"produce an impression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the effect or influence a particular person, action, or thing has on someone or something else. For example: "His persuasive speech was designed to produce an impression of trustworthiness."
Stationary light bulbs coming on one after the other over the theatre entrance also produce an impression of steady movement.
One of the advantages of the aphorism or pensée is that it can easily produce an impression of depth when it may be only a commonplace pungently expressed.
Visual montage may combine shots to tell a story chronologically or may juxtapose images to produce an impression or to illustrate an association of ideas.
In other forms of nonfictional prose, the meandering fancy of the author may well produce an impression of freedom and of truth to life unattainable by the more carefully wrought novel.
"The richness of the art, the exquisite taste of the vocal part, the excellence of the voices, the justness of the execution, everything in these delightful concerts concurs to produce an impression... from which I am of opinion no heart is secure".
Affection of our sense organs does not produce an impression or image; it occasions a thought.
What is it about their typicality that produces an impression of strangeness?
Seal matrices may be single or double, thus producing an impression on either one or both sides of the wax.
James's narrator eventually reveals that, though Catherine "sometimes produced an impression of insensibility," she was "she was the softest creature in the world".
In the year 1896 H. Becquerel discovered that uranium emits spontaneously a radiation that produces an impression on a photographic plate through a sheet of black paper, and ionises the air.
Given that Moshiri then sold his half of the Arsenal stake back to Usmanov, and used the money received to invest in Everton, this produces an impression that Usmanov may in reality have an interest in the Everton stake, because all the money to buy it originated with him.
