make an impression
Verb
Meaning
make an impression (third-person singular simple present makes an impression, present participle making an impression, simple past and past participle made an impression)
To affect someone strongly and often favorably.
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I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
The extreme always seems to make an impression.
So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.