The phrase "affecting impression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence that something has on someone's feelings or thoughts.
Example: "The film left an affecting impression on the audience, prompting many to reflect on their own lives."
Alternatives: "powerful impact" or "moving effect".
Lacking any trace of cuteness or precocity, Maldoom's disciplined children manage to create the far more affecting impression of being part of something much larger than themselves.
Because Ms. Cojocaru's leg — radiant with energy — ascends way above head height, you could already hear a tizzy of excitement in the house, but she immediately made a much more affecting impression simply by the way she then parted her hands and opened her arms; the simpler feat was the more poetic.
According to the recorded data, the null hypothesis was partially rejected because the accuracy of the impression techniques was only different in angulated implant conditions and there was an interaction between impression technique and implant angulations and that both affect impression accuracy.
The present research showed that stress also affects impression formation, one of the distinct cognitive processes underlying social behavior.
Lighting may affect impressions of public places after dark.
At the same time, web designers also want to use web pages not just for conveying information but also for affecting users' impressions.
What's not old but unprecedented is how on the technical side we receive images, a factor that may partly affect the impression of moral downward mobility.
It is, the researchers conclude, a "relatively mindless" process, and one that may powerfully affect our impression even of those well known to us.
As for Mr. Clinton's jabs at Senator Obama, "it's not going to affect the impression of him, not in the black community or not outside the political offices among the general people," Ms. Wilson said.
No one believes that a museum violates § 106(2) every time it changes the frame of a painting that is still under copyright, although the choice of frame or glazing affects the impression the art conveys, and many artists specify frames (or pedestals for sculptures) in detail.
