It is a quiet but impressive room -- 140 feet long, thirty-nine feet wide, twenty-one feet high.

And Bill Wisman, forty-three, a farmer's son from Beallsville, Ohio, is a quiet but impressive man.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.

But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student's approach as distinctly his own.

From the volume standpoint, the total market represented by the sign industry is impressive.

The point is that many of the most impressive developments in the arts nowadays are aberrant, idiosyncratic.

Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

The physical facilities at Dunbar are impressive, but more impressive is the attitude of the pupils.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

There can be no doubt that the American Catholic accomplishment in the field of higher education is most impressive: our European brethren never cease to marvel at the number and the size of our colleges and universities.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

It is awfully talky, for instance, and not all of the talk is terribly impressive.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

Thus Myspace and YouTube were not liable for a dyslexic man's inability to navigate the site regardless of how impressive the " online theater " is.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

In addition to Moore's own work on the paradox, the puzzle also inspired a great deal of work by Ludwig Wittgenstein, who described the paradox as the most impressive philosophical insight that Moore had ever introduced.

One of the most impressive achievements described in the Meteorology is the description of what is now known as the hydrologic cycle.

The remains lay on the ground as described by Strabo ( xiv. 2. 5 ) for over 800 years, and even broken, they were so impressive that many traveled to see them.

The town is renowned for its Roman architecture and its Roman theatre is described as the most impressive still existing in Europe.

He described her performance as " amazingly fine-tuned " and " very impressive.

However, Svetozar Gligorić described Petrosian as being " very impressive in his incomparable ability to foresee danger on the board and to avoid any risk of defeat.

" A French eyewitness of 1553 described him as " an intelligent man who could explain his ideas and who displayed an impressive dignity.

The impressive, environmentally benign energy, homebuilding, and transportation technology described by Callenbach in Ecotopia was based on research findings published in such magazines as Scientific American.

The ABBB is described as trainable, dutiful, and responsible, with impressive capabilities as a guardian of family and property.

Howl is described as being tall and suave, fond of dyeing his hair, and wearing impressive suits.

Ezzo has been quite an impressive personality, even if the reporting on his life and offices, described by the glorifying author of " Fundatio monasterii Brunwilarensis " may be exaggerated.

" The book Digital Shock: Confronting the New Reality described her as a virtual actress having a " beauty that is ' really ' impressive ", comparing her to video game character Lara Croft.

Further from Lhogaon, an impressive view of Manaslu, with its double peak, appears described as " a soaring monarch with a double-edged summit towering above fields of barley ".

Cope was described by zoologist Henry Weed Fowler as " a man of medium height and build, but always impressive with his great energy and activity ".

Tolson was a man of impressive intellect who created poetry that was “ funny, witty, humoristic, slapstick, rude, cruel, bitter, and hilarious ,” as reviewer Karl Shapiro described the Harlem Gallery.

Various commentators, ranging from the president of the prestigious Thailand Development Research Institute to the mass-circulation newspaper Thai Rath, described the cabinet as the most impressive Thailand had ever had.

The Good Schools Guide described the school as " A traditional academic and sporty school in a stunning setting with impressive facilities but not at all elitist – in fact quite the opposite.

Following heavy rainfall and flooding in February 2007 the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan ( UNAMA ) opened a sub-office in the province and Oxfam, one of the few NGOs operating in the province, described UNAMA's input into coordinating flood relief as impressive.

Goerdeler was described as: Goerdeler's own career had been both impressive and idiosyncratic.

Historian John Newman has described the walls as " easily the most impressive town defence to survive from Roman Britain, and in its freedom from later rebuilding one of the most perfectly preserved in Northern Europe.

Warrior was described by World Wrestling Entertainment as having been " the ultimate archetype of strength and intensity ", and " one of the most intense and physically impressive competitors to ever appear in the WWE ".

The lead actors were mixed with Prashanth labelled as " impressive ", while Aishwarya Rai is described as " pretty " and that she " exhibits grace in dancing " but that " her performance leaves lots of room for improvement " and that she " overacts " in the character of Vaishnavi.

One Game Revolution review described the game's graphical engine as gorgeous with impressive real-time shadows and good water and particle physics.

Vincent Bugliosi, whose own book Reclaiming History largely agrees with Posner's conclusions, accused Posner of " omissions and distortions " but also described Case Closed as " an impressive work ".