Sentence examples for direct impression from inspiring English sources

Both photography and the silhouette seem to offer a direct impression of the living being, either traced from the person's shadow, or captured on a chemically prepared plate.

Yet contrary to the myth of noble self-destruction, the music was not some direct impression of a haunted life magically caught by microphones and pressed onto disks.

That image had long been defined by the Mandylion of Edessa, a piece of fabric thought to contain a direct impression of Jesus' face.

Characteristic poems that proffer Williams' fresh, direct impression of the sensuous world are the frequently anthologized "Lighthearted William," "By the Road to the Contagious Hospital," and "Red Wheelbarrow".

Letterpress printing, also called Relief Printing, or Typographic Printing, in commercial printing, process by which many copies of an image are produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper.

But headphone listening is an interior drama, in which mental space replaces physical space, and energy makes a direct impression on your eardrums the sound is sometimes overwhelming, but not as spatially convincing.

More than 20 smaller works on paper bear direct impressions taken from the artist's skin.

According to Petrus, knowledge is appearance of objects: man knows what exists by direct impressions, more or less clearly, but without intermediaries; forms, essences, and universals are fictions.

Although oil landscapes had been painted at least since the 16th century, they usually were produced in the studio recollections, rather than direct impressions, of observations of nature.

As increasing technological advances can further separate us from direct impressions of nature, this class is designed to reconnect and enhance our relationship to the natural world and our surrounding environment.

The biographer who has known his subject in life enjoys the advantage of his own direct impressions, often fortified by what the subject has himself revealed in conversations, and of his having lived in the same era (thus avoiding the pitfalls in depicting distant centuries).