At least, that's what people like to grumble; sometimes, though, the impression is actually accurate.
On the whole, though, the impression is of, say, a shrunken Clio, rather than something really special.
Overall, though, the impression is one of a fairly random selection with the makings of something that could have had a more powerful effect if the choice of works and their installation were more focused.
Of course, though, that impression is contradicted by a large body of other opinion surveys and exit polls taken over the past two years.
The emphasis was firmly on fitness though: "My initial impression was that it's a new wearable fitness device to rival a Nike Fuelband or Fitbit Flex — a smartphone companion rather than a smartphone alternative," wrote journalist Christina Farr.
That impression was wrong, though, because a few million absentee and mail ballots had not yet been counted out West.
The overall impression was good though: The high cost of buying and running high-end VR headsets makes them inaccessible to many people, and the Rift in particular is relentlessly focused on gaming.
It is the sort of house in which one might expect to come upon human remains or the makings of a mail bomb, though the impression is immediately dispelled by Howatt himself — a gray-haired Geppetto type with silver glasses on the end of his nose.
In interviews, Dr. Schilling -- Brother Schilling in correspondence -- seems a polite, gentle man with pacifist and environmentalist beliefs and a sincere passion for his religion, though the impression is knocked somewhat off kilter by his quick wit and the accent that lingers from his Queens childhood.
State-based political experts from both parties said that Colorado remains a purple state, leaning neither right nor left, even though the impression is that its population growth from 4 million to 5 million over the past decade, combined with the trend of the last three presidential elections, might suggest it is starting to slide away from center right and toward center left.
Stability has not been a characteristic of legal information systems though the dominant impression is to the contrary.
