Word: impressively
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...found myself, once again, in a crowded mass of well-dressed girls, huddled outside of a final club. Yet, this day, I donned my cute outfit (sans heels as we were instructed on the invitation), not to win the attention of boys, but to impress the club officers whose judgment sealed my fate...
...bedroom deep at night, I always seem to glimpse Hui’s image around the corner, as if about to come forward and pat on my shoulder while waving handsomely at me and greeting me with his huge yet absolutely uncontrived signature smile. Hui does not impress upon first sight, and it takes time for one to look beyond a plain appearance and truly appreciate the many thousand little wonderful things about his personality. His mild temper, sharp wit, indescribable humor, as well as an almost passionate earnestness, all gradually laid solid foundation to countless cherished friendships around campus...
...playing a bad guy playing a good guy. (He had a similar role, of the charming swine, in The Talented Mr. Ripley.) What's true about Colin's nature is that he's the man on the rise and on the make, with a practiced smile that can impress the cops and please the ladies. When he meets Madolyn, the shrink, he suavely spouts this apercu: "Freud said the Irish were the only people who were impervious to psychoanalysis." (The "impervious" is a lovely touch - it tells you Colin has rehearsed this line in his head - as is the oenophile...
...question was, of course, Sweden’s Jens Lekman.Wearing a silly fedora and telling the stories-behind-the-songs in order to make everyone feel welcome (a particular favorite was a tale about being roped into pretending to be the boyfriend of a lesbian in order to impress her parents), Jens and his band of Swedish beauties rollicked through plenty of delightful little ditties before leaving all too soon.There was a rumor that he played some songs on an acoustic guitar in a park somewhere in the city, later on. What a sweetheart.Some other bands also played.Word was that...
Above all else, stop trying so hard to impress people. You can stop wearing your “Varsity Mathlete” jacket from high school, and there is no need to talk about how “chill” those four years were while doing curls in the MAC. Academically, you won’t impress your professors or peers by asking an inordinate number of questions. I saw this little exchange between a professor and a freshman the other...