I had an impression of souls in limbo in some undefined film noir realm between reality and hell and/or heaven.
At 61, Robinson gives the impression of a soul housed uncomfortably in the architecture of its body.
When he vents his fury on the pornographer, it's an utterly horrifying sequence – not only because of the graphic violence, but because Maskell gives an authentic impression of a soul in torment.
Do a funny impression of someone.
But his screechy performance on the Today programme earlier this week did create the impression of a tortured soul who knows his plans are unravelling.
Like many of the voiceovers, it is done in whispery tones, which gives the impression of eavesdropping on someone's soul.
Dequenne, with her heart-shaped face, gives all too convincing an impression of a caved-in soul.
Yet, in one of the last interviews he gave, to The New York Times, he conveyed the impression of a troubled, restless soul, full of self-doubt and more and more ill-at-ease with his spiralling celebrity.
In my book on Keats I'd been especially interested in exploring his life before writing; like several other contemporary Keatsians, I'd long felt that the popular impression of a passively suffering soul, languishing on a bed of lilies without paying any attention to the world around him, was in need of correction.
In the receipt of an impression, the soul is purely passive and the impression reveals not only its own existence, but that also of its cause just as light displays itself and the elements that are in it.
Many of their faces resemble impressions of a tortured soul, formed from vacuum-molded plastic, melted metal or bent and soldered wires.
