Sentence examples for impress itself from inspiring English sources

Not until we were racing back to Ridgedale did the full magnitude of my blunder begin to impress itself on me.

"Magnificent!" declared the pastor, Msgr. Thomas P. Leonard, clapping smartly as he said so, allowing the long return to impress itself on a visitor.

He was a "small groups" man, most at home in the atmosphere of the General Council or on the staff of a newspaper, where his character could impress itself forcefully on a small body of coworkers.

But Eighth Blackbird, the new-music ensemble that was waiting in the wings of Merkin Concert Hall that evening in 1998, had found a way to impress itself on listeners' memories.

While the necessity for total sacrifice takes time to impress itself on Alfonso Nitti, the hero of As a Man Grows Older (Joyce's title; the original is Senilità) seems to have grasped it before the book begins.

One of Mann's wittiest accomplishments is to recapture the stiffly formal side of official life in the thirties, the pompous tone of bureaucracy and media, too — the sound of a newly powerful country trying to impress itself with its own importance.

That lawlessness impressed itself on American minds eight years ago, when 18 American soldiers died on the streets of Mogadishu.

Set to Bartok, his ballet impressed itself strongly on the eye, but did not leave an equally strong after-image.

It is even more difficult to specify how the city impresses itself on the records made there.

What impressed itself most powerfully upon Mr. Sen, and eventually inspired some of his most important work, was the uneven impact of the tragedy.

Yet the categorical difference between, say, Sports Illustrated and Nature Genetics seemed not to have impressed itself on the company's decision makers.