The courage to hold contradictory impressions together is a brave skill, highly prized by writers.

Like everything to do with Presley's life and times, the four albums leave deeply contradictory impressions.

She gave an oddly contradictory impression of both fragility and strength.

Jack had never seen anything to match the contradictory impressions in any work by an Earth artist, and he thought he had seen all the works of the great ones and the near-greats.

Either that, or simply misguided and rather clueless and contradictory impressions - about like any idiot that would go on this trek and...

A conversation with Damon, 30, leaves contradictory impressions.

Mr. Frank made contradictory impressions on Thursday and Friday.

When he tried to focus on any part of what he was dealing with-Helen, Novak, Helical, West-all he got was a jumble of contradictory impressions.

As she passed the rusty cultivator and the broken frames, her mind was in a maelstrom of contradictory impressions.

The room held the contradictory impressions of newness and age, and the faintest scents of ozone and oil.