Rhetorically there were some impressive passages relating to equality of opportunity and tackling discrimination (though they sit uneasily with his record in government).
Early on in the novel, Gibbons blithely informs the reader that like Baedeker, she will use a system of asterisks to mark out particularly impressive passages.
Indignation, joy, weariness, sweetness: human beings have felt these emotions before, and their prior expressions well up gorgeously in Gregerson's most impressive passages: Jason had the misfortune to suffer misfortune the third of July.
The most impressive passages in the book are the closest to tragedy, though it becomes clear that a new life can open up on the far side of disgrace.
His most successful verse anthems frequently make use of short, impressive passages for choir alone, as in the evocation of the turtle's voice in My beloved spake and the moving harmonies of "O worship the Lord" toward the end of O sing unto the Lord.
It must have been by chance that he chose the most impressive passages, the most solemnly ecstatic, the ones about, 'the primeval roots of true beauty' and, 'the sons of men and the daughters of women'; but slowly, as he recited them, one realised that he genuinely thought them impure and revolting.
Following the Civil War, however, famed author Harriet Beecher Stowe lived near Jacksonville and traveled up the St. Johns, writing about it with affection: "The entrance of the St . Johnsfrom the ocean is one of the most singular and impressive passages of scenery that we ever passed through: in fine weather the sight is magnificent".
Apart from Clarke and the strike bowlers, Chris Rogers and Steve Smith also completed impressive rites of passage.
Advocates see the move offshore as an impressive rite of passage in the history of an ancient technology.
"Documented," the first-person account by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, trails his impressive campaign for passage of the Dream Act path to citizenship for some of the 11 million immigrants in the United States without legal residency.
