impressiveness

I think it is the same element of impressiveness which is suggested in the figure of the advancing wave.

Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

Even in such a dim light as now displayed it to us, and by increasing the depth and unseen dangers of the gorge gave a kind of impressiveness to our movements, a nervous woman need not have feared to tread it, I wondered how often Mademoiselle had passed along it with her milk-pitcher.

Under the Red Robe Stanley John Weyman 1891

I know not how many hundred years old it is, but everything of Gothic origin has a faculty of conveying the idea of age; whereas classic forms seem to have nothing to do with time, and so lose the kind of impressiveness that arises from suggestions of decay and the past.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

I know not how many hundred years old it is, but everything of Gothic origin has a faculty of conveying the idea of age; whereas classic forms seem to have nothing to do with time, and so lose the kind of impressiveness that arises from suggestions of decay and the past.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"That," he said, and said without the slightest hint of impressiveness, "that came from a mammoth."

A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE 2010

Usually video seems a better mechanism for explaining the impressiveness of the so-called "slam dunk" than a still image, but I think Wednesday night was the exception.

The Wizards know how to dunk Dan Steinberg 2011

The first thought I had after the impressiveness wore off was, we really screwed up by losing that technology and expertise.

Trying To Spin The Facts - NASA Watch 2009

Guests had been arriving at the wedding in transportation modes of varying impressiveness.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

He had the lights down low, adding to the impressiveness of the display.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

He had the lights down low, adding to the impressiveness of the display.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011