In my selfconscious, preteen, pupal stage, I moved away from Nutwood to Bunty and Mandy annuals, of which I retain a predominantly pink collective impression of breathless stories about ponies and Victorian orphans nursing wounded squirrels back to health.
Though each single instance may be dismissed -- or excused -- as ephemeral, the collective impression of a hundred fleeting glimpses is that life in New York is now one ceaseless, unrelenting branding campaign.
It is from the collective impression, from the sight of many books wedged together on many shelves, that the mysterious good feeling comes.
The collective impression was that this inflammation was focal rather than diffuse.
The leaders will complete questionnaires to elicit collective impressions of the product and feedback from individual members.
The January upheaval at the top of the television industry gives the impression of a collective New Year's resolution.
Moreover about half of the 3,500 iPhone app publishers who use Mobclix have already opted into the ad exchange program, making a collective ad inventory of 4 billion impressions a month available for bidding.
It is a cosmic stream of consciousness in seven sharply contrasted movements, its free-associating structure giving the impression, in the best performances, of a collective improvisation.
It makes a strong impression, this silence of mourning and condemnation, a collective hush.
