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But as the action proceeds, we see how extraordinary the “sunrise” and the day are — and, by extension, how monstrous the problems plaguing Nigeria are: the brutality of dictatorship, the all-pervading corruption, the staggering poverty and inequality.

He later wrote: "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity… I wondered whether the Bohemians shroud themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than they thought it was cool."

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It also speaks of an all-pervading divine spirit and seeing that spirit in everyone irrespective of race or class or gender.

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The light from this epoch, now stretched to microwave wavelengths because of the universe’s subsequent expansion, is detectable as the all-pervading cosmic microwave background.

Allard found the drone conducive to peaceful dreaming: “When heard far away it resembles the thin, attenuated drone of a big seashell held to one’s ears. So general is this blend of song that it seems to invest the earth like an invisible mist of sound. It is everywhere yet nowhere, as if sky and earth were purring softly. It is the voice attending June grasses and buttercups, flowering Japanese honeysuckle, the flowering of yarrow and the heavy all-pervading scent of grape blossoms.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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