Cloud was just one of many acts to impress at Adelaide fringe.
One was wounding the enemy, America and its allies, but another, equally important, was to use carefully choreographed acts to impress, amaze and inspire those in the Islamic world who had yet to heed the call to arms.
He still wanted to be a writer ― in high school, Castillo only ever acted to impress girls anyway ― but in 2006 he found himself starring in a Labyrinth production of "School of the Americas," a play by "Motorcycle Diaries" scribe José Rivera.
Silent, she had watched an act committed to impress her, to deserve her love, as other acts had been.
I'm not going to act some way to impress anybody".
Down here, he must act tough too, to impress his mates, and pretend to be a big brother for his sister.
The elephant got loose, wreaked havoc in a small village, trampled someone, and subsequently calmed down, but a crowd had gathered, and he felt compelled to act so as to impress them and establish his own authority.
If the boy is a troublemaker, don't act like that to impress him.
Michael Musto touched on this feeling when he paraphrased drag performer Heidi Glum in his New York Times recap: "Unlike at Manhattan drag revues, where acts are seeking to impress real or imagined talent agents, no one cares".
Over the next few years, Mr. Frank said, he tried all sorts of different gags on his site, including videos on how to act convincingly and how to impress a date.
