"impressed him as" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to convey how someone or something made an impression on another person. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as describing someone's personality, behavior, or appearance. Example: The speaker's confidence and eloquence impressed him as a natural leader.
Even knowing the popular image of city workers, the Department of Water Management employees impressed him as being as efficient as any private sector counterparts.
During this period, Friberg began to devour books on European identity — specifically, those of Benoist and Faye, whose key works impressed him as much as they impressed Richard Spencer.
Having selected him on the basis of his performance as John Wilder in the television series The Plane Makers (1963 65) and The Power Game (1965 70), Anderson stated that Wymark's acting impressed him as much as Hendry's, but also that his similar drinking habits resulted in slurred lines on set.
One questioner, after offering praise, added that he was concerned about whether Mr. McCain was a strong enough campaigner to beat Mrs. Clinton, contrasting him with Mr. Giuliani, who he said impressed him as "tough".
It was the humanity of Powell and Pressburger's characters that impressed him as a child, and still does: characters such as Candy are bigger and more enduring than the society that produced them.
We've come to expect this sort of thing from Mr. Leone, whose best westerns, including "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "A Fistful of Dollars," are very personal, very Italian meditations on American movies that impressed him as a child.
One of those people is James Llewellyn, 63, a retired judge who said Mr. Edwards had impressed him in his courtroom as a plaintiff's lawyer.
"I am tremendously impressed by him as an individual and what he stands for".
"The people who had been very devoted to him and to his talent, and admired him enormously, were not necessarily as impressed by him as he changed," said David Foster, who represented Mr. Haimovitz at Columbia Artists Management in the early 1990's and is now the president of ICM Artists.
"I donated to Cy Vance's campaign because I was and remain extremely impressed by him as a person of impeccable integrity, as a brilliant lawyer and as a public servant with creative ideas and tremendous ability," Kasowitz wrote in an e-mailed statement.
Barcelona's public pursuit of their former trainee has left Arsenal less than impressed - as will the pictures of Fabregas being bundled into a Barca shirt by his Spain team-mates during last night's celebrations in Madrid.
