How To Use Suffuse In A Sentence

Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
Yet you are never far from reminders of the sadness and regret that suffuses the mind of the composer.
Pastor Rick Warren's best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life" is suffused with predestinarian themes, repackaged as a gentler divine providence. Highway To Heaven
The room was suffused with a soft golden light.

The exterior glass walls of this sculpture hall are coated with tiny white ceramic dots (called frits) that screen city views and suffuse a supernal glow heightened by filtered daylight that streams down from deeply inset skylights ” an effect equal to the lighting of Piano at his best ” made possible when Tschumi rotated the story above this middle level of the museum. Grading the New Acropolis
Sweet and spicy flavors, including date, pomegranate, coriander, and cumin, suffuse the foods spread out on a nearby buffet.
An immediate sense of fullness suffused her, as if she had been waiting for just this thing to feel complete.
The colored light falls on the painter's large areas of pure local hue and fragments them; it steals across his blindingly harsh white highlights and suffuses them with saturated and pastel hues.
The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population. Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda
This evergreen clematis is covered in perfumed, pink suffused white flowers in spring and needs a sheltered wall where stems, leaves and flowers can be in full sun with roots in shade.
In engineering, a dull light, as gray and flickery as a cloudy sky before a storm, suffused the two-storey chamber and the long flattened cylinder of the main engine. Star Trek The Next Generation®
But the most widely accepted explanation was that the book had been suffused with the aroma of his pipe tobacco. Times, Sunday Times
The designers like to say they are “suffused with the self-same light of the serenity and elegance of April”. Modern Bathroom by Baldini
Tyndall was an expert and enthusiastic mountaineer, calculating how high the energy in a ham sandwich would take him; his writings about the alps are suffused with pantheism.
The tail is suffused with a yellow ochre colouring, and the scale patterning on the upper body is ornamental.
Hanging from the central pole was a hurricane lamp that suffused the man and woman with an orange glow.
His voice was low and suffused with passion.
An intrusive coldness suffused my arteries, flooded my veins, scalloped my core in ice.
The entire film is suffused with almost unremitting brutality.
The narrative technique is deliberately non-linear and complex, the language richly poetic and suffused with biblical references.
And Jenkins's achievements - and failure to grasp the supreme power prize - pervade his historical writing and suffuse it with insight.
In engineering, a dull light, as gray and flickery as a cloudy sky before a storm, suffused the two-storey chamber and the long flattened cylinder of the main engine. Star Trek The Next Generation®
Her face became suffused with relief. Times, Sunday Times
But there are times when he seems unable to: when his emotional reactions get the better of him, and suffuse his public rhetoric on foreign affairs and infuse his specific foreign policies. Brent E. Sasley: The Passions of Erdoğan
The eyes of the patient sparkle lustrously, and become suffused with water. How I Found Livingstone
They think we are inured to the whole business and, in any case, suffused with a boredom with the political process.
And those wine-dark eyes, now cryptic black, now suffused with red glows like a night-sky above a prairie-fire, said to him, "Better come over and see if I'm tamable. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.
As Sarkar says, the incitement to violence is suffused with anxiety about virility, and the treatment of women seems to enact a fantasy of sexual sadism far darker than mere revenge.
But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work.
The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
The designers like to say they are “suffused with the self-same light of the serenity and elegance of April”. Modern Bathroom by Baldini
Suffused by a kind of fashionable search for the Key to All Mythologies but also with Breton national identity and culture.
This evergreen clematis is covered in perfumed, pink suffused white flowers in spring and needs a sheltered wall where stems, leaves and flowers can be in full sun with roots in shade.
The works of the most influential modern writer in the genre, Robert Heinlein, are suffused with economics.
On the contrary, she was going to pull him up into it beside her, and they would sit comfortably together, suffused in light, and laugh at how much afraid of him she used to be in Hampstead, and at how deceitful her afraidness had made her. The Enchanted April
Her face became suffused with relief. Times, Sunday Times
Zuka refashions the timeless subject into a contemporary painter's dream of color and movement suffused with a satirist's wit.
The light of the setting sun suffused the clouds.
Translated into international relations, this millennia-old discourse represents a tradition that is suffused with a monist political ideology that conceives of world order in fundamentally hierarchical terms, idealizes interstate order as tending toward universal hegemony or actual empire, and lacks a meaningful concept of coequal, legitimate sovereignties pursuant to which states may coexist over the long term in nonhierarchical relationships. Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books
Her eyes were suffused with warm, excited tears.
