The Stoics insist that the cognitive impression not only "arises from what is and is stamped and impressed in accordance" with the thing from which it arises, but also that it is "such as could not arise from that which is not".
Yes, he left an impression – not on my skin, but under it.
Questioned on the subject, she retorted: "I don't have that impression, not now, not ever".
But that's just an impression, not the kind of careful measurement used by Poole and his fellow researchers.
And when Anna 2 steals a baby (Envy), it's her inefficiency that makes the impression, not her immorality.
And those are his real eyes, with real light dancing in them – not an artist's impression, not a painterly flourish.
It translated as a lack of charisma, an impression not helped by his reserved manner and slightly nasal voice.
Vasari marvelled that the animals in the picture were "truly natural and almost alive", an impression not diminished by time.
The narrator, Frank, is a doctor, but, to judge from our first impression, not a good one.
The first volume won a Grammy Award, and the feat made a durable impression, not least on the composer himself.
The interested reader could perhaps cobble together the results of a dozen studies, but that would provide an impression, not a result.
