Natasha Walter's A Quiet Life (Borough) is based on the figure of Melinda Marling, wife of the Cambridge spy Donald Maclean: it's a troubling, understated novel, almost hypnotic in the completeness with which it inhabits the mind of its impressionable central character.
One idea was to set a novel in a cultish Christian community where a group of young, impressionable, largely female characters, would find themselves at the mercy of a charismatic but menacing male guru.
Turns out, Max wasn't the impressionable, lost soul kind of character Benedikt painted.
In John Simm's Cal McCaffrey (whose very name is enviable) and Kelly Macdonald's Della, the young and impressionable have the sort of characters that make you want to be a hotshot reporter.
These begin at a time when the main character, Billy Abbott, is an impressionable, bra-wearing boy in his young teens.
Del F. Cowie of Exclaim! observes a "transformation" by Lamar's character "from a boisterous, impressionable, girl-craving teenager to more spiritual, hard-fought adulthood, irrevocably shaped by the neighbourhood and familial bonds of his precarious environment".
'Exposure' is defined as the number of times a viewer is exposed to a message, whereas 'power' is defined as a food advertiser's technique to target young and impressionable consumers through the use of promotional characters and premium offers (1, 6).
(She doesn't read novels they help!) She's a kind of blank, really, partly because of her upbringing, and partly because of her character, which is a very interesting one deeply impressionable and receptive, but not forceful, not able to carve its own way.
But in Jesse Eisenberg's ever capable and always lovable hands (a bit of a reprise of his Adventureland role), the character seems at times softer and more impressionable than the real Zuckerberg.
Miley is a terrible role model for young, impressionable punctuation.