Here, insomuch as music is equated with time, it is suffused with dimension through presence.
In preliterate agricultural societies, religion suffuses every aspect of life, from the family to the workplace.
But the most widely accepted explanation was that the book had been suffused with the aroma of his pipe tobacco. Times, Sunday Times
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. Raziel
For a film suffused with grief this became life-affirming viewing. Times, Sunday Times
Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
A not very helpful grayness suffused from the high ceiling windows mounted below the dome. DEAD LINES
This retelling of that day by a few of the bereaved mothers is suffused with dignity and a crushing sadness. Times, Sunday Times
Thompson expertly unravels a tangled tale suffused with Victorian mores, millenarianism and frontier idealism.
Seeing the stark white welt across his back suffuse with pink. LOHENGRIN
And then, just ere our hands met, a twinkle of -- oh -- such distant and controlled geniality quickened the many tiny wrinkles in the corner of the eyes; the clear blue of the eyes was suffused by an almost colourful warmth; the face, too, seemed similarly to suffuse; the thin lips, harsh-set the instant before, were as gracious as Bernhardt's when she moulds sound into speech. CHAPTER I
The dust is conscious and the underlying view is that consciousness suffuses everything, an idea known as panpsychism. Times, Sunday Times
Ultimately, all they do is thicken the atmosphere of self - indulgent waywardness that has suffused the book by the time she reaches her Howard's end.
Fingers like swollen sausages and a terrible paralysis beginning to suffuse him, stiffening his limbs, fevering his mind, Kenneally saw the great shade looming up over the side of the boat, flicking sea water from its slick blue skin. The Miko
In 1869 chemists discovered heliotropin, which has an almond-suffused scent reminiscent of the heliotrope flowers. Times, Sunday Times
The whole plant is suffused with colour and with a gravitas that few other plants can match.
The light of the setting sun suffused the clouds.
A deep, squelching beat suffused with vibes and marimba stutters behind her, balancing the simple innocence of her words with skin-prickling menace.
Your mind is suffused by a shimmering golden light. Times, Sunday Times
A New Orleans-esque red glow suffused the place and a long banquette lined the back wall.
His portrait of Templeton is at times suffused in an atmosphere of sentimental nostalgia.
Looking at his photo,her eyes were suffused with tears.
Each flavor remained distinct in this dish, yet was perfectly complemented by the gentle orange essence that suffused it.
If the truths of the Catholic faith do not suffuse these endeavors, the university simply is not Catholic. Education
The evening sky was suffused with crimson.
The war suffused cinemas, from government promotional films, to newsreels (which, before television, were the public's primary visual source of news), and features.
Suffused with a post-Romantic melancholy, it seems to wander abstractedly through a softly glowing mist.
Pity suffused her voice for a moment, then melted away leaving behind an oddly toneless quality.
A dull red flush suffused Selby's face.
Your mind is suffused by a shimmering golden light. Times, Sunday Times
Italo Calvino (photo, left) died in 1985, and the writings marking his point of arrival at the time of his death were suffused with an unproclaimed postmodern embarrassment in the face of any demand that writing should be ‘significant.’
The lines "Friend to the friendless" &c. which you may think "rudely disbranched" from the Chatterton will patch in with the Man of Ross, where they were once quite at Home, with 2 more which I recollect "and o'er the dowried virgin's snowy cheek bad bridal love suffuse his blushes meek!" very beautiful. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
The idea was that the deliriously loved-up men would unable to resist one another, but would be suffused with regret once the potion wore off.
Labour is completely suffused with what I call the arrogance of power- which comes with being in government too long and so will probably benefit from some time out.... Paying the price in sleep, Naija food, politics and catching Ms Adichie's eye
From its beginnings in the 1970s, the personal computing revolution has been suffused with countercultural idealism. Times, Sunday Times
The light of the setting sun suffused the clouds.
All of this is presented in a style that is both austere and beautiful - plain as can be, yet suffused with an appreciation for artifice as a way of survival.
Suffused with puritan guilt, his self interest had its limits.
Simeon Solomon's magnificent centenary retrospective in Birmingham reveals an artist whose work is suffused with trangressive sexuality
Where the first half of the show wore out the electro template, the second is suffused with the spirit of second-rate indie-rock.
