all-pervading
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He later wrote: "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity… I wondered whether the Bohemians shroud themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than they thought it was cool."
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2023
The light from this epoch, now stretched to microwave wavelengths because of the universe’s subsequent expansion, is detectable as the all-pervading cosmic microwave background.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2022
“How does one escape this all-pervading thing, exoticized foreknowledge?” he writes.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 6, 2019
This sense of being intertwined with an all-pervading natural network is—not surprisingly—everywhere in a land said to have emerged from a liaison between a blue wolf and a fallow doe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2018
There was a man whose whole existence was absorbed by one great and all-pervading passion; it brought ruin to his body and disabled his mind from correcting the vagaries of his fancy.
From Modern Magic by Maximilian Schele de Vere
