Sentence examples for impressions of things from inspiring English sources

We get impressions of things.

For on either interpretation Pyrrho is said to promise ataraxia, the later Pyrrhonists' goal, and to promise it as a result of a certain kind of withdrawal of trust in the veracity of our everyday impressions of things; the connection between these two points aligns Pyrrho with the later Pyrrhonists, and sets him apart from every other Greek philosophical movement that preceded later Pyrrhonism.

But it may also be taken as an ontological comment on the insubstantiality of the world around us; it is things (as opposed to our impressions of things) that are assimilated to stage-sets and the contents of dreams and fantasies.

Tell smooth lies, give impressions of things that he thinks or appears to think that he doesn't think".

It was about 10 30 at night for him -- and the Committee Chairman walked us through his general impressions of things in Afghanistan.

Voters "just get this overall impression of things being out of control, that change hasn't happened.

A film is an act of imagination, a highly individual impression of things -- and sometimes very idiosyncratic.

This gives the composite impression of things in space that is gained by having examined their surfaces and construction from every angle.

You have an impression of things such as the weight and softness of materials, which may or may not match their actual qualities.

His prose style can only accentuate the impression of things long past: it is almost baroque in its winding, hesitating, qualifying, venturing gestures.

Nichols has felt something in the American atmosphere — economic uncertainties, extreme weather, a widespread impression of things sliding out of control — and crystallized it into domestic drama and visual fantasia.