primary impression

Approaching from the east, one forms a primary impression that is favorable.

My primary impressions manifest on an emotional level.

But when they stand absolute and have hardly any reference to primary impressions, then they may deceive.

Well, I say, these secondary impressions are valuable as adjuncts to primary impressions.

They italicize flavors, infiltrate them, sway them this way and that, without ever making the primary impression.

On the basis of the primary impression the consumer than takes the decision whether the product and the company behind deserve further evaluation as a potential purchase choice.

As I looked, a subtle, curious sense of beckoning seemed superadded to repulsion; and oddly enough, I found this overtone more disturbing than the primary impression.

Mr. Lacey, for example, said his primary impression of Catholicism before he spent time at Holy Name of Mary could be boiled down to one word: "strict."

'That gives us the primary impression that the explosion was of an accidental nature.although there can be no doubt the explosives were stockpiled for killing people,' one senior policeman said.

In contrast to the invective and threats, Iraq withheld immediate, lengthy reaction to the United Nations resolution, but a Government spokesman in Baghdad was quoted as saying: "Our primary impression regarding the text of the resolution is positive."

For all the advances that have been made in roads, telephones, wages and prosperity in eastern Germany, a visitor's primary impression is of landscapes blossoming with construction cranes - emblems of a building industry that has peaked - and of contradictions.

The truth is that secondary impressions, impressions gathered from books and from maps, are valuable as adjuncts to primary impressions (that is, impressions gathered through the channel of our senses), or, what is always almost as good and sometimes better, the interpreting voice of the living man.