After he'd reeled off the names, dates and more impressive qualities of the horses which secured his 1,000th, 1,500th and 2,000th wins over the jumps, McCoy nodded intently.
The awards are all the more impressive considering the quality of the competition.
Not quite up to Ford's mark, but even more impressive considering the quality of the teams he had pitched for.
"If you look at the transition between PlayStation 2 and PS3 and the launch titles on the latter machine, then look at the launch titles for PS4, I think you'll see a much more impressive leap in quality," he says.
That's as maybe, but one of its more impressive and yet unsettling qualities is that the diatribe was delivered in an American accent.
Elders are highly respected citizens in the Native Community and usually have a vast knowledge of the traditional methods and ways of their peoples and learning & hearing their stories and words can help in making higher quality and more impressive arts & crafts - and in your case pieces of jewellery.
Still more impressive, considering all this, is the quality of the wine.
Interiors and exteriors are all of a piece, and give the film a giant, intimate-epic quality that is more impressive than any CGI, although some of the most startling effects must surely have been created, or at least assisted, digitally.
But the more impressive thing about those 148 games is the quality of the performances he produced.
If it lacks the imaginative resonance of Ballard's other works, it more than makes up for this by the impressive quality of its matter-of-fact reporting.
