Crossword clues for impressiveness
impressiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impressive \Im*press"ive\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. impressif.]
Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
Capable of being impressed. [Obs.]
--Drayton. -- Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being impressive.
WordNet
n. splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture" [syn: grandness, magnificence]
Usage examples of "impressiveness".
And he assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion.
However, the evidence suggests that a massive B-52 strike that does not kill anyone or destroy anything is actually more powerful than a pinpoint attack that precisely obliterates a tank or bunker, because the terror of the former has a much greater impact on enemy morale than the impressiveness of the latter, and it is much easier and faster to eliminate a unit by causing its morale to break than by destroying all of its weaponry.
The eclipses of 1900 and 1905, for instance, which were seen by the writer, the first in South Carolina and the second in Spain, fell far short of that described by Bailey in splendor and impressiveness.
Tall, lean, with strong, bold features, a keen, scholarly, accipitrine nose, thin, expressive lips, great solemnity and impressiveness of voice and manner, he was my early model of a classic orator.
It may be well to remark here that occult believers are probably less effective than materialists in delineating the spectral and the fantastic, since to them the phantom world is so commonplace a reality that they tend to refer to it with less awe, remoteness, and impressiveness thin do those who see in it an absolute and stupendous violation of the natural order.
It may be well to remark here that occult believers are probably less effective than materialists in delineating the spectral and the fantastic, since to them the phantom world is so commonplace a reality that they tend to refer to it with less awe, remoteness, and impressiveness than do those who see in it an absolute and stupendous violation of the natural order.
She was dressed, and adorned, in all the colorful, glittering, striking barbaric richness, in all the impressiveness and splendor, in all the festive display, fit for feasts and dances, of a red-savage female.
Here the gaffers and gammers, whose dancing days were over, told stories of great impressiveness, and at intervals surveyed the advancing and retiring couples from the same retreat, as people on shore might be supposed to survey a naval engagement in the bay beyond.