| The characters' search of their own identities and the struggle that ensues is the most suffusive theme throughout The Great Gatsby. |
| But a truly suffusive atmosphere to make all these elements coalesce into something provocative is absent from the proceedings. |
| It's almost fruitless to say that design is or needs one thing or another, since design is such suffusive and mercurial thing. |
| The suffusive use of red throughout the film has an overwhelming intensity reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers. |
| It is even a point of honor with action comics — as with action movies and action anything, like roller coasters — to leave us with only a suffusive, endorphin glow. |
