Impressing

You're not impressing me.

You think you're impressing people doing an end run around normal procedures, but you'll just wind up with a reputation of not being a team player.

I am not impressing them.

The winery's staff was knowledgeable, impressing Adriano.

This is the picture which the more self-conscious intellectuals have formed of themselves, and which they are slowly impressing upon a population which is being led no man knows whither by an indubitably intellectualized President.