All 4 Uses of
viscous
in
Catch-22
- His viscous eyes bulged with astonishment and he whipped himself around in alarm to see what was taking place behind him.†
Chpt 21 *
- in ghastly, heartless, revolting detail he saw his poor dear wife's trim and fragile body crushed to a viscous pulp against the brick wall of a market building by a half-wined drunken automobile driver and watched his hysterical five-year-old daughter being led away from the grisly scene by a kindly middle-aged gentleman with snow-white hair who raped and murdered her repeatedly as soon as he had driven her off to a deserted sandpit, while his two younger children starved to death slowly in the house after his wife's mother, who had been baby-sitting, dropped dead from a heart attack when news of his wife's accident was given to her over the telephone.†
Chpt 25
- Those in the water were struggling to get out, forgetting in their haste to swim, wailing, walking, held back in their flight by the viscous, clinging sea as though by a biting wind.†
Chpt 30
- — was dripping blood in several trickles, like snow melting on eaves, but viscous and red, already thickening as it dropped.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
a fluid that is thick, sticky, and resistant to flow