Definition of Imposing

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Imposing

of Impose

Laying as a duty; enjoining.

Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle.

Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.

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Imposing Quotations

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
Roald Dahl

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Franz Schubert

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
Mike Fitzpatrick

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
Douglas Wood

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
Graham Coxon

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
Esther Dyson

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber

Imposing Translations

imposing in Dutch is imponerend, indrukwekkend
imposing in French is imposant
imposing in Norwegian is imponerende
imposing in Portuguese is impo
imposing in Spanish is imponente
imposing in Swedish is imponerande

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