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Definition of impressive:

  • (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony"
  • (adjective) producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello";

Sentence Examples:

Here stands the impressive ruin, with the stagnant waters of its old-time moat still surrounding the towering keep and shattered walls.

The running of a big handicap at a Metropolitan track is an impressive event, even to the man who knows nothing of horses.

Though he was shy, he felt occasionally impelled to step forward, to make himself impressive, to collect hearers and appear on a stage.

Every thing that could make the warning impressive, dignity in the sufferer, solemnity in the proceeding, was found in this case.

What an impressive testimony is this to the sameness of our nature through every age and the immortal perseverance of its holier affections!

There is something calm and impressive about genuine indignation, while scolding is apt to become nagging and to arouse contempt in the child.

Here I am struck with the text of an impressive epitaph, and there I see the delicate and elaborate workmanship of a skillful master.

It is also remarkable for its large and impressive style, its rich command of words, and the lofty beauty of its diction.

This sight proves so impressive that Dante sinks to his knees, fervently praying justice may indeed reign on earth as in heaven.

Yet his prosaic face, when animated, gave an impressive sense of that attribute which seemed to emanate from the whole man: power.

The timber grew on hillsides, and was very lofty and impressive; and the tropical undergrowth grew tall, rank, and impenetrable.

And these descriptions are conceived in terms which will appear in no small degree impressive, even to the modern reader of an English translation.

If all suggestion of a program is taken away, the symphony still remains intelligible and impressive by its harmonious expression of feeling.

Dinner, served, out of compliment to their transatlantic visitor, in the great banqueting hall, was to Quest especially a most impressive meal.

In that which happened on the following night, making the fifth in the series, an impressive incident varied the monotony of horrors.

The memory of beautiful lives is a benediction, softened and made more rich and impressive by the sorrow which their departure caused.

The house remained quiet, however, with that impressive quietness which sobers the heart at such times, and I could not do this.

There is something very impressive about the quiet, self-reliant, unrecorded hardihood of the class of which this man was an excellent type.

It is said that Bach intended to introduce four themes into it and to bring it to an impressive conclusion by inverting them all.

Finely carved heads of lions, one at each corner of the bier, with the claws to match below, complete the impressive monument.

The shadow of the great events so soon to follow was creeping over us, giving earnestness and impressive solemnity to all hearts.

The interior, with its fine Nave and Aisles, is impressive, especially as you look from the center down towards the West end.

Not long afterward he had disappeared in the tangle of greenery, and over the woodland there settled a deep and impressive silence.

Able and impressive as the speeches may be, there is little in them but philanthropy and arithmetic, neither of which is politics.

It is the state of feeling which shrinks from associating the touching and impressive solemnities of burial with the profits of trade.

The facts of her education, although superficially not so multitudinous as those of Alice Paul, are even more impressive in point of international quality.

Her letters are generally more varied, more lively and impressive, more replete with interesting facts and details, than those of our sex.

Potter, a spirited and impressive equestrian statue of Washington, his work has become more and more identified with sculpture in its relation to architecture.

At this point it spans a lateral valley in a triple series of arches, rendered perhaps more impressive by a breakage in the middle.

This one event, with the impressive spectacle of the parties in such close juxtaposition, seemed almost to render every previous suspicion conclusive.

And perhaps the most impressive thing about it was the mysterious repose and utter self-possession that sat on thrones in every feature.

The rising and falling slides combined form the circumflex, or wave, which is a very impressive and significant modification of the voice.

There was a certain dignity about the man when he spoke, that, despite his ragged clothing and miserable habitation, was impressive.

Upon detailed descriptions of these uncertain incidents I do not venture, individually so trivial, but taken all together so impressive and so insolent.

The interior is impressive in its splendid proportions and graceful details, and of especial beauty are the Perpendicular arches inserted in the nave.

She was still young; but the fine impressive imprint of existence was upon her features, and the insipid freshness had departed.

It was slow, emphatic, and impressive, a long way off and not loud, but against the background of quietness, very marked.

One man excels in forcible arguments, another in the lucid array of facts; one is impressive and impassioned, another is quiet but circumspect.

As a speaker and lecturer he was very pleasing, neither impressive nor eloquent, and yet interesting from his earnestness and vivacity.

It was he, you know, that shaped the rude burlesque of a coarser age into the impressive reverential drama that we saw yesterday.

A chorus, of warm harmonies and a remarkably beautiful and unexpected ending, is next; after which is a somber, but impressive alto solo.

Around it are mossy spaces, beds of sedge, and scattered alpine flowers, which soften a little the fierce aspect of this impressive scene.

Little could be added to the dignity and solemn majesty, the right proportions and impressive simplicity, of this massive Norman nave.

No theatrical scene was ever designed in a happier taste, or unfolded itself to admiring beholders with a more sudden and impressive effect.

When a thing is cleverly said he is satisfied, and he cannot understand why his impressive statements should fail to convince and convert.

The longer one remains on a warship, either as a member of the crew or as a guest, two things become more and more impressive.

Mr Francis, the elder, was in his fortieth year, his figure slender and delicate, his eye piercing, and his manner impressive.

It has a central Union Square from which fine streets diverge, and here is located the impressive State House, modelled after the Parthenon.

Not far from this he found a still more singular and impressive shaft, whose poetical symmetry caused him to name it "Tennyson's Monument".

On the contrary, it was the greatest boon to the sick in the world's history, and he produced an impressive bulk of testimonials.

