We got an over-all impression of good humor, preoccupation, and a high purpose with just a whiff of intrigue.
The updating of the story is thin; some dramatizations, though short, are distracting, but the over-all impression, of a time of constant meetings and conversations that gave voice to stifled frustrations and united untapped energies, remains visionary and heroic.
The over-all impression of the meeting from the attendees I spoke with was that Trump showed no signs of having been sobered or changed by his elevation to the country's highest office.
"Through it, all impressions of the world come and from it all our acts, thoughts and feelings are communicated.
The over-all impression was of Jacqueline Kennedy taking your order at a drive-through window.
The over-all impression is of an overindulged society, jaded from too much spare time and disposable income.
He snarls, he squints, he gives all the impression of being about to do something unconscionably devious (last week I compared him to Peter Lorre, this week he made me think more of Dustin Hoffman's 'Ratso Rizzoo from Midnight Cowboy).
All this creates an impression of economic growth (little of which comes from manufacturing and industry) and, if one ignores the simultaneous growth of slum housing (lacking water, electricity or adequate sewage), the promise of entry to a better life.
And yet the over-all impression is one of leftover anecdotes clumped together under the banner of conservation.
The over-all impression should be of an alert, courageous but calm and kind animal.
The barren slopes, the horseshoe ridges and the moorland below all left an impression of "grandeur and desolation", as William Wordsworth once wrote.
