To his impressionable nature, alternations of mood were almost an essential of being, and there was something intolerable to him in any slowly harrowing grief.
The victims of this disease seem to be in a very high degree “suggestible” and impressionable and respond nobly to every therapeutic effort.
At his tenderest and most impressionable age, the boy was thus made sadly aware of the fleetingness of human life and the pains of bereavement.
It is important to note that this first period of unrestrained Byron enthusiasm coincides with the formative and impressionable years of Heine's youth.
For generation after generation, in the old wooden hulks Britannia and Hindustan, and afterwards in the Naval College on the heights, the cadets during their mostimpressionable years have breathed in the spirit of the Navy.
The crying need of India is noble men to make noble men of these fine impressionable youths.
They are the most malleable of human metal, the finest material for the sculptor of humanity, the most impressionable of wax.
That county, which was the world of my young and impressionable life, seemed to me to hold all that was necessary to human happiness.
But these heroic outbursts do not, as a rule, keep up very long in natures so changeable and impressionable as Augustin's.
Nevertheless, it is surprising, that in view of his changing humour, and his prompt and impressionable soul, he remained faithful to her so long.
Members join in the impressionable years of their youth; they retain for their organizations a peculiar loyalty and affection, and freely contribute with money and influence to their advancement.
He is also impressionable and changeable, responsive to kindness as he is resentful of contempt.
It must not be forgotten that the Slav immigrants, and especially their descendants, are impressionable and adaptable; that forces are at work which have already done much for them, and will do more.
It became clear also to his not dishonest, his impressionable mind, that her baby English might be natural.
He was also an impressionable fellow among his fellows, a philosopher only at his leisure, in his courted solitudes.
The earl wasimpressionable to the remark, in his disgust at the incident.
Its social organization still presses painfully on those who wish to do their own thinking; and half a century ago in Ibsen's impressionable youth, the pressure must have been tragic.
I must have been an impressionable child, with all my strong, sturdy health, inheriting something of my mother's romantic nature.
It may possibly be desirable as a hypnotic for very impressionable persons, with whom faith in a remedy supplies its want of intrinsic efficiency.
The French, it is said, are an impressionable people, but they appear to have a limit; they do not take any chances on plain syrup of lactucarium.
I had never been an impressionable girl as far as men were concerned—I was not an impressionable woman.
Also, foreseeing the termination of Gabriel's unhappy romance, he was profoundly sorry for the young man, knowing well how disastrous would be the effect on one so impressionable and highly strung.
The town, situated in the western part of the Province, was not destitute of natural charms, to which the boy's impressionable mind eagerly responded.
The Bourbon party, however, was certainly in the minority; but at places along the route their demonstrations were effective enough to influence an impressionable populace, and to delight the conquerors.
His prolonged stay in the country exerted an excellent influence upon the impressionable soul of the young man.
Vain for thee to be dowered with an impressionable heart, to be beautiful, gentle, intelligent!
You know that my daughter is young and inexperienced--an impressionable child not sufficiently seasoned in wisdom to repudiate the gauzy lure of dangerous modernisms.
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