Priority and Simultaneity, in this direct and primary sense, are among the clearest and most impressive notions of the human mind.

Still more impressive must the theater be, when moonlight has shed her revealing mystery over the terraces of this forsaken garden.

"You may thank your stars I've come back tonight," he said, looking up from under his dropped head, sulkily, trying to be impressive.

I was present at the funeral next day, when the ceremony was most impressive, every one behaving with the utmost decorum.

The big hallway with its plaster statuary and tiled floor was quite impressive as, also, were the classrooms which he glimpsed.

One evening Liszt was speaking in an impressive tone of the merits of the Jesuits, and Ritter's inopportune smiles appeared to offend him.

There is a certain tone of modest manliness pervading all the little facts which I have looked through which I found remarkably impressive.

My own most impressive visions, however, were those of silent wakefulness, and were connected with the morrow and the "Flying Cloud."

And if that was what the apparition meant to portend it could not have intimated it by a more noble and impressive behavior.

And then, turning to the Dutch, in a speech equally impressive, they warned them not to irritate the Indians by unjust treatment.

Prince Leopold's voice is of very fine tone, and gentle; and its articulation exceedingly clear, accurate, and impressive, without the slightest affectation.

The atmosphere of the gorgeous snow-clad peaks and impressive chasms served to heighten still further the intensity of Selma's frame of mind.

There was an impressive silence, until Colonel Barrington glanced at Winston, who still stood quietly impassive at the foot of the table.

Our ship-building industry has attained respectable and even impressive proportions; but our shipping, wherever brought into competition with foreign ships, has vanished.

Altogether he presented a most impressive sight, and his young classmates were duly impressed by his huge size and evident physical strength.

There is a distinctness of aim, a tenacity of purpose, a resolution in execution about the Fenian attack upon the police van which is very impressive.

When the third and most impressive of these astonishing productions came into the hands of the public, the writer was no more.

The philosophic or theological conception of a monotheistic deity does not, in fact, seem to lend itself at any time to impressive artistic representation.

Its lines were severe and that the building was inspired by a genius is hard to believe, though in general it is undeniably impressive.

He was a large and muscular young man, deeply tanned, with shoulders of impressive thickness, an aquiline nose, and dark, reflective eyes.

The ruins are situated amid scenery of impressive beauty, and command a view of land and water as far as the island of Mull.

Its most impressive confirmation is to-day furnished by art, above all else by actual representations on the boards that typify the world.

The muffled drums, the draped flags, the drooping banners, the tens of thousands of solemn faces, made the sight an impressive one.

He paused, well satisfied with the sound of his voice, and evidently thinking that he had said something very weighty and impressive.

Those commonplaces, however, are often made very impressive by the lofty, the magisterial, the imperial manner of the preacher in treating them.

Generally he comes with correcting fact or enlightening principle, and it is seldom that his matter and words are not both impressive.

It seemed as if all the elements combined to make impressive for the girls this, their first experience of a thunderstorm in the Rockies.

Then the dew began to settle, calling up the drowsy odors of the pines, and an impressive stillness pervaded the mountain solitude.

It was almost too hot to talk, though the silence that brooded over the little gap in the forest was unpleasantly impressive.

For an interval Ann did not reply, gave no sign that she had heard, and Nora repeated her query with impressive slowness.

Besides an impressive face and figure he brought to the pulpit a ripe scholarship, an almost perfect English style, and an uncommonly vigorous personality.

There was quite a nice little organ and the whole congregation joined devoutly in the hymns; altogether the service was most impressive.

Among the glorious objects which the telescope reveals, the most impressive is that of the starry heavens in a clear dark night.

It was but another tribute to his power, and he exulted in the natural accessories that rendered this final scene so impressive.

The impressive pantomime at the bridge was in order to ascertain whether his bosom companion, Dick Little, had passed on before him.

The emperors themselves usually consulted diviners before their own accession; and their veto on divination for other people was thus not impressive.

The theoretic teachings of the first two periods were successfully translated by the Roman Stoics in an impressive way into practical observations.

Municipal mismanagement is unfortunately not exclusive to Europe; and my editor gave me examples of it in Montreal which were impressive without being novel.

The treatment takes place in as impressive surroundings as possible, and at times a priest is called in to anoint the patient with oil.

Man has awakened from his long lethargy and self-deception, and he demands with impressive unanimity to be restored to his imperishable rights.

At the age of twenty-one the squire became a knight, being then introduced to the order of knighthood by a peculiar and impressive service.

They were impressive letters, splendidly written, with a sort of grim humor about them, expressing his passionate affection and venting his despair.

And yet there are times, just as in the case of Karl Moor, when Ferdinand's rhetoric becomes impressive from sheer titanic force.

The interior Roman vaulting, formed by myriad trusses, is similarly impressive in form and scale to the interiors of renowned existing Basilicas.

It is impressive to observe how the human mind has arrived at the same form of expression in two such historically unconnected regions.

In Korea this is the most impressive of all ways of demonstrating the wrath of the nation, and it greatly embarrassed the Court.

The edifices themselves were not, indeed, very impressive, but the history of their origin made them available as the fulcrum for old dreams.

The words were no doubt inspired by the impressive speech of Chatham, which is now an imperishable part of the history of England.

The finer parts of scripture, as the Book of Job and the Psalms, are immeasurably more impressive in the Welsh than English language.

Van Buren then advanced to the front of the platform, and with impressive dignity read in a clear, distinct voice his inaugural address.