'happy impression' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to an overall feeling that something is pleasant, attractive, or exciting. For example, "The holiday decorations on Main Street give passersby a happy impression of the local spirit."
So it is always a pleasure when a happy impression, like the one made in 1995 by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, is triumphantly confirmed, as that one was on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall.
At its best, John Updike's work not only lyrically defined the joys and sorrows of the American middle class, but also gave - as he once wrote of another author - "the happy impression of an oeuvre, of a continuous task carried forward variously, of a solid personality, of a plentitude of gifts explored, knowingly". Mr. Updike died on Jan . 27 , 2009of cancer.
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".
Offstage, his bright eyes, broad cheekbones and shock of healthy chestnut hair made a happier impression than in the role of Tristan, that gloomy lover born to "yearn and die".
The New York Times called him "almost comedy-proof" and noted that he seems happy with comedic impressions of himself.
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.
And some of the apparent leave voters pushing this remade acronym seem happy to give the impression of coming from further afield than the UK's Brexit voting areas – regardless of where they may actually be posting from.
