suffusion

NOUN
  1. the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
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  • 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. Between Expectations
  • A low-voltage landscape spotlight created the desired level and suffusion of light. Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed
  • 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. GreenCine Daily: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone.
  • 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. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Working with light hues, the artist generates the impression of his motifs melting into a suffusion of light and shade on the computer generated prints.
  • 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. Nabokov's Art as Story
  • Blushing is a matter of the suffusion of blood through the skin of the face for goodness sake - there's a perfectly good explanation of what the process of blushing is - but why is he blushing?
  • 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. Lorna Doone
  • The tall spire of the Town Hall and its contrasting colours of azure and white stood majestically between a glorious suffusion of greenery.
  • The juvenal plumage is browner and much more uniform below, lacking the strong yellowish suffusion and streaked appearance below of juvenal-plumaged B. montis.
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