(n.) The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still more impressionable is, however, the regression of the mortality due to cardiovascular diseases which took place during recent years in connection with the changes of the living habits in several countries of the earth.
(2) But is there truly a risk of an impressionable boy drawing from his example the moral that it’s not so bad to serve 30 months for rape because the Football Association will support your right to play afterwards?
(3) It is confused and fragmentary, pulled in every direction by the shifting winds of impressionism.
(4) We can only assume the MPAA considers the lives of queer old people as a threat to young, impressionable minds.
(5) In the other patient, the expanding cavum was discovered because a routine skull X-ray after minor head trauma revealed marked impressiones digitatae.
(6) Essentially a short story writer, he used simplicity and impressionism to portray sympathetically the psychology of the common man.
(7) The works Bührle bought form one of the most important 20th century private collections of European art, with French Impressionism and post-Impressionism constituting the core.
(8) I also was once a bullied, impressionable teenager.
(9) Tallulah Wilson , a 15-year-old who killed herself in 2012, was caught up in a "toxic digital world", according to her mother, while the parents of Sasha Steadman , a 16-year-old who died from a suspected drug overdose in January after looking at self-harm sites, said her "impressionable mind" had been filled "with their damning gospel of darkness".
(10) "From their point of view, targeting these particularly impressionable and idealistic people is seen as a tactic.
(11) Seen as “dens of iniquity and immorality”, portals of decadence, they are an easy sell as a target to impressionable young extremist by more senior militants.
(12) Having previously known little about impressionism, he had arrived in Paris in time to see the eighth (and last) impressionist exhibition.
(13) But one is most impressionable in one’s teens; and, as a notoriously late developer who failed his 11-plus, I was about 16 when books really started to affect me profoundly.
(14) All three had read the book, and they were young and impressionable.
(15) But Woman A's barrister, Jonathan Fuller QC, said his client was an impressionable 17-year-old when she met Watkins for the first time.
(16) But we agreed on impressionism and classical music."
(17) It's an aspiration that is easily sold, he says, because the target market is "a highly impressionable younger audience."
(18) I was quite impressionable and I'd just say yes to everything because I wanted to keep my job.
(19) Since childhood is such an impressionable age all students were made aware of the need for proper oral hygiene to minimize the incidence of caries among them.
(20) Impressionable teenagers like Mannise joined student demonstrations, hurling stones at the police as protest spread across what had long been regarded as the region’s most tranquil and moderate country.
Poet
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
(4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
(6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
(9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
(10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
(11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
(12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
(13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
(14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
(16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
(17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
(18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
(19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
(20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.