"many undercurrents" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a variety of hidden or subtle forces or influences that are present in a situation. Example: The political landscape of the country was constantly shifting, influenced by many undercurrents that were difficult to detect.
Both the text and the action Ms. Clarke has devised contain many dark undercurrents. Lee is seen as exalted but controlling.
The arrangements seem transparent, but the production (by Dom La Nena and Piers Faccini, who between them played nearly all the instruments) tucks in many delicate undercurrents of cellos, voices and percussion, discreetly sharing a very private space.
There are many subtle undercurrents in the case that can't be adequately summarized here but are beautifully laid out by Stephen S. Hall of Nature in a long feature that is essential reading if you care about the tough intersection of uncertain science and risk management in disaster hot spots.
And so I thought that it was a shared but unspoken assumption that with Communist regimes we might sometimes find some common ground, but that we simply could not find common ground with Hitler The writings of Marx, the basis of Communism, contain many ominous undercurrents and have been used to justify many horrors, but Marx wrote what he did out of compassion for humanity.
While the Women's March on Washington felt like the beginning of a movement for many, the undercurrents of resistance have been alive and well in Ferguson, Flint, North Dakota, and North Carolina to name just a few.
But their attraction, like many of the undercurrents in this turbulent, wandering novel, is one of many strong passions that can only indirectly be expressed.
I wanted to work not only with the less presentable aspects of the original stories but also with the barely implied undercurrents, many of them dark and nasty and sexual, that were there already, in stories like "Beauty and the Beast," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and so on.
The mutual resentment between Jack and Yardley, tinged with racial animosity and macho rivalry, is one of many interesting and volatile undercurrents in this tangled and chaotic movie.
As with many celebratory documentaries, fraught undercurrents go undiscussed, including questions about how Mabley's sexuality was received as she became a motherly civil-rights figure, or her role as a mother of four.
