The phrase "a Lingering image" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a visual or mental impression that remains in one's mind after an experience or event.
Example: "The haunting melody left a lingering image of the sunset over the ocean, forever etched in her memory."
Alternatives: "a lasting impression" or "an enduring vision."
Many in the industry also acknowledge that marijuana faces a lingering image problem.
Violence, grinding poverty, flood, earthquakes all leave a lingering image of a benighted nation bereft of tender moments.
A lingering image from the tobacco wars was the 1994 photograph of top cigarette company executives testifying before Congress that they did not believe cigarettes were addictive.
The ballet comes to a satisfying close, ending as it began, with the same high, dramatic lift in arabesque, now more of a lingering image than an instant of flight.
Experts in modular housing say a major reason for its small share of the market is a lingering image problem -- modular housing is often confused with manufactured housing, the industry's term for mobile homes.
The turbines were astonishing pieces of equipment — large enough so that some manufacturers put helicopter pads on top — and the technical complexity dispelled any lingering image I had of Chinese factories as rows of unskilled workers stooped over cheap electronics.
The current reality is that George Osborne's dash for (shale) gas has banished any lingering images of David Cameron's pre-election photo opportunity with the huskies.
The energetic, forceful writing and robust interchange between the two players dismissed any lingering images of the harp as delicate or pastoral, with the players sometimes using their instruments as percussive vehicles.
Boeing is a marquee company, and state leaders hope its presence will help erase South Carolina's lingering image as an industrial backwater.
Whatever the case, the lingering image of a business defying authority has many residents on edge.
