Fear can shut down creativity, as can the pressure to impress.
Feeling pressure to impress Thomas, Williams did so by imitating Thomas's greatest trait.
In Scientology, he always felt a subtle pressure to impress his auditor and then write up a glowing success story.
Wright said he remembered how it felt to be Tejada's age, acclimating to the big leagues, feeling the pressure to impress.
Arnaud Démare is under pressure to impress having ousted fdj.fr team-mate Nacer Bouhanni, multiple Giro d'Italia stage winner, after a dispute within the team.
Nagbe denies that the added dynamism in his play has anything to do with a newfound pressure to impress Jürgen Klinsmann.
The 26-year-old Welshman had been seeking headline unification fights in America and was under pressure to impress an American audience with tonight's fight at the Motorpoint Arena being televised across the Atlantic.
Everybody is feeling the pressure to impress the N.C.A.A. selection committee, whether they are trying to strut for a No. 1 seed or grovel for a No. 12. Kentucky, as the current national frontrunner, is in the first category and having already beaten pesky Vanderbilt in Nashville earlier this season, there would seem to be little drama around the rematch in Lexington (Saturday, noon).
I had jotted down a short "set list" of what to read, but figured that since everybody had just heard a tape of Thurston Moore saying how cool I was, there was really no longer any pressure to impress; I was clearly already being held in high regard by Thurston and thus the rest of the room.
On the basis of the dramatic economic events that have taken place since the last time McCain and Obama came face to face, McCain was under the most pressure to impress, in order to bridge the polling gap that has opened up between himself and his opponent.
