Sentence examples for set of undertones from inspiring English sources

That sense of unsettled awareness, that renewed alertness to a "set of undertones", imbues many of his poems.

Here, in a poem called "On Waking in a Room and Not Knowing Where One Is", he writes of how dislocation sharpens perception: "Cities each have a kind of light, / a color even, / or a set of undertones / determined by the river or hills / as well as by the stones / of their countless buildings.

A little ways away, the Nashville band Mona was punching its way through a set of greaser rock with melancholy undertones.

Julian Barnes's Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Jonathan Cape) is a typically elegant and absorbing book by one of the great contemporary English writers, and with strong Gallic undertones – a wonderful set of essays about artists, many of them French, covering the period from Romanticism through to modernism.

But even coupled with a set of reviews with a weary-sounding undertone, Tarantino doesn't need to fret too much.

AMC is hoping that "Hell on Wheels," with its harsh, unromanticized Western setting and sociopolitical undertones, will draw the same kind of critical response as its other high-prestige series, "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad".

The strong passion that drives Carmen along with the setting of the opera in Spain with the undertones of the Gypsy culture have contributed to the popularity of the work.

Setting aside the sexist undertones of Stewart detractors, what we find is a critical public unwilling to imagine an actress outside the confines of her YA presence.

Babe's storybook appearance conceals plenty of meatier undertones for adults and the film set a new standard for talking animal movies.

The building smelled fragrantly of dog, with undertones of ammonia.

Cool is charm with overtones of awe and undertones of envy.