Conditions similar to confessional circumstances arise when other types of persuasive evidence are gathered, which have the same impressive influence as confessions.
It is a matter of experience that the semi-idiotic have an excellent memory and can accurately reproduce events which are really impressive or alarming, and which have left effects upon them.
The inaugural rites are performed with a stately ceremonial of which Selden himself would have approved[207]; everything is done to make the pageant as impressive as possible.
This process of haling an offender to the bar to receive the censure of the House was an impressive one, calculated to strike fear into the boldest heart.
The way in which we went was so impressive that it was comparatively easy to be keyed up to anything.
And they did; nor would they believe the twins' assertions that the dark Mausoleum, with its cavernous rock chambers and granite vaults, was the most impressive thing they had seen in Egypt.
But the Society was surrounded by various symbols of animpressive character, and its rules were enforced by a secret and vigorous discipline.
I think that of Mr. Madison superior and more comprehensive, but for this very reason (comprehensiveness) less impressive than mine.
We dined in the rude old baronial hall, impressivefrom its antiquity, and fortunately free from the plaster of former improvement, as I trust it will, from the gingerbread taste of modern Gothicisers.
That sounded very impressive and polite as a starter but he couldn't stop there if they expected a speech.
That watch would look very impressive before all those business men.
He nodded with impressive gloom and took three tabloids from the phial he held in his hand.
Her ritual is never so impressive as when stripped of strained formality; it is then that, in spite of ourselves, we must feel and admire all the strength and beauty of her liturgy.
Its grandeur was more impressive in the dimness than in the glare.
A few markers of the simplest, and a plain tablet now and then where a hero fell or valour was unusually conspicuous, should suffice, for a field is more impressive that lies for the most part in its original rudeness and solitude.
He was then a man in his best years, a strong, sensible if not impressive face, and a well-knit frame.
The most interesting portrait of Bancroft presents him as a nonagenarian, against this impressive background, at work to the last.
Different, but more impressive is the memorial of Lee.
I believe I have never seen so impressive an exhibition of the power of a great personality.
In the choruses, the inspirations of the Hebrew prophets, framed as it were in a Greek mould, give impressive relief to the dialogue, as in Sophocles and Aeschylus.
The exercises in the church, the singing of Luther's hymn, A Mighty Fortress is our God, the oration and the impressive prayer of Phillips Brooks were finished.
An impressive incident of the session occurred in the address of the "Mover of the Queen's Speech.
Proceeding by way of Stafford, Laona, and Fairview, he arrived on the 9th; and on the 10th gave a very impressive and interesting discourse, which was happily suited to the occasion.
Express your ideas in as few words as possible, render the sense clear, use plain and familiar language, but lively and impressive figures.
The most impressive thing about the whole output of the Bureau to the child is its Map.
Its center moves methodically along at the not veryimpressive speed of fifteen miles an hour, while our cyclones hurry along at thirty.
The external forms of reverence for the deceased king are impressive and unbounded; and the image formed from his ashes, being placed upon the altar, claims scarce less devotion than that of Buddha himself.
But the most impressive feature of the scene was the almost unbroken silence that reigned over sky and water.
In truth it was animpressive one, and little likely to be effaced.
But perhaps there was nothing about the scenery I beheld more impressive than those silent cascades, whose slender threads of water, after leaping down the steep cliffs, were lost amidst the rich herbage of the valley.
Again he drew away and made the impressive pause, but in a moment he was once more at the charge.
He spoke with an important air; no voice, Judith thought, can be impressive if it is not clear.
In that which happened on the following night, making the fifth in the series, an impressive incident varied the monotony of horrors.
Yes," he assented, "I suppose you would call it so; but I confess that I should have found the text more impressive without its exposition.
With perfect dignity and impressive calm, the King quietly demanded whether M.
His voice sank to a low and impressive tone, and for a moment his hearers looked astonished and disconcerted.
She began very simply,--without any attempt at a majestic choice of words, or an impressive flow of oratory.
He put himself upon the level of all, and charmed them no less by his inexpressible kindliness of manner than by his simple yet impressive conversation.
From hence to the close the music is fragmentary, but intensely dramatic, and as impressive as any operatic music ever penned.
It was a species of melodic vein and choral combination that the Milanese dilettanti had never before heard; such instrumentation, too; such novel and impressive effects were not within the memory of the oldest habitue of La Scala.
His power of stimulating other minds proves sufficiently that he frequently hit upon impressiveand suggestive thoughts.
Nobody could say more emphatically that poetry should not be rhymed logic; and his most impressive poems are simply waking dreams.
And do you find I'm an impressive character to play?
Yet my classic lore aggressive (If you'll pardon the possessive) Is exceedinglyimpressive When you're passing an exam.
It was more suitable to domestic than to ecclesiastical work; but the dome is an impressive feature, and St. Peter's a noble church.
Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War; has large and impressive cemeteries; chief manufactures are of silks, cottons, &c.
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