Sentence examples for slightly impressed from inspiring English sources

This is for the purposes of gaining a mate or more likely, eliciting a slightly impressed confusion from someone they will never meet.

It's utter tosh, but it's hard not to be ever so slightly impressed by a sequence that drops a parachuting tank out of an aeroplane and allows our heroes to machine-gun enemy fighters from the vehicle's open turret.

He gives her a quick lesson on how to pass a polygraph at which point Ellen, probably slightly impressed, wonders why he knows so much.

Investors were slightly impressed adding 0.8%, or 22 cents, to $27.80.

His lectures are laced with enough buzzwords, and his logic is just serpentine enough to leave his viewers impressed and slightly baffled — I'm a little lost here, but this guy is bringing it old style!

"I pointed out that there's no free burgers, which distressed him slightly, but he was impressed with the facilities we've got.

"About 9,000 words," I said, exaggerating slightly, wanting to impress him.

I was slightly taken aback, but also impressed with her audacity.

No one meeting the political columnist Kirsty Milne ("It's pronounced Keersty") for the first time, as I did on joining the New Statesman in 1994, could fail to come away less than deeply impressed, if perhaps slightly frightened.

I was less impressed with a slightly dry and grainy piece of prime rib ($17 for 16 ounces) and a somewhat gristly 16-ounce shell steak ($20) that was less than moist.

"We were impressed with the quirky, slightly eccentric things they were doing," said Huw Gott, an owner of the restaurant.