"Very serious and stern," was her first impression of Mr. Bruno, and he was most certainly not her type, remembered Ms. Henry, who is divorced.
"He is open to things, and that gives a feeling of hope to people who have felt left out," said Barbara Thomas, 51, an administrative assistant from Columbia, Md. In a shift of perception that the Vatican clearly hoped would be common on this trip, Ms. Thomas said she had found him "more open, not so stern as what the general impression had been".
And her first impression of him from that "stern" online photo quickly faded.
Freeberg told me that when he first showed people the work, "their impression was that the women looked really stern, and bored, not interested in what they're doing there".
Don't sound too stern or serious, though, or they may get a wrong impression.
Generalizing brutally, you could argue that Hong Kong movies require actors trained to be fluid and funny, while South Korean movies like their male characters stiff and stern, and Mr. Jang doesn't make the same kind of impression in "The Warrior's Way" that his Hong Kong counterparts have in their American movies.
This is obviously just a guess, but one has the impression that erotic drives were defined and constrained by a stern sense of social reality.
In a stern letter to Sony, the three lawmakers also suggested that it take measures "correcting the impression" that coercive questioning paid off.
But the overall impression was still (to quote the Beatles' first manager, Brian Epstein) that of "a stern but fair-minded schoolmaster".
