Literary notes about saturated (AI summary)
In literature, “saturated” is deployed as both a literal descriptor and a potent metaphor to convey an overwhelming degree of completeness. It often paints vivid images of environments so richly imbued that every detail is infused—whether the earth is saturated with rain, as when the ground refuses to absorb another drop ([1]), or the sea shimmers with electric light, as if the water itself were saturated with energy ([2]). At the same time, the term conveys layers of emotional intensity and intellectual abundance: a voice saturated with feeling ([3]) or a mind saturated with ideas ([4], [5]) suggests a fullness that leaves no element untouched. Even in technical or scientific contexts, “saturated” signals a state of maximum capacity, whether in a chemical solution ([6], [7]) or in natural phenomena like the air saturated with moisture ([8], [9]). Overall, the word enriches literary descriptions by emphasizing an all-pervasive quality, inviting readers to experience scenes and emotions that are complete and unmitigated.
- CHAPTER III The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Around the Nautilus for a half–mile radius, the waters seemed saturated with electric light.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - “I thank you sincerely,” Karmazinov pronounced in a voice saturated with feeling, pressing his hands.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The bookworm loses his individuality; his head is filled with theories and saturated with other men's thoughts.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - With the poetry of the Greek and Latin classics he was, like Milton and Gray, thoroughly saturated.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - To the filtrate and washings add 5 cc. of a saturated solution of ferric alum and a few cc. of nitric acid.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Heat the filtrate to the boiling point and add a saturated solution of lead acetate.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The rain had ceased but the clouds hung low and threatening, and the close air was saturated with moisture.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs. - Thus the atmosphere is continually carrying off moisture from the surface of the earth, until it is saturated with it.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
