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Most of all, Stringer says a subtle undercurrent of racism exists in professional football.

This explains the subtle undercurrent of resentment between Central Americans and Mexicans in the film.

Mr. Wang and others say a subtle undercurrent of antipathy toward Tibetans suffuses the worldview of educated Chinese.

The terrain and styles vary, but are best when they edge closest to Chinese, with a subtle undercurrent of kitsch.

A subtle undercurrent of dry humor, along with Mr. Reid's steady sense of swing, kept the mood from deteriorating into weepy self-pity.

Both "The Cup" and "The Saltmen of Tibet" have a subtle undercurrent of mourning for the loss of their culture and country.

Although the film's mood is spellbindingly lyrical, a subtle undercurrent of self-mocking humor keeps it from becoming too heavy-handed.

Among the top lots so far in the previous sales is a 1937 comic strip (which brought $9,000) portraying Tarzan sensing "a subtle undercurrent of mystery" in a tribe of African warriors.

Under the tightly plotted narrative is an intimate drama played out in dialogue-rich confrontations, with the characters' anachronistic innocence linked to