impressiveness
- n splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- n the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind
- Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on .
- More than any man, Strauss embodies both the strength Germany can contribute to the free worldand the uneasiness that strength still stirs by its very impressiveness.
- The impressiveness of the car-nage epic's take also surprised the industry analysts who had predicted a weekend figure in the $40 millions; some had thought FF might finish second .