The phrase "a hidden connection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an unseen or not immediately obvious relationship between two or more things.
Example: "Upon further investigation, we discovered a hidden connection between the two historical events that changed our understanding of the past."
Alternatives: "an undisclosed link" or "a concealed relationship."
For all the modern anomie that "Maelstrom" evokes, the movie insists there is a hidden connection between things.
Between all things there is a hidden connection, so that those that are apparently "tending apart" are actually "being brought together".
Though it would be indubitably cool to find a hidden connection between schoolgirl talk of the 1880s and later hipster slang, my best guess is that Mollie was describing her future husband with the older "cool, calm and collected" nuance.
Biomedical research is often slow and incremental, but it can take a leap when someone uncovers a hidden connection.
Here, one pair of narrow and wide tubes had a hidden connection between the 2 tubes, but the other pair did not (Fig. 1D ).
In a blunt introduction, he blurts out his hidden connection to Alex Matt Farabeee), a sullen teenage summer worker.
The hidden connection is found in a close support system at work: Millennials thrive best when they have a work best friend who celebrates their wins and listens to their rants and grievances.
And although the next scene, involving sadistically adulterous love-play with a woman shackled to a bedpost, initially seems like a sudden jump-cut, we soon work out the hidden connection.
It is a bold, demanding and almost daunting structure to impose (and done with consummate artistry) but absolutely essential for the novel's overriding metaphor of hidden connection, of buried meaning to function as required.
This expanded edition features several additional chapters, as well as an entirely new section describing recent developments in quantum field theory such as gravitational waves, the helicity spinor formalism, on-shell gluon scattering, recursion relations for amplitudes with complex momenta, and the hidden connection between Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity.
