The brain itself does not fossilise, but the inside of the cranium retains an impression of its contours.
The heavy white paper stock retains an impression of each pen stroke, resulting in an incised, dappled surface texture.
I retain a vague impression of lives of the saints and other stories of miracles and apparitions along with devotional and theological literature.
In practice, smaller screens require a larger stereo baseline to provide more disparity as a fraction of the image width to retain a good impression of depth.
But he did not seem to be able to retain any impression of anything for more than a blink.
It is subjected to heavy pressures in a press at a moderately high temperature to ensure that it dries; it retains an intaglio impression of the relief surface of the type form and is placed against the inside wall of a curved casting box into which a lead alloy is injected.
In my selfconscious, preteen, pupal stage, I moved away from Nutwood to Bunty and Mandy annuals, of which I retain a predominantly pink collective impression of breathless stories about ponies and Victorian orphans nursing wounded squirrels back to health.
Over recent years the BOA, like the Football Association, has worked hard to overcome the residual impression that British sporting institutions retain a certain arrogance.
Hardly anyone who has listened to him speaking about the Oklahoma of his boyhood can have failed to come away with the impression that it retains an exceptional influence upon his outlook, and that he continues to harbor an affection for the region which far exceeds what people ordinarily feel for distant places in which they were raised.
"I suppose it is true to say there will always be people who don't know me, people who don't know anybody that I know, who will retain the impression that I am some sort of very weird character indeed who is probably best avoided," he said.
