The anger that existed about the debt crisis and subsequent austerity had been diffuse but tangible for some time.
Had Walbert tried to force her material into a more conventional format, the result would very likely have been diffuse and flat.
Mr. Beebe said that for auxiliary enterprises like limousine services, any increase in business has likely been diffuse enough to go virtually unnoticed.
The storm is frighteningly solid, but, because we are still feeling its edges, the snapshots have been diffuse and disorienting.
Power within Time Inc., which through many mergers over the decades became the modern Time Warner, has long been diffuse, with individual publishers and editors essentially running their own shows.
While the effect of sequestration on the overall economy has been diffuse, with the largest impact falling on the military and companies dependent on Pentagon spending, nowhere has the sting been felt more severely than on American Indian reservations.
