Impressionable used in a sentence

Impressionable in a sentence as an adjective

The police are a brainwashing operation on young impressionable minds. In many ways they are also victims of the state.

The tactics being used to exploit the minds of the impressionable are the same in both scenarios. The insular cultures that result from those tactics is just a natural byproduct.

Suffice it to say that too much Civilization in my formative years may have crystallized these sorts of values in my impressionable mind. I still see the world as divided into "scientists" and "support staff".

Writing it up afterwords sets a bad example for other impressionable young hackers who look up to these guys and will set themselves up for being exploited when they go to work because they think it's expected of them. I couldn't finish the article.

Today I see many of the young and impressionable being manipulated in an ardent search for desperate glory. They get roped in by blog posts, conference talks, friends and coworkers who are too young to remember the atrocities of old.

It attracts only young impressionable shutins to the startup and they feel like if they aren't working 18 hours a day they are slacking. Plus there is the "Stanford/Google effect" in play where everyone claims to be studying/working all the time but aren't if you factor out the foam dart / BBQ / bro time.

We have a CEO who is young, idealistic, ego-centric and in certain ways, impressionable. Not in a petty sense - but in a way where providing the opportunity to feel as though he really is changing the world, he will assume that he is -- and for the better.

That entire article is just a glorified troll, which I'm only responding to in case anyone impressionable reading your post otherwise thinks it's worth anything.

So it's common to see older engineers become consultants & business owners; who then hire the younger, cheaper, more impressionable employees.

But there will always be this new supply of kids getting old enough to have their own debit card, they will also have impressionable minds and not have their habits cast in stone. Therefore the high pay per sale per click is actually about getting new life-long customers, in much the same way as it was for Big Tobacco.

I don't like to overdramatise things, and my situation should improve to some extent given time, but taking this drug is the worst decision I have ever made, and the young, impressionable people who are all-too-readily prescribed this drug must be made more aware of its risks. Remarkably effective acne cure, yes.

Again, this system was about identifying impressionable voters and marketing to them properly. The location of swing states is simple and public information, not proprietary.

It amounts to a company line that many seem to toe effortlessly: There is a strong culture of sheltering the administration which has brought a great deal of money and opportunity to this town, particularly for impressionable young people. This is why I find the editor's IP address to be sadly predictable.

For a long time the regular non-game software industry was a lot like this also, except unlike the games industry there wasn't a long enough lineup of impressionable, desperate young graduates waiting to be drawn and quartered by the executioner inside. Nothing meaningful will change until the supply of people willing to take on this horrible system dries up.

The gist of this article is that Obama was able to use a combination of data mining and creative marketing to pinpoint impressionable voters in crucial areas with a view toward manipulating the electoral college system to his advantage. This is yet another reason to toss the electoral system in the garbage and set it on fire.

Upper middle class salary, great job security, a soap box from which to influence impressionable minds, freedom to pursue intellectual interests, etc. Naturally, as with any career track that looks pretty sweet, people rush to enter the field.

The only reason those cartels are relevant to the discussion at all is the developer is experiencing monopoly-power envy, and these two cartels enjoy anomalously high social importance to impressionable young men. Game studios will instead choose to hire developers who enjoy being exploited for low wages and in terrible working conditions.

Back when I was young and impressionable, the debate was something called the "ISO 7 layer networking model" and "TCP/IP". You see the international standards organization had decided that the world needed a global networking standard, and so they got their best standards engineers together to come up with what they gloriously christened the "Open Standards Interconnect" or OSI set of protocols.

And so, the democratisation of medicine, which is empowering for patients, and a good thing, creates distortions in the marketplace, as the uninformed but impressionable patients make treatment decisions based on emotional appeals about 'holistic therapies' that are less toxic - but also, and what is swept under the carpet, less effective. Disclosure: Final year medical student

The positive-feedback cycle stemming from early votes serves only to create an illusion of consensus, and many impressionable users begin to form thoughts like "that many upvotes can't be wrong" etc. That, IMO, is the real problem with up/downvote systems.

I think advising an impressionable youth to look down on others who do conform is a mistake because it could start him down the course of assuming the reason he has no friends is because nobody understands him and that will continue to reinforce itself until he is a all-out recluse. When I look back at those times in my life that I was a recluse I recognize that people were genuinely dicks sometimes, but most of the time I was just not that easy to make friends with.

When I was young and impressionable, it struck me as absolutely freaking magic that you could make whole hundreds of dollars appear out of the Internet without doing "real work" with an office and tie and deadlines and all those things that sounded a lot like my least favorite parts of school. Being older and wiser, I now realize that hundreds of dollars is rat spit next to the going market rates for engineers, and there exist plenty of options to get compensated in 2014 for things which are much closer to LoL than they are to office/tie/TPS reports.