Unlike the meretricious "Life Is Beautiful," "Divided We Fall" is pervaded with humor that serves not to sentimentalize or sugarcoat the monstrosity of Naziism, but to explain it.
The portrait is pervaded by a sense of loneliness and isolation.
Unlike the first symphony in mood, it is pervaded in all movements by optimistic calm.
The whole scene is "pervaded by this very heavy-handed imagery," added Beckman.
But all Nguyen's fiction is pervaded by a shared intensity of vision, by stinging perceptions that drift like windblown ashes.
Most of all, their work is pervaded by a moral seriousness and a political awareness rare in Hollywood.
All that day he is pervaded by a sense of calm, dumb goodness: exactly the way he used to feel after church.
Proponents of the first view argue that the political culture of democratic societies is pervaded by the norm that disputes are to be settled by peaceful means.
Human skin is enormously well supplied with blood vessels; it is pervaded with a tangled, though apparently orderly, mass of arteries, veins, and capillaries.
Much of the film is pervaded by a similar "sense of loss for a time and a place," as Mr. Siegel put it.
Like Wallace's breakthrough novel, "Infinite Jest," "The Pale King" is pervaded by an air of melancholia, an acute sense of loss.
