Sentence examples for impress himself from inspiring English sources

He just made it up to impress himself.

Jefferson had only four or eight years to impress himself on the country and was unwilling to waste any of those hours presiding over arguments, even polite ones, between differing factions at his table.

The reader goes on to learn that Mr Clark's failure to impress himself on the "tightly controlled sexuality" of his personal private secretary was a matter of continuing regret as his ministerial career advanced.

For although he made some policy mistakes, Mr Hague's problem was less a failure of political ideas or positioning than a personal failure to impress himself on voters as a credible and attractive alternative prime minister.

He has what could be called a peripatetic mind and, like any good performer, he uses it to keep you on the edge of your seat, not asking inconvenient questions, and also, perhaps, to impress himself when he's about to confront an obstacle in his path.

We can only imagine how Liam Neeson, a gruffer presence, who for a long while was Spielberg's choice of leading man, would have fared as Lincoln; and I hope one day to see Viggo Mortensen, whose bone structure has the right sad concavity, impress himself on the role.

Finally, it seemed, he had even impressed himself.

It is hard to imagine New York City without Edward Koch impressing himself on its every facet, demanding, in his trademark imperiousness, to be saluted by one and all.

Afterward, with microphones and notepads shoved inches from his face, bringing him finally to a halt, Mariota shrugged off questions about whether he had impressed himself and whether he could appreciate this type of performance, the superhuman kind.

The world No 82 had only previously impressed himself on general attention by beating Andy Murray at the Olympics, and broke Roddick's serve only once in four hours and 36 minutes.

During the action of the book, Marin's father lives in Canada in exile, an emeritus professor of Spanish at the University of Toronto; Rick uses his father's successes "to impress dates" -- and he is unabashedly impressed himself.