"gather an impression" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to form a perception or understanding of something based on information or observations. Example: After speaking with several employees, I was able to gather an impression of the company's work culture.
Women get him out of as much trouble as they get him into, and the reader gathers an impression of a personal attractiveness and coolheadedness of which scarcely a hint existed in the craven bully of the relentlessly cautionary "Tom Brown's School Days".
To gather a crude impression of the general attitude, I chatted with roughly twenty businesses located in that central panhandle, assuring everything was totally off the record.
"She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy.
"Graduates come and go – they stay between two to three years, but he is always there, so, hopefully, our graduates will have gathered a good impression, and, through word of mouth, might end up employing someone like him". Manby hopes initiatives like this will encourage people to see normality in employing autistic people.
IF THE average American, North, South or Central, gathers any impression at all from this weekend's Summit of the Americas, it is likely to be of a group of politicians holed up in the old city of Quebec, hiding from masses of anti-globalisation protesters kept out by a purpose-built fence.That is a pity.
A follow-up collection could gather the impressions of those musicians still living now.
However, when I spoke with several of Tendai's colleagues and direct reports to gather their impressions of him, they painted a very different picture.
Sometimes, it can be a lesson in humility, but it's important to gather initial impressions and then move beyond them.
"We travel with candidates to see them in action, to see them interact with voters, to see who (and how many people) turn out for their events and to gather voters' impressions," Carolyn Ryan, Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, said in an email.
