Sentence examples for lying just under from inspiring English sources

Much of this mental wondering has been lying just under the surface of my thoughts for some time.

And while you have likely also had experiences on the other end of the spectrum -- sisterhood, unconditional love, kindness, support -- the wounds you've received from other women are always lying just under the surface, like a scab that never quite heals over.

As adults we have learnt to do this in privacy, for some reason showing vulnerability has become shameful and so many of us try to keep up a cheerful façade to stop anyone knowing the sadness that is lying just under the surface.

"That lies just under the threshold of pain".

How could he have known that day what invaluable treasure lay just under his feet?

"This behavior lies just under the surface of any of us," Des Forges said.

The protectionist agenda that lies just under the surface of his argument would surely result in the gradual impoverishment of our economy.

And in a way, it is more emotionally specific than Sinopoli's but more nuanced; its meanings lie just under the surface.

And Jane Austen: "How seldom readers seem to remark on all that contempt for the whole human scene that lies just under the surface"; her "only resource and consolation is the pleasure of the mind in observing absurdities".

That sadistic streak lies just under the skin of this blazing territory, and leads in some way to the strange sense of inferiority and absence of confidence that strikes an American here.

It's not surprising that someone with his history of abuse would connect deeply with the world of Twin Peaks – a town where evil and sadism lie just under the surface.