Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shaw visited the set the day production started "to impress the producers with confidence and courage." Conferences between himself and his collaborators thereafter were held in his Whitehall Court home...
...knowledge of art criticism and my command of the written work wouldn't impress a Hottentot, but even I feel justified in crying out in painful protest against the flatulent, inane farce parading in Saturday's Crimson under the pretentious rubric of "Collections and Critiques." I don't mean farce; I mean tragedy. For Fogg's current exhibition of modern French art--Degas, Daumier, Renoir, Picasso--would stir the most rudimentary, untutored aesthetic consciousness. Yet it could not evoke in your criticism even the most backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant...
...Minister of Education Giuseppe Bottai. Indeed, so many Jews of long standing in Italy hold places in or close to the Regime and seem to be such loyal Fascists, that intimates of Il Duce have figured from the first that his anti-Semitism was chiefly a bluffing gesture to impress the Führer and to curry a little favor from Islam to keep the British worried in Palestine...
Able statesmen, like glamor girls, are expert in staging acts to flatter and impress useful admirers. Last September Adolf Hitler staged one of his most effective when he entertained Mussolini in Berlin. Signor Mussolini who, isolated for nearly 15 years in Italy, had come to think of himself as the most potent man in Europe, was shocked into a warmer enthusiasm for his ally when he saw the magnificently trained, well-oiled military machine that Hitler turned out for his inspection. Last week Adolf Hitler, mindful of his other success, decided to play host again, for a similar useful purpose...
This was flattery. What followed was intended to impress Hungary's dictator. In a grand review 117 ships of the German Navy sailed past the Führer and the Regent. Admiral Horthy was then permitted to inspect the brand new, Nazi-rebuilt defenses of the island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, once dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, now again a potent naval base...