Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen other pairs of weekend magicians dressed up to suit their urbane alter egos. We mingled and traded charms. When the train brought us all to Boston we scattered for a dozen different night spots. The two of us got on another car whose riders were all dressed to impress. An old couple on the bench next to us beamed. The woman said to her husband, "I hope you don't mind if I get up and start swinging in the aisles." He chuckled. They were going to hear Benny. I asked them if they knew what kind of stuff...
...suspects that this preoccupation with Egyptian arcana has affected Drury's other literary skills. Drury was never famous for creating endearingly human characterizations; yet the figures in his latest book actually impress the reader as having been embalmed for a thousand years. They are not unbelievable--it is merely difficult to understand why Drury would ever have bothered to resurrect this hedonistic, simple-minded Pharaoh and his sycophantic friends. The dialogue, moreover, could only have been overheard coming from inside a dusty sarcophagus. Like the stiff-jointed and forbidding statuary that is ancient Egypt's gift to the world...
...able to convert thrift into greed instantly, and makes it possible for all of us to buy things we don't need with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like...
...ambassadors decided the proper approach was to appeal to Khaalis' faith. To brush up on the Koran, Ghorbal phoned his political counselor, who supplied him with some apt quotes. Said Ghorbal: "We decided to use the Koran to impress on him that Allah orders us to be merciful...
...became wife of the Chairman and still found herself alienated from the work she wanted to do, she feared that misconceptions about her personal history were still unresolved. With no one to defend her (apparently not even Mao), she made another special appearance before the Party organization just to impress upon these ostensibly fair-minded men her plight in Shanghai...