview career advisors to learn about occupations and gather job hunting advice, ask them to critique...
Ekman's formula is helpful, within limits. It defines the contexts in which lies are or are not improper. It absolves actors and fiction writers, for example, whose professions involve fabrications but whose audiences are presumably aware of this condition before they go to the theater or open a book...
Furthermore, the prolonged recession has created endemic anxieties. If survival seems to hang on getting an edge, cutting a corner, telling a lie, then many otherwise moral people will choose to survive. The economy will, of course, improve; but the hangover from the recession may stick around: the impression that...
The arrangements of the first three songs make an immediate musical impression. On "Earth Died Screaming," Waits sings in a low grinding voice until the chorus when he shifts to a high register and screams "And the earth died screaming/While I lay dreaming of you." The effect is electric.