The phrase "a lingering impression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lasting effect or memory that remains after an experience or event.
Example: "The film left a lingering impression on me, making me reflect on its themes long after it ended."
Alternatives: "a lasting impression" or "a memorable impact."
"The movies create a lasting imagery, and a beautiful star carrying a bag creates a lingering impression," he said.
Yet there is a lingering impression among some Broadway veterans that "Kate" is an underperformer at the box office, especially considering its near-unananimous raves.
That connection created a lingering impression that Mr. DeLay calls most of the shots in the House, an impression that leading Republicans say is false.
The site is not yet known for its deep reporting, and in fact could suffer from a lingering impression that it is sometimes cheerleading for social media rather than providing critical analysis of them.
Some insist that, as with the Depression, the recent downturn has made a lingering impression on how people view the propriety of, say, stuffing a still-working cellphone into a desk drawer in favor of a newer model.
Still, the office characters do not loom as large as they might have, not even the diabolical enforcer who was Mr. Yancey's mentor at first, and who left behind a lingering impression.
When Romney first ran for president in 2008, there was so much discussion about the potential impact of his Mormonism, and his own concern about it was deep enough, that he delivered a set-piece speech designed to rebut any lingering impression of the religion as an exotic, even loopy sect.
Obama, who had to erase any lingering impression that he was a callow newcomer, came to Sumter County and, echoing the language of Malcolm X as portrayed by Denzel Washington, told an enthusiastic crowd, "Don't let people turn you around, because they're just making stuff up.
But that's not the miracle, this is: In only a few short months, it has swept away any lingering impression of the quite awful restaurant that preceded it in that space, Aqua.
BBC America recently ran a documentary called "Paparazzi" that also disabused viewers of any lingering impression that gossip rags are run by gentlemen and scholars.
The lawyers were also eager to challenge any lingering impression that the gun Ms. Bartush used to kill herself belonged to her husband.
