Glory by association was one explanation for the phenomenon, gullibility and impressionability were two more.

Like those earlier fighters, Sergeant Moore readily admits his impressionability.

The impressionability of a life not yet weathered is the essential charm of spring ingredients.

Also consider that childhood and adolescent stages of personal growth have the highest level of impressionability.

Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal proportion and commercial ability?

But all date from a time when quality was attainable without the sign of nouveau impressionability, the designer imprint.

Thanks to the impressionability of immature organization, hereditary adaptive variation accompanies sexual generation in changing conditions.

Unfortunately, Mindworm's impressionability and loneliness were later exploited by criminals who used him to assist in a robbery and he was again imprisoned.

The results of the experiment have been argued to demonstrate the impressionability and obedience of people when provided with a legitimizing ideology and social and institutional support.

But some would say that, spurred by their own vanity and their clients' impressionability, they would have reached the pinnacles of pomposity without having to resort to these ancient rites.

To this end, Darwin adduces, most especially, those phenomena that would be anomalous for any exclusive correlation of maturation, fertilization and impressionability with sexual rather than asexual modes of generation.

SCHNEIDER BELIEVES THE power of television and the impressionability of viewers require special restraints on programmers.

"Given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren," he added, "particularly within the confined environment of the classroom, the policy is highly likely to convey an impermissible message of endorsement to some and disapproval to others of their beliefs regarding the existence of a monotheistic God."

Adding to the idea that the impressionability of children is a serious concern: The impressionability of children can lead to "nag factor" situations; situations brought on by advertisements whose effects are amplified when children are involved.

These gemmules have, accordingly, been invested by Darwin with two sorts of properties: those credited to every asexual part of the body, in 1838, to explain its generative and regenerative powers, and those invoked then to explain the impressionability and variability of immature ova.

This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament" - it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

Men and women chosen on the basis of their impressionability to the effects of the needbreeder, brought to Venus Cluster, hypnotized, given a viral-infected suitcase, sent back to their home Colonies to hide the suitcases, and then on to their respective rendezvous with the assassin.

Some commentators later dismissed such claims as petty grudge, borne out of jealousy, aggravated by Goncharov's natural suspiciousness, impressionability, and general hypochondria; others, however, argue this would have been too simple an explanation, for while many of Goncharov's allegations were far-fetched, at least some were not altogether groundless.