Sentence examples for impressed contemporary from inspiring English sources
The opulent refinement of this massive tome's gold-and-black decoration on white Moroccan leather (as well as its silk brocade dust jacket and chromolithographic plates inside) so impressed contemporary connoisseurs that a company in St . Petersburgsaw fit to produce another extravagant volume, "Histoire du Livre," to document its creation.
It has been suggested that the visit of Tiridates I, an event that greatly impressed contemporaries, was adapted by Christians to become the story of the adoration of the Christ Child by the Three Magi.
Bennett also suggested that he was much more impressed with contemporary US literature than its English counterpart.
In the end what most impressed Goldsmith's contemporaries was the paradox he presented to the world: on the one hand the assured and polished literary artist, on the other the person notorious for his ineptitudes in and out of society.
Modern readers, perhaps because they are less impressed than Scarron's contemporaries by the daring of parodying the Aeneid, often find the humour facile and too drawn out.
Contemporaries were scarcely impressed – "a facetious experiment upon public intelligence" suggested one – and even now it is hard to decide whether it is, or is not, absolutely horrid.
During his years in Italy Meyerbeer became acquainted with, and impressed by, the works of his contemporary Gioachino Rossini, who by 1816, at the age of 24, was already director of both major opera houses in Naples and in the same year premiered his operas The Barber of Seville and Otello.
Two importantly different lines of theory came together in that monumental work: psychological theory, on the heels of Franz Brentano (and also William James, whose Principles of Psychology appeared in 1891 and greatly impressed Husserl); and logical or semantic theory, on the heels of Bernard Bolzano and Husserl's contemporaries who founded modern logic, including Gottlob Frege.
Voters are less impressed.
We were extremely impressed".
