Sentence examples for passing impression from inspiring English sources

They lost to Preston in the play-off final last May, having held a top-four position from early November under Mark Cooper with a poise that was a passing impression of Barcelona.

Bleak, desolate and exceedingly flat: like most people, this was my passing impression of the East Anglian Fens.

The bird itself was expertly roasted and came on a tidy pile of lightly vinegared cabbage which gave a passing impression of sauerkraut.

Ian Harte has not been on best form with his set pieces, although the latest did at least make a passing impression of threat as it fizzed wide.

Politicians have always been vulnerable to this kind of hideous encounter, to prove not only that they have multi-generational appeal, but that they can do a passing impression of a human being.

At our table, which was all white, we were regaled by an elderly couple from Baltimore with a mordant, Midwestern sense of humor; a gawky graduate student and his girlfriend from Regent University, Robertson's Christian college; and a middle-aged couple who gave a passing impression of being completely friendly.

Hodge struts his stuff in bespangled frocks and marabou feathers and even does passing impressions of Piaf and Dietrich.

Then there are the visitors, with their passing impressions: Carlyle, Hardy, Gissing and – least passingly – Swinburne, whose long poem, By the North Sea, strikes a note of Sebaldian gloom: "A land that is lonelier than ruin,/ A sea that is stranger than death".