impress something on/upon someone

Examples of impressed

impressed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Most individuals will fail to be impressed by proposals the efficacy of which can only be established after they have been acted upon.
Despite high rates of war service disability, the benefits of military service, including emotional maturation and skill increases, impressed the researchers more.
Thus, we are not impressed when they take the hypothetical existence of perfect virtual-reality devices to prove optic array ambiguity.
This section of the novel though unobtrusive is important-the unconvinced but impressed average man's view of the religion he lives with.
Likewise, a historian of art could be impressed by the effects of new technologies first used nonartistically - ceramics benefited from hotter, cheaper ovens, for example.
The shadow is seen due to the additional angular spread impressed on proton protons traversing the mesh wires.
Artists, impressed with the manner in which the natural processes around them have shaped the environment, guide these to shape artefacts of their own.
Because ageing is concerned with what happens in time, we are impressed with not only the multi-dimensional nature of time, but also with its complexity.
Questions also arise about the correspondence between voltage levels impressed on isolated bipolar cells relative to those found physiologically in the intact retina.
The farmers, after repeated lobbying, finally impressed upon the consolidation officers the necessity of observing certain principles.
I was certainly impressed with the faculty there.
He was particularly impressed by the evidence of cultural attitudes conducive to the emergence of experimental science.
Finally, we describe a magnetic system that is coupled to an electrical network with an impressed voltage.
The authors are impressed by the ' pervasiveness of family integration everywhere ' and the importance of old people as providers of informal care.
The government was so impressed by their presentation that they ordered an investigation and report from the district administration.
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