Word: impressively
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...music show on TV knows what he means, but the condescending tone quickly becomes grating. And in fact there was something tragic about the Japanese attempts to be "civilized"; for the harder they tried, the more ridiculous they seemed in the eyes of many of those they sought to impress. It also earned Japan an unfair reputation of being a nation of kitschy copycats. This left a lot of bruised feelings...
...eminent writer Tanizaki Junichiro argued in those years of intense nationalism that foreign loan words, mostly from Chinese, should be purged from the Japanese language. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, such popular American cultural products as baseball and Hollywood movies were forbidden. This policy was not designed to impress foreign views of Japan, but was in line with official propaganda, touted all over the Japanese empire, that the Japanese spirit and Japanese culture were superior to anything the West might have to offer. It was the ultimate reaction to earlier efforts to import Western civilization...
...could see the peaks of the mountains and then a white belt. I thought, 'That's odd--I've never seen that before.'" The white haze made the small white hull of the Ehime Maru hard to distinguish. Waddle did not linger, though, since he was eager to impress his guests. He ordered the ship to dive deep and then rocket back up to the surface. In retrospect he concedes he was pushing ahead too quickly. "I didn't give the men the time they needed to do their jobs. I was so confident in my abilities and what...
Even as the city of Beijing painted its grass green earlier this year to impress visiting inspectors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement wasted in prisons for the crime of practicing their beliefs. One hundred fifty of the movement’s leaders have already died in police custody. Meanwhile, China continues to try its citizens in lightning-fast court proceedings, executing them for minor offenses like tax evasion and afterwards harvesting their organs without donor consent. Forced labor is common. Tibetans remain oppressed. And hitting closer to home, the Chinese...
...other hand, the administration's position may also put the U.S. on a collision course with Europe. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer's promise that "the administration is committed to working with our friends and allies on a plan that includes developing nations as well as developed nations" will impress no one. Indeed, on the issue of global warming right now, the U.S. may find that friends and allies are few and far between...