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"He makes Americans feel comfortable with Frenchmen," commented Israel Singer, of America's World Jewish Congress, after a private meeting between him and Jewish leaders in New York.The Socialists, for their part, have been latently anti-American since the 1950s, when the French left was seduced by communism.
India poses no strategic threat to Russia, even latently.
Dao is the "imperceptible, indiscernible," about which nothing can be predicated but that latently contains the forms, entities, and forces of all particular phenomena: "It was from the Nameless that heaven and earth sprang; the Named is the mother that rears the Ten Thousand Things, each after its kind".
Socially blundering, he veers between latently homosexual adulation for his host and moaning rudeness towards others.
Perhaps Lanegan is music's Emile Heskey: in the same way that other strikers insist that Heskey brings out the best in their game, to the bafflement of spectators, perhaps Lanegan somehow complements and cultivates whatever is latently great in whoever he is working with.
No flat-topped, bolt-in-the-neck weirdo like Karloff, Jonny Lee Miller's astonishing Creature flops stark-naked, shaven-headed and grotesquely scarred through the vaginal flaps of Frankenstein's circular Leonardo-esque contraption as a latently beautiful man.
Those latently infected cells represent a major barrier to curing the infection.
But he also catches something that's as relevant to his business life as to his sex life: there's a latently powerful element of self-discipline and self-control in her slack and fumbling manner, one that, even unbeknownst to her, is merely awaiting some severe training to unleash her powers.
The element of the marvellous — the latently menacing seethe of the everyday — has been replaced by the more vulgar excitement of overt peril.
An apathetic & latently hostile population is kept in line by carrot-and-stick measures & held together politically by Ho's companions in the Politburo & by a still powerful Army.
(And July joins the cat's final, otherworldly words to simple yet ecstatic images that match the vast ideas and locate them, latently , as accessible raptures of daily life).
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The adverb "latently" primarily functions to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs , indicating that something exists in a hidden or undeveloped state. Ludwig examples illustrate how it qualifies adjectives (e.g., "latently hostile") or describes the manner of existence (e.g., "latently contains").
Expression frequency: Very common
