impressionability

Example Sentences

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“Just shy of the reality we now occupy, ‘The Atmospherians’ is full of visceral, often sickening emotion, as expressed through Sasha’s impulsive shifts in mood and impressionability.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

Now, teaching students of the same age, she is mindful both of their potential and their impressionability.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2021

Bearing in mind the impressionability of a sleepy child’s psyche and the position of power the reader holds, often it borders on creepy indoctrination.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2016

In the film’s early scenes, Watts’s character seems the very picture of a naïve, wannabe starlet, all can-do gumption crossed with wide-eyed impressionability.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2014

I no longer, it is true, had the same intense boyish impressionability as when I was in Sweden for the first time, seven years before.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen