Sentence examples for a pervasive feeling from inspiring English sources

There was a pervasive feeling of time recaptured and slipping away again.

His rivals among the Sunnis are busy retrenching as their political leadership fractures, causing a pervasive feeling that Sunnis have lost any meaningful stake in Iraqi public life.

Others include hostility from the majority population, apathy in officialdom, dreadful public services and infrastructure, and a pervasive feeling of hopelessness.

But there is a pervasive feeling of dread and disconnection in the scenes that take place around the table in the family's tiny kitchen.

There are weekly catered lunches, a health plan stretching to vision insurance and, even harder to come by, a pervasive feeling of usefulness.

There's also a pervasive feeling that Obama's tone — as evidenced by tough rhetoric against Wall Street and BP — is dampening the spirits of business leaders, making them unwilling to take risks.

"There's a general pervasive feeling that Washington is broken," said Representative Adam H. Putnam of Florida, chairman of the House Republican Conference.

The most pervasive feeling is of a lack of compassion, where the commoditisation of everything and the disdain for certain nationalities thickens the skin to the tragic plight of fellow human beings.

At times you wish they would focus a bit more and sound less derivative, but their shambolic nature and the pervasive feeling of dreamy psychedelia is a large part of their charm.

Hot fudge?" THESE lines still elicit a laugh because they play on the pervasive feeling in America that it's absurd to think that food that tastes wonderful, like hot fudge, might actually be good for you.

As a longtime New Yorker with a wife, two young sons and a too-small apartment Mr. Wain says he can barely afford, "Wanderlust" was a place for him to channel recession-era gallows humor and a pervasive, longstanding feeling of: Is this really what I'm supposed to be doing with my life?