impressionable

But common experience proves that, in impressionable persons, the activity of nerves and imagination stimulated by works of art has the possessive and unopposable force of a dream, and controls the physical organism, sometimes with quite inaesthetic consequences.

Unprintable 1969

But common experience proves that, in impressionable persons, the activity of nerves and imagination stimulated by works of art has the possessive and unopposable force of a dream, and controls the physical organism, sometimes with quite inaesthetic consequences.

Unprintable 1923

But there are people to whom these questions seem of such first importance, that to be with them when you are young and impressionable, is to feel every defect in your own personal appearance to be a crime, and to believe that there is neither worth, nor love, nor happiness (no life, in fact, worth living for) connected with much less than ten thousand a year, and 'connections.'

Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances 1869

Even just after they develop their adult brains, they are highly impressionable, which is why confirmations and bar mitzvahs etc are all held at about that time.

Archive 2008-08-01 Editorial Anonymous 2008

Perhaps that's in no small par t due to Fox's insistence on creating an alternate universe in which to attract a niche audience for advertisers, while ignoring boldface that it has any influence on the highly impressionable, which is

reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

Those years from 18 to 25 are "called the impressionable years - it's the most important time for developing political and economic views," she said.

NYT > Home Page By ALINA TUGEND 2009

But, considering that SM originally wrote the story for adults and the publishing industry pegged them as YA books, it's hard to be too critical of her for foisting the questionable romantic boyfriend model on the all the "impressionable" reading teens out there.

No TWILIGHT, please 2008

So his son was once an "impressionable" little kid that by your words turned into a "mouthy" 14 year old.

Give Tina Hill The Sam Malone Treatment Nathaniel Livingston 2006

He is very "impressionable," and I am convinced at the time he was quite sincere in his appreciation.

The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

Mr. Ratsch lifted his glass high above his head, and announced that he proposed in brief but 'impressionable' phrases to refer to the qualities of the noble soul which, 'leaving here, so to say, its earthly husk (die irdische Hülle) has soared to heaven, and plunged ...'

The Jew and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850