What's the difference between impeccable and impressive?

Impeccable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.
  • (n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So when I tell you that Gibson picked me up in his car from my hotel in Vancouver, so I didn’t even have to get a taxi – and indeed that he was impeccably hospitable and generous over the ensuing 24 hours – you might think: “How awfully convenient that this lifelong hero of Beauman’s, whom he is clearly desperate to be friends with, should happen to be a really nice guy.” Yes, I agree, it is awfully convenient, but sometimes things just turn out that way.
  • (2) The naval confrontation was the most serious incident between the two navies since 2009, when Chinese ships and planes repeatedly harassed the US ocean surveillance vessel USNS Impeccable in the South China Sea.
  • (3) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Stylish neckwear The design of The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps Anderson’s most ambitious effort yet and, true to impeccable form, the neckwear is not found wanting.
  • (4) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
  • (5) 2007 Branson confirms his impeccable timing, selling 125 Megastores – the heirs of his original modest Oxford Street venture – to Zavvi for £1.
  • (6) But the interesting thing about Ronson is that for all his celebrity friends, his manners are consistently impeccable, whomever he happens to be speaking to.
  • (7) Villanova head coach Jay Wright said it “was one of the great college basketball games we’ve ever been a part of.” The immaculately tailored and impeccably polite 54-year-old has been in charge of the Wildcats since 2001 and this was his first final.
  • (8) Alongside ragas played by the pukka sarod player Wajahat Khan and the impeccable santoor player Shivkumar Sharma is a CD by the slightly less acclaimed Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi.
  • (9) Even the normally impeccable David Silva overhit a pass, which happens about as often as his side lose at home.
  • (10) Head of Sky News John Ryley said: "Ian's credentials are impeccable.
  • (11) While the hosts went on to trim a growing deficit to 3-1 with an impeccably directed drive from Darren Fletcher, that simply galvanised City.
  • (12) This makes possible an impeccable bridge-shaped design for the main part of the dentures, with wide-open inter-implant rincing areas.
  • (13) Yesterday's government announcements – impeccably trailed, as so often, by the scarily efficient coalition communications strategists – were designed to press the feelgood buttons of Britain's rail commuters.
  • (14) "While Ryan has impeccable character and no previous history, unfortunately, because of the process we have to maintain confidentiality and are not able to discuss it any further, but we are confident that he will ultimately be exonerated," he said.
  • (15) But for me, Mad Men reigns because it's done all of this work so impeccably that it almost doesn't matter where this final season goes.
  • (16) Bac Sierra, in an impeccable suit and tie, was right behind them every day, in the first of three rows of benches usually full of friends and supporters.
  • (17) Not for one second did he behave with anything other than impeccable manners, humour and grace and a desire to collaborate on an entirely even playing field.
  • (18) Despite an impeccable track record as an economist and policymaker, Summers remains widely associated with the period of laissez-faire economic policy-making that led up to the banking crash and his decision to step aside on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the crisis shows how raw the politics remain in Washington.
  • (19) Her journalistic credentials are impeccable; a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford, followed by a spell as a Panorama researcher, then as a reporter on Newsnight, before graduating to the studio.
  • (20) But there is one American whose green credentials are often seen as impeccable - Al Gore.

Impressive


Definition:

  • (a.) Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
  • (a.) Capable of being impressed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate accumulation response was less impressive in glomeruli than the guanylate cyclase response in IMCD tissue.
  • (2) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (3) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (4) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (5) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (6) Personal experience is recorded with two cases and the positive impressions of this operation.
  • (7) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (8) It’s the small margins that have cost us.” There is more to it than that, of course, and Rooney gave the impression he had been hard on himself since the Uruguay game.
  • (9) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
  • (10) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
  • (11) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
  • (12) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
  • (13) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
  • (14) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (15) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
  • (16) The results obtained by combined superficial freezing and intralesional stibogluconate injection were much more impressive than those obtained by each of the two modalities when used alone.
  • (17) Findings and impressions of a member of a British medical support group who toured the health services in newly independent Mozambique in September 1975.
  • (18) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
  • (19) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
  • (20) Two recently reported large scale clinical surveys support the impression that the new non-ionic low osmolality iodinated radiographic contrast media are indeed significantly safer for intravascular use than conventional agents.