1.   Her calmness in the face of repeated provocations impressed her friends.

2.   And a child of any temperament, in the excitement of winning over or impressing a friend, may impulsively try to flaunt the borrowed power of a gun.

3.   At first the lies are a way to plaster over his own hurts, but they gradually become a way to impress friends, win influence and seduce girls.

4.   Best of all, a multimedia journal allows you to impress your friends with pictures and notes of the vacation you never took.

5.   About two years ago, Kimmelman impressed her friends by belting out a Melissa Etheridge tune at a bar near Wall Street.

6.   But if you want to impress your friends with sartorial gems of wisdom, here is a good read.

7.   But if you want to impress your friends and do it up right, try calling the Red Sox.

8.   Exhausting yourself to impress your friends is passe, noted Sorosky.

9.   Fliers sometimes carry the cameras for intelligence gathering, according to Marine officials, but pilots acknowledge that they sometimes use the tapes to impress friends.

10.   For those who try to impress their friends with their worldliness, few things work better than the casual mention of exotic names.