The phrase "receive the impression" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the act of perceiving or understanding something, especially through observation or interaction. Example: The artist's work was so striking, it received the impression of awe and wonder from all who viewed it.
I hope that readers of Nora Krug's essay did not receive the impression from my quoted remarks that I found fault with The New Yorker's fact-checking system.
Voters may receive the impression that the film is widely believed to be worthy of Oscar consideration and be encouraged to join the herd, while the talent may intuit that such marketing is everywhere and, compounding the vanity effect, increase their own efforts.
Those who read the popular literature on science and religion, such as Tong's article, may receive the impression that modern physics has refuted the picture of atoms and the void proposed by Democritus and other Greek philosophers millennia ago.
Writer received the impression in Santa Fe that the Indians were almost "pampered".
Writer dropped in at both places & received the impression that the students were dressing more conservatively.
I received the impression of heavy masculine thighs and a blackish scab, before turning away.
The newspaper said that during the first approach, the reporter had received the impression that he was at the wrong address.
As Aristotle describes the process, the sense organ receives "the form of sensible objects without the matter, just as the wax receives the impression of the signet-ring without the iron or the gold".
Over the past weeks, with all the coverage of the most recent Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, King v. Burwell, some people may have received the impression that Obamacare is in serious trouble.
"A few weeks ago, I received the impression that 'The Coast of Utopia' might open in Moscow next April," he said over tea and cookies one afternoon in a book-crammed back office at the theatre.
Kelly's second interview, which had taken place the previous afternoon, had proved inconclusive, but Martin Howard, of the Defence Intelligence staff, who was there, received the impression that Kelly probably was Gilligan's source, even if he had been misrepresented.
