Instead, Ryan could tell that he had just impressed his host, and he reinforced it, saying "I was fast when I was younger, yeah".
PSV on the other hand, emboldened by their European Cup win in 1988 and the ambition of their primary sponsor and backers Philips, took a chance on a highly-promising striker who had just impressed at the Olympics.
"Nice job" he nodded as we stood up, his grin giving me the feeling of being 13 years old and having just impressed a cool kid.
The perennial nature of such post-mortem dissection has just been impressed upon me personally, because while this column has been celebrating its 10th anniversary, loud echoes have resounded from November 2004's election.
He has just succeeded in impressing the people who gather for the funeral to register their condolences, not the deceased parents.
There are personal issues, but I've just been impressed with the way she's picked it up and run with it.
Alyea developed his two-hour lecture, "Atomic Energy: Weapon for Peace," in 1945, when the horrors and power of the atomic bomb had just been impressed in people's minds.
The pollster pushes: "Which candidate do you lean toward today?" If the interviewee had just been impressed by a powderpuff TV interview, he or she will reluctantly "lean" toward whoever seems hotter on the Internet or in cable talk or whose name is more familiar.
We're in a culture where just to get a Sunni and a Shiite just talking about talking is a huge step.' " For his part, Mr. Saleh, who welcomed Mr. Moran and two other members of Congress to his spacious home in the Green Zone on Saturday evening, says he has just one goal: to impress on his steady parade of American summer visitors just how complex, difficult and nuanced Iraq can be.
