While Bech boasted a modest oeuvre of seven books and remained a second-string cult author, his creator was blessed, as he once wrote of Nabokov, with an "ebullient creativity," and his work, too, gave the happy impression of "a continuous task carried forward variously, of a solid personality, of a plentitude of gifts explored, knowingly".
Schaltenbrand had demonstrated great competence and confidence, and like they had of Walshe and Holmes before him, the faculty deemed that he "made a thoroughly happy impression, and his ability to work with other people seemed extraordinarily good a characteristic which is eminently needed in a subject like clinical neurology".
Allred seems happy to give that impression.
But the Markey campaign is happy to leave the impression that the race is closer to prod donors to open their wallets and keep enthusiasm from flagging.
Many people, advertisers included, are all too happy to create the impression that young people don't care about "silly old privacy concerns", he blogged.
Parker, Johnson and others fostered an image of Mount Vernon as an antebellum Eden, complete with happy, welcoming slaves, an impression that sat well with post-Reconstruction America, where civil rights had taken a back seat to sectional reconciliation.
Bush aides were happy to reinforce the impression left in California that with polls showing the Texas governor with a huge lead among Republicans, Mr. McCain decided to head east, where his chances for March 7 looked better.
The restaurant wasn't around in the '60s — it opened in 1996 — but as you can suss out from the cocktails-and-cigarettes imagery on its freshened-up Web site, it's happy to foster the impression that it's the sort of place where Roger Sterling and Don Draper might have cooked up an ad campaign while dog-paddling through rivers of cold gin.
Pointing to Mr Obama's no-show and the government shutdown, it concluded that his "much touted 'pivot' to Asia feels more like a pirouette with an overemphasis on military engagement".The Chinese press is happy to foster the impression of a power shift, taking the argument beyond South-East Asia.
The documentary, titled "North Korea Undercover" and part of the BBC's flagship Panorama series, shows a "landscape bleak beyond words, a people brainwashed for three generations and a regime happy to give the impression of marching towards Armageddon," according to the BBC's Web site.
