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Impinging on the pleasures are those spells of mugging, with actors way overdoing already broad comic bits.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2011

Impinging on the earth from an unknown source on the universe, these rays are apparently passing through all living things at all times, part of our natural environment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impinging upon Copperheadism stood the much more numerous body of those who persistently asserted their patriotism, but with equal persistence criticised severely all the measures of the government.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

Impinging upon the cloud of steam, its reflected glare illumined the scene on deck as clearly as if it had been broad daylight.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Impinging on geological discovery, it awakened almost simultaneously in the minds of Darwin and Wallace, that train of thought that found expression and demonstration at last in the theory of natural selection.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)