Banks were the other deep pockets; they also wanted to make modern impressions, for example Clorindo Testa's spectacular Bank of London in Buenos Aires.
Stevie Wishart's Eurostar: A journey in sound between cities (2016), the evening's most experimental work, explored improvisation using vocalise, with whooshes, whines and a whole variety of modern loco impressions: motion in poetry.
While neither as unbending nor as pure as the Egyptians, the Sumerians achieved a consistency of style that operated over a range of media: sculpture, incised relief, inlay and the incised cylinder seals, whose cartoonlike narratives are made visible here with enlarged photographs and modern clay impressions.
They may have played Save All Your Kisses For Me by Brotherhood of Man over the public address before kick-off but, on the field, the new-look Tigers made a thoroughly modern, up-tempo impression.
But the Modern-design-dominant impression doesn't hold.
To look at these paintings is to encounter a Victorian Britain it feels like we never knew - a Britain of suburban idylls, modern moments, sensual impressions.
What emerges from the chaos is a vivid impression of modern life: Morse has plenty of emotional baggage, and by way of sprightly anecdote and frank confession, these reviews become essays in self-revelation.
From the £100,000, Swarovski crystallised "do" uniting the Celebrity Big Brother contestants who met just a few weeks before, we get the impression that modern marriage is about all-consuming passion... and passionate consumerism.
The effect has been to cordon off all gay experience that predates the advent of psychology and to confirm an impression that modern gay history begins with the absurdly inflated figure of Oscar Wilde.
The best of the waka poets in the courtly tradition was Kagawa Kageki, a poet of exceptional skill, though he is less likely to leave an impression on modern readers than the unconventional Ōkuma Kotomichi or Tachibana Akemi, both of whom died in 1868, during the first year of the Meiji era.
