All 3 Uses of
pervasive
in
The Bluest Eye
- And the joylessness stank, pervading everything.†
Chpt 2
- Only they would know how to connect the heart of a red watermelon to the asafetida bag to the muscadine to the flashlight on his behind to the fists of money to the lemonade in a Mason jar to a man called Blue and come up with what all of that meant in joy, in pain, in anger, in love, and give it its final and pervading ache of freedom.†
Chpt 4
- He believed that since decay, vice, filth, and disorder were pervasive, they must be in the Nature of Things.
Chpt 4 *pervasive = existing everywhere
Definition:
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(pervasive) existing throughout something; or generally widespread