Sentence examples for purpose of impressing from inspiring English sources

What else can you do when you invite friends to your club for the purpose of impressing them?

This would have been carted across town, at no small risk, for the sole purpose of impressing the foreign visitor.

The trouble with them is that they suffer from a kind of anxious enthusiasm that leads them to imitate something else they have no business copying--except for the purpose of impressing the ignorant--and the result is phony.

By that, he meant that it was undertaken substantially for the purpose of impressing others by showing the amount of money one can afford to waste on space one doesn't need.

The report calls for a de-emphasis of the sheer quantity of academic and extracurricular achievement, and makes explicit what top guidance and independent counselors have been telling their students for years — that it is better to pursue a few interests deeply than to have a laundry list of achievements accomplished for the sole purpose of impressing colleges.

Watching the beatmakers' faces on-stage as their friends dropped bomb after bomb, with the sole purpose of impressing each other, was priceless proof that you're never too good to stop learning from someone else's style.

A term borrowed from social science, now used to refer to liberals who conspicuously express left-wing values, primarily for the purposes of impressing other liberals.

But the  young women still served as Archie's foils (the series is called "Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica," after all) exhibiting few interests outside of those that served the purposes of impressing him. .

Banquets have been a venue for entertainment since ancient times, continuing until the 21st century, when they are still being used for many of their original purposes – to impress visitors, especially important ones (4, 6, 9); to show hospitality (2, 4, 8); as an occasion to showcase supporting entertainments such as music or dancing, or both (2, 3).

In his first fortnight at Sale's Carrington training ground – next door to Manchester City's – his clarity of thought and purpose has impressed fly-half Danny Cipriani.

We must also move away from the idea that exercise is only for a specific short-term purpose but impress the advantages that a lifelong appreciation of physical activity can bring".