Suffusion

The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

And as quickly as it had come to me, that sense of purpose, of belonging, it has dissipated, leaving behind only the warm suffusion of what there might someday be. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

I had longed for that twisted suffusion of cells, that genre of lovemaking that only our kind can do. ❋ Nina Alvarez (2010)

A low-voltage landscape spotlight created the desired level and suffusion of light. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a slow suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist. ❋ ____Maggie (2008)

Not without its playfulness and deadpan jokes, the uprooted Malay setting serves for a far more morose, empty and searching film, one whose suffusion with the dripping evening heat, lumberingly slow bodily movement, and general languor serve out the dance between the immigrants in a kind of humid, sorrowful slow motion. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Like a cat with catnip, I would go into moments of empty-headed joy when drinking the tea, and was fully addicted to the body-warming suffusion of flavors that this simple drink could give. ❋ Annemarie (2007)

The tranquillity upon the deep, and on the firmament, the orderly withdrawal of the stars, the calm promise of coming day, the rosy suffusion of the sky and waters, the ineffable splendour that then burst forth, attuned my mind afresh after the discords of the night. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hence the glorious suffusion of light which the ardent desire of men brought over the face of Europe in the latter half of the fifteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus there is a fervour in his love-making — a suffusion of his whole being with the rapture of his passion — that sheds a glory on its object, and raises her, before the eyes of the audience, into the light in which he sees her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The cold light of morning had succeeded to night and there was already, in the sky, the red suffusion of the coming sun. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Its suffusion with purity of motive is completely blinding to those within the system. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Suppose we did see, both within and outside the walls of Catholic churches, a renewed suffusion of "sanctoral legend, miracle story, and apocrypha." ❋ Mike L (2006)

"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)