'impressionable' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is easily influenced by external impressions. For example: "My teenage daughter is very impressionable, so I'm careful to monitor the type of content she watches online."
The way I figure it, the one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, 'I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.' So this prankster set up poor impressionable Reid and won his bet.
What got me onto this theory was reading that the shoe bomber, a Muslim convert named Richard Reid, had been described by someone who knew him well in England as 'very, very impressionable.' I had already decided that the man was a complete bozo.
"It shows the lure, the lure of this death cult to impressionable youngsters and it's very, very important that we do everything we can to try to safe guard our young people against the lure of this shocking, alien and extreme ideology," he said.
It was argued that access to the media enhanced the reputation and authority of enemies of the state, that extreme views were given wider reach by the media, and that the impressionable would be persuaded by such propaganda.
Tania was, by far, the most naive and impressionable of the five victims.
I knew he was funny but, at the same time, this was the Pope – as an impressionable 12-year-old I was pretty sure mocking him could send you to hell.
The decision not to prosecute came despite comments by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair that any move to charge Ms Moss would take into account her effect on "impressionable young people".
The media will run stories about the effects of video games on the lives of impressionable people.
If I turn away from Bush-like conduct, America's standing will be restored, divisions healed and the world will be in magically better shape.That pitch worked for lots of foreigners, the most impressionable of whom (tsk, Scandinavians) awarded the incoming President Obama the Nobel peace prize on the strength of it.The problem was that foreign policy is easier to critique than to fix.
Here impressionable youngsters can watch awesome animatronic dinosaurs interacting with primitive humans, just as Genesis implies they did, shortly after the beginning of time one Monday morning in 4004BC.The museum's aim is to teach visitors how to answer attacks on the Bible's authority in geology, biology and so on, while providing a "family-friendly experience".
That would drastically cut the number of children who attend Islamic schools and ensure that those who do are of a less impressionable age.
