The phrase "receive an impression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone has gotten an idea, opinion, or feeling about something based on what they have experienced or seen. For example: "As she watched the beautiful sunset, she received an impression of peace and tranquility."
Within space God places matter that in clear contrast to the conception of Aristotle and Averroes, who defined it as privation and as a pure ens rationis, is regarded by Campanella as a physical entity, deprived of form, shape and action, but capable of being extended, divided, united and of assuming any shape, just as wax can receive an impression from any seal.
You receive an impression of cornflower-blue eyes set deep in wrinkly reticulation, her hair white and fine as feathers - a voice rasps: "My name's Ethel Nairn, I'm sorry to intrude but I've come to speak to you about the residents' association".
Colonel White had a theory about how a reporter might receive an unfavorable impression of the camp.
Part of AppNexus's pitch is computing power: an advertiser has to receive an ad impression, analyze it, decide what to bid on it, and decide automatically what ad to show in less than a quarter of a second to avoid slowing down the page-load time.
In order to receive a first impression of the landscape-level distribution of carbon, a map of carbon concentrations in the topsoil was generated.
These days Mr. Robideau, now the president of the Malverne Civic Association, makes sure that the 100 to 150 newcomers a year receive a warm first impression.
In 1898 he married a young woman from Toulouse, Amélie Parayre, and left Paris for a year, visiting London, where he studied the paintings of J.M.W. Turner, and working in Corsica, where he received a lasting impression of Mediterranean sunlight and colour.
In some cases, the successful bidder would then reward them with a secret payment.Cover pricing meant the tendering authority, which could be a local council or other customer, received a false impression of the level of competition and could end up paying inflated prices.
The successful service should result in customers receiving a positive impression and students register for the first time.
Aristophanes' comic portrayal of Socrates is at the same time a bitter critique of him and other leading intellectual figures of the day (the 420s B.C ., but from Plato, Xenophon, and the other composers (in the 390's and later) of "Socratic discourses" (as Aristotle calls this body of writings) we receive a far more favorable impression.
Readers of The New York Times will have received an extremely misleading impression of my book "America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism" from Jonathan Tepperman's review on Dec. 12.
