But the logic of the sanctions did not impress even a local Burmese restaurant owner on the road from Mandalay to China.
But boasting about this did not impress even the neighbor Dakotans.
Home sales are rising, but Bill McBride isn't impressed: "Even with a 20 percent-plus increase this year, 2012 will be the third or fourth lowest year since the Census Bureau started tracking new home sales in 1963".
There are one or two underlying doubts, too: they also have not always impressed, even in victory.
You've been doing nothing all these years, how delightful a find you are!" Unless he's keen on living with lazybones and her unblemished, soft hands, then he won't be impressed even if he were to arrive in such fairytale style!
And that may be right where Mr. Kerry wants young voters, since he is not much for standard charm: not amused but impressed, even a little self-conscious.
Hard not to be impressed, even months into this venture.
Looking up at the mountain in the golden light of late afternoon, it was hard not to be impressed, even moved, by this effort to honor the memory of a people this country once tried mightily to erase.
But an episode this esoteric needs to be taken on its own terms, and even if next week's season finale casts Heaven Sent in a different light, it's difficult not to be begrudgingly impressed even if it left you baffled, if not outright frustrated.
Some were not impressed, and even heckled.
