Word: impressibly
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Says Sindona: "He used the money [I.O.R. earned] to impress the Pope, to promote himself. With me he had every opportunity to propose a deal, to make personal money...
...subject is how a man of a certain integrity (however sleazy his profession) lives in a world that does not set much store by that quality. It is about how such a man orders a meal, talks to a policeman or enters his apartment alone, with no one to impress except his own sense of himself. Constructed out of a thousand persuasive details, Bob is the rarest kind of fantasy figure: the kind you would like to be, of course, but also the kind you think, for just a moment, you could be. If only in the way you light...
...awkward position of pressing for the sanctions in the same week that it authorized negotiations for a one-year extension of the agreement to export grain to the Soviet Union. The fact that the proposal was merely for an extension, rather than a new long-term agreement, did not impress the Europeans. Said Italy's Minister of Industry Giovanni Marcora: "We are expected to sacrifice our interests so that the U.S. does not sacrifice...
...plenty of them wander in and out of Gregory's life. There is a friend who is overstuffed with useless facts ("Did you know when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at 160 miles per hour?" he inquires of a girl he's trying to impress), a headmaster who encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because he has an unmanageable sweet tooth, a ten-year-old sister, precociously wise in the ways of the world, who gives Gregory such good advice as he gets on how to conduct his life. There...
Shallow, a native Bostonian, has witnessed countless Commencements. But he says he's been disappoint with the last couple of Commencements speakers. "Watson was just so-so and Vance didn't impress me that much either." he says The highlight at Commencement for Shallow is the student orations: "I always like those. Some of them really thrust into the administration...