In most shots, virtually the entire screen is suffused with a red wash, which dominates and assimilates virtually every other colour but black.
While Turner was a complex and eclectic artist, much of his work is suffused with a Romantic sense of nature's sublime power and wonder.
Working in low light without a flash demanded relatively long exposures, and so color suffuses these images.
The more the sun wanes the more lustrous become the colours of the encroaching night until the entire picture is suffused first with magenta and finally saturated in deep blue.
Seeing the stark white welt across his back suffuse with pink. LOHENGRIN
His gloriously honeyed voice is a warm, agile instrument, suffused with sadness and joy, strength and fragility in equal measure.
But the most widely accepted explanation was that the book had been suffused with the aroma of his pipe tobacco. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps Dr Nunn will tell us some day if quantum memories are like the human ones that suffuse this room – memories of 30-year-old kisses and of bedtime stories read by one of the RSC's most seductive voices, all locked, perhaps subatomically, in these very walls. The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman
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. Archive 2008-02-01
The ruin at the left is placed within an idealized landscape that is harmoniously balanced and suffused with a soft, glowing light.
The idea that empire is a Bad Thing suffuses almost all our imaginative worlds too: in the literature of science fiction and fantasy, in popular cinema, in video and computer games.
Each flavor remained distinct in this dish, yet was perfectly complemented by the gentle orange essence that suffused it.
He was still in the strait-waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading -- I might almost say, "cringing" -- softness, I was satisfied with his present condition, and directed him to be relieved. Dracula
Lynott suffused his songs with images of the lone ranger, the jailbreaker, the downtrodden underdog.
This has caused critics to grumble that despite their professed free-thinking, Apple aficionados are actually suffused with groupthink. It's an interesting irony.
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. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
Another Year" is a joy, albeit one suffused with melancholy - a visually rich, musical, unmannered slice of life that magnifies experience rather than miniaturizing it. Somewhere between settled and unsettling
Hanging from the central pole was a hurricane lamp that suffused the man and woman with an orange glow.
Your mind is suffused by a shimmering golden light. Times, Sunday Times
Then the light of the full moon began to suffuse his face, until he exploded with: That was my other dog. MOON-FACE
The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè. In the Tennessee mountains,
But for the most part the music is taut, suffused with a ragged but determined power that has few equals among their contemporaries.
A dull red flush suffused Selby's face.
Yet despite the sinister ideological forces at work, an uncanny tenderness suffuses this poem.
With its allusions to dusky rivers, soul, blood, the setting sun, and sleep, the poem is fairly suffused with images of death.
[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. Three Girls in a Flat
Moore suffuses her book with the rich detail and critical observation of a good reporter.
In breeding plumage white of body suffused pink.
It is thrilling to see how this desire for deeper spirituality, redemption and grace suffuse the poem even as it ironically ends with the beggar's spirited demands.
Chromatherapy is available in eight different colour sequences that suffuse the water with emotionally soothing light.
The works of the most influential modern writer in the genre, Robert Heinlein, are suffused with economics.
Seeing the stark white welt across his back suffuse with pink. LOHENGRIN
These films are derivative, infantile and suffused with a culture of complaint and delusions of suburban grandeur; and, strangely dated.
Here, they're suffused with fontina and pecorino and swathed with tomato sauce.
Set to run for six hours, as per his own solstice tradition, the performance will incorporate projections of "The Movement of People Working," an attentive series of documentary films that Mr. Niblock started making in the '70s, as well as music that stands to swell and suffuse the room. Experiments With the Solstice in a SoHo Loft
Blood and death suffuses the history of southern Africa, but our lodestar is a noble hope. OLOF PALME AND THE LIBERATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
For a film suffused with grief this became life-affirming viewing. Times, Sunday Times
Nostalgia has suffused the build-up to today's anniversary.
My intention here is to link fate with incipience, or to suffuse the limiting condition known as fate with the limiting condition known as beginning in such a way as to allow the limits to cancel each other.
Each flavor remained distinct in this dish, yet was perfectly complemented by the gentle orange essence that suffused it.
A member of the carotenoid family, lycopene suffuses fruits with color and offers several healthful properties, particularly for men.
Entrées, though less spirited, offer the balminess that suffuses a seaside vacation.
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. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
The place was suffused with struggle and resentment and frustration. Petty crime was commonplace.
