(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.
Stroke
Definition:
(imp.) Struck.
(v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
(v. t.) Power; influence.
(v. t.) Appetite.
(v. t.) To strike.
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(3) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(4) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(5) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(6) Five late strokes were ipsilateral (1.8%) and six were contralateral (2.1%) to the operated carotid artery.
(7) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(8) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(9) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
(10) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
(11) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(12) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
(13) These are risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
(14) Stroke was the cause of 2 and congestive heart failure the cause of 4 deaths.
(15) Combined clinical observations, stroke volume measured by impedance cardiography, and ejection fractions calculated from systolic time intervals, all showed significant improvement in parallel with CoQ10 administration.
(16) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(17) During surgical stimulation cardiac index increased in group A due to an increase in heart rate but remained below control in group B, while stroke volume index was reduced in both groups throughout the whole procedure.
(18) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
(19) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(20) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.