When he plays his own compositions — and he rarely plays anything else — he can create the impression of elusive and flickering beauty.
So the idea that it can quantified on a simple scale is appealing; it gives the impression that an elusive aspect of behaviour can be pinned down.No wonder, then, that the annual corruption perceptions index (CPI), which orders countries according to the perceived degree of graft, is closely watched.
Finally, impressions, lasting and elusive, are the focus of "Drawing and Its Double: Selections From the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica" at the Drawing Center, another venerable SoHo nonprofit.
Aquino still enjoys a vast amount of support, but her disinclination to take the political initiative on key issues while she searches for an elusive consensus has contributed to an impression of irresolution & drift.
The actors playing Chekhov's characters are always pacing or running or jumping, and the impression "is less of people running after elusive dreams than of actors running after elusive roles," Ben Brantley writes.
But the impression here is less of people running after elusive dreams than of actors running after elusive roles.
In others, where the ideas are elusive or thin, it feels like not enough, an impression exacerbated both by a stretched-out installation and by the knowledge that some of these artists have appeared to better advantage elsewhere.
Schoenberg's twilight piece, with its bold leaping intervals and passionate rhetoric, give the impression of weight and pressure; the Webern items are elusive, transparent, already moving toward the reductive style of his later work.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the film leaves you with the impression of having lived, vicariously but intensely, through something whose meaning is both profound and elusive.
