Sentence examples for impressionable stage from inspiring English sources

These soldiers, dead-eyed and obedient to the Commandant, vary in age from kids to teens and early twenties, but they are all clearly feral and scary as children who have been given guns and trained to obey a father-figure at an impressionable stage.

It was Orwell who celebrated 'good prose' being 'like a window pane', and I think Roth's clarity derives in part from Orwell, whose great books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were published in the Forties, at an impressionable stage of Roth's adolescence.

As children we all go through an impressionable stage and, though real life and the growing-up process teaches us fairly swiftly not to be quite so silly, most of us can still recall a relationship with footballers and their clubs that was simply one of worship.

The latter is particularly important for young people as they are at an impressionable stage in their lives.

Most birds learn to identify their own species by "imprinting" on their parents while their nervous system is still at an impressionable stage, but for brush turkeys (family Megapodiidae) that's not an option.

Polymorphous, paranoiac, confused, yet intensely imaginative, the thinking layer of Earth that is largely the unexpected product of animal consciousness, may now be in its most impressionable stage".

Older children "already developed their own sets of morals and values" and seeing aggression "wouldn't affect them so much", although the "impressionable" teenage stage was mentioned.

My point: Children are quite impressionable.

Her serene performance as an impressionable -- and ultimately corrupted -- shut-in is winning her the stage notices of her career.

Two fathers who want their offspring, an inhibited young man and an impressionable young woman, to fall in love and marry, have concocted a plan: they hire the mysterious stranger El Gallo to stage an attempted rape.

No, no, I reply to my fellow adults, many of whom I've found far more ill-informed and impressionable (not in a good way) than their younger citizen counterparts, each and every one of us, at every age and stage, is both a citizen-in-the-making and a citizen made at one and the same time.