To the occupants of the survivor, he gave a searing impression of the Primes and the indestructability of the worlds in this section of space.

As his fiancee, Vera Farmiga is seen only briefly but makes a searing impression: She's fierce and legalistic, and she fixates on the bottom-line questions in a way that frees her from looking at the moral ones.

While Chris Burden reduced the agony of his various performances to single shocking instants that years later still have the power to make a searing impression on the mind, Orlan's travail goes on and on, becoming a tedious blur of needless suffering laced with a narcissistic stoicism and a desperate need for attention.

MARTIN SCORSESE was a teen-ager when he first saw Irving Lerner's B-movie melodrama "Murder by Contract," one of many obscure Hollywood films that left a searing impression on him.

What left a lasting and searing impression was the 13-year-old child that Gauguin used as his mistress.

It stars Kristen Bell, who made a searing impression as a young hustler who came to a brutal end in HBO's "Deadwood" this season.

JOHN YANG doesn't make a searing physical impression.

"The raw, impersonal hate that he experienced there made a searing impression on him," Judge Keating said.

But Mr. Klein suggests that one of the attacks portrayed in the movie actually succeeded in making a "searing impression in the Arab world," helping increase fear and deter terror.