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One began impressingly, "My dear long-lost uncle," and the writer went on to claim me as Uncle Lionel, who seemed to have disappeared years ago.

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

The scene between Danby and his mother, in the poky house in Charlotte Street, when she discovers that he has been giving a hundred-pound cheque to a young lady is impressingly good: it is not absolutely unsuggestive of what Thackeray was just doing, and really not far from what Trollope was not for some years to do.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

Wow, from the videos in the review it actually looks impressingly stylish!

Cult of Mac 2010

To make some heavy generalization; Swedes are impressingly velarticulated and polite to each other compared to the more aggressive danes.

jill/txt 2008

I don’t think that it is Barack Obama’s race that has caused all the enthusiasm about his candidacy here in Germany but his profound and impressingly thoughtful speeches, far away from mere political maneuvering.

Obama Fever in Europe - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The author was also, impressingly, very forthright that the two hypotheses that could explain his findings one: judges are racists and sexists, two: there were other legitimate sentencing factors that a study can’t get at would both produce the same observed outcome, making it hard to know which was going on.

Prison Sentencing Study: Whites, Women, Non-Poor, and U.S. Citizens Are Given Lighter Sentences 2006