The impression deepened at the first instance of what would be a recurrent experience, when a director trailed her to the lift.
The sight of rows of terra-cotta heads, lined up as if sprouting from the earth, makes a powerful impression, deepened by the knowledge that most of the sculptures were field-collected in Africa in the 1950s and '60s by the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
This impression only deepens with the discovery that there are two of him on Twitter: @RepRyanZinke, the congressman, and @RyanZinke, the citizen.
And this impression is deepened as you reflect on both the content of his music and his methods of making it.
The faux ruins also suggest rotting military machines, an impression only deepened by Joe Bradley's stark paintings of big black, five-pointed stars and an assemblage of dried branches, heavy sausages and muddy boots by Kim Jones, the set for mud-caked performances during the show that evoke his service in the Vietnam War.
If the impression of disaster deepens, public support could swiftly "degrade", as NATO might put it.
That impression seemed to deepen with reports from Human Rights Watch this week that the bodies of 53 pro-Qaddafi victims had been found in newly liberated Surt — Colonel Qaddafi's hometown and final, vainglorious redoubt — in circumstances suggesting summary execution.
There was powerful questioning about Mr Blair's tendency to offer one message of unflinching military solidarity for an American audience but another message of indefatigable diplomacy and wider Middle Eastern concerns for a British one – an impression which was deepened by the former prime minister's lamentable recent interview.
Mr. Bush's team, on the other hand, still smarting from the deepening impression that the president lost the debate and that he struck some viewers as peevish and annoyed, is hoping Mr. Cheney will reverse the perception and set the president up to put in a better performance on Friday night, when the next debate will take place in St . Louisin a town hall setting.
Their effort to disenfranchise poor, black, Hispanic, and student voters in many states deepens the impression that Romney's remarks about the "forty-seven per cent" were a matter not of "inelegant" expression, as he later protested, but of genuine conviction.