It is also suffused with anxiety and dread. Times, Sunday Times
Almost every scene is suffused with an aesthetic that captures the all too familiar feeling of pubescent gracelessness, be it in the close-ups of lips smacking in the throws of burgermunching or the awkward fumblings of sofa sex.
It is also suffused with anxiety and dread. Times, Sunday Times
Hanging from the central pole was a hurricane lamp that suffused the man and woman with an orange glow.
Lily found the idea of a cherubic host absurd, yet she allowed herself to be suffused with the idea of immortality. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
Neither our natural lives in this vale of tears, nor the divinizing action of the Holy Spirit that ought to suffuse those lives, are ultimately about justice. Wildfire
His books are based in contemporary settings but he's able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us.
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. Experimental Fiction
Appalled at his deliberate misunderstanding of her offer to buy him coffee, Serena felt outraged heat suffuse her cheeks.
His whole frame suffused with a cold dew
Her work reflects that background: her unfussy interiors—suffused with a serene, Far Eastern vibe—commingle antiques with bold contemporary art. Terms of Adornment
For the artist, hailed on his death as ‘the greatest British painter since Turner’, was a chronic asthmatic, and the illness suffuses his paintings.
But in fact, Shelley was an optimist who wrote poems suffused with faith in human progress.
Selfhood, life and mere existence are meaningless if not suffused with this life-giving force.
The 1970s was a period when the Powellism of the 1960s came to suffuse the social fabric, and was gradually consolidated and transmuted into the Thatcherism of the 1980s.
I leave them that way because it reminds me of my father," he says while we wend our way through levels of interior spaces suffused with a subaqueous light that filters through the Maison's famous glass-brick facade and spreads across the ivory rubberized floor. The Court of Modernism
From its beginnings in the 1970s, the personal computing revolution has been suffused with countercultural idealism. Times, Sunday Times
Messner regarded her in a way that was almost paternal, what of the profundity of pity and patience with which he contrived to suffuse it. A DAY'S LODGING
In this specimen, limonite (an iron oxide) contributes to the bright central arc, while fine spherules of hematite (another iron oxide) suffuse the quartz with a purplish hue.
Now again their eyes met; an ineffable expression suffused the countenance of Lord Monta-cute. Tancred Or, The New Crusade
Each flavor remained distinct in this dish, yet was perfectly complemented by the gentle orange essence that suffused it.
They think we are inured to the whole business and, in any case, suffused with a boredom with the political process.
This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.
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. Nevermore
Amy Sillman's recent show of large oils and jewel-like gouaches was suffused with the color, light and atmosphere of Quattrocento Italy.
In the run-up to Christmas Eve, give them pride of place in the warmth of the living room, where they will suffuse the air with a heady, sweet perfume.
This retelling of that day by a few of the bereaved mothers is suffused with dignity and a crushing sadness. Times, Sunday Times
The streak of sky, suffused with moisture and cold, crouched over the rooftops.
I also am really, dear, when wind up time, lets It'suffuse me to your blessing.
He consequently suffuses his speech with a rhetoric that effaces differences among Celts and Saxons.
The softened electric light suffused a glamour of glowing color over the rich brocade of the walls of Marcus Gard's library, catching a glint here and there on iridescent plaques, or a mellow high light on the luscious patine of an antique bronze. Out of the Ashes
‘The spirit of Morecambe and Wise gradually suffuses the show, and lots of Morecambe and Wise gags are lifted verbatim,’ says Clive.
The narrative technique is deliberately non-linear and complex, the language richly poetic and suffused with biblical references.
For a film suffused with grief this became life-affirming viewing. Times, Sunday Times
Her face became suffused with relief. Times, Sunday Times
A shy, quiet laugh from Werner, his thin face with its pockmarks suffused by the joy that love gives.
The broad landscape was suffused in golden light.
Since God suffuses all of life, film can cut through the encrusted vision with which we usually view this reality and reveal the Eternal.
Given over entirely to a celebration of painting, it is more or less bisected at a diagonal of golden russet dappling on a field of hyacinth blue, and suffused with ambient light.
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
This general concern about the threat of atomic war, of revolution and counterrevolution is suffused by almost everybody's preoccupation with the difficult business of living in the modern age. The Spirit of '67
Where a dark grey curtain had hidden the hills from sight, a rosy glow gradually deepened and suffused every mountain top in sight.
The famous statement ‘unity of empty cognizance suffused with awareness’ refers to your own nature, the essence of your mind.

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