Suffused

They crowded into the doorway while little Jimmy gazed upward, his expression suffused with such undisguised wonder that he might have been beholding one of Nature’s marvels: the snowcapped peaks of the mighty Rocky Mountains, for example, or the roaring cataracts of Niagara. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

This is a rather quiet, though quirky, title suffused with warmth and humor, but it's an eye-opener for anyone unfamiliar with the setting. ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)

[Page 123] losing the income that supported us both; but, oh, I am so glad that you know it now, and her eyes were again suffused with tears. ❋ Jean Yandell Loughborough (1892)

The buzzing and roaring noise given forth by the naphtha lamps, the monotonous chanting of the prisoners, the perpetual "All's well" of the sentries, and the intermingling notes of the bugle calls suffused the air with their distracting sounds and made me feel as if my head were in a maëlstrom. ❋ P. [Illustrator] Van Breda (1892)

Now again their eyes met; an ineffable expression suffused the countenance of Lord Monta-cute. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

A single glance told her that their recent conversation had been more than usually interesting; nor could I help seeing it myself -- the face of the governess being red, or in that condition which, were she aught but a governess, would be called suffused with blushes. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

The 'do one thing different when you get back' idea that suffused the crowd-sourced closing plenary really inspired me. ❋ Mia (2009)

The designers like to say they are “suffused with the self-same light of the serenity and elegance of April”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To the dissenters, the evidence "suggests that gender bias suffused Wal-Mart's company culture." ❋ Jess Bravin (2011)

Laura Miller believes that neither of these subjects is really where it's at with current young fiction writers: "The real themes in American fiction these days, she said, are the seeking of 'authenticity' — which sometimes works itself out in stories about immigrant communities — and interpreting the highly mediated, pop-suffused culture." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Until then, it was taken as scientific fact that to survive, a creature needs an energy source and an environment that isn't extremely hot or cold; isn't overly acidic, alkaline or salty; isn't suffused with radiation; or isn't under great pressure. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Academic criticism ultimately became so suffused with this attitude toward literature that now there's barely any pretense to an interest in literature itself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Personal without falling into solipsism, revealing without succumbing to exploitation, achingly sad, but suffused with tenderness, optimism and warmth. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We banked, passing a startled flock of Canada geese, and I felt her laugh against me, felt the sheer joy that suffused her, just as it suffused me when I flew, and my arms tightened imperceptibly, holding her even closer, somehow wanting to absorb her into my bones. ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

This kind of thinking suffused that part of the world, even when individuals or political parties were not Islamic in any way. ❋ Abraham H. Foxman (2011)

But among the most frequent pleasures of his writing is the way it is suffused with his love of poetry. ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)

Downton Abbey, which spans the years from the Titanic disaster to the start of WWI, is suffused with a subtext of sentimental regard for an endangered way of genteel life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Both Rockwell and Twain's work are suffused with humor and contain many touching, easily identifiable moments. ❋ Jacques Lamarre (2011)

"The [skyline] was suffused with many [colors] [at sunset] last night." ❋ Jezzie (2003)

'The electronic [I Ching] calculator was badly made. It had probably been manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy [tooling] up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to Japan. Glue technology had obviously not progressed in that country to the point where things could be successfully held together with it. Already the back had half fallen off and needed to be stuck back on with [Sellotape].' 'It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the [sixty-four] hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of [Chou], on each of the lines of the [hexagram]. These were unusual texts to see marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to have enjoyed many adventures on the way.' 'The device also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to "4".' '"[1 + 1]" it could manage ("2"), and "1 + 2" ("3") and "2 + 2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" it represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash for the thing.' --Douglas Adams, "[The Long Dark] [Tea-Time] of the Soul" ❋ Fredfoobar (2009)

Student 1: I got my new [I Ching] [calculator] today! Student 2: Awesome! Does it work? Student 1: Yep, but for every answer greater than 3 it says "[a suffusion of yellow]." ❋ Tangen (2008)