Word: impressively
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...Henry Adams wrote that in the modern world the dynamo had replaced the Virgin as the power that drives history. Were he around today, it is the computer, not the dynamo, that would impress him with its occult powers and emanations of moral force. It enables the mind to ask questions, find answers, stockpile knowledge and devise plans to move mountains, if not worlds...
Similarly, classical record companies trade in a commodity that is aggressively marketed as "highculture", occasionally making condescending gestures to the uninitiate masses in the form of "classical compilations" or "greatest hits" albums. Theirs is the currency of snobbery, calculated to impress rather than to invite...
...that is metaphysics of a sentimental kind. The bullets remain in the bodies, and the dead stay dead. James Sinkler was trying to impress that raw fact upon his younger brother Tyrone, who was 16 years old. "I told him last week. I told him the week before," James Sinkler says. "Life is not like the movies. When you die, you don't come back. Life is so precious...
...clear that, despite winning the ECAC regular-season title, Harvard's lackluster performance during its trip through the North Country didn't impress anyone...
...disconnection from the realities of American life, especially life in New Hampshire, which has been in an economic slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown in the company of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who presumably was brought along to impress the crowds in a way that the President of the U.S. might not. It was not a shrewd piece of media work: Schwarzenegger the Terminator, an action figure out of Hollywood, proclaimed fantasy at a moment when voters had gathered to look for something real -- a little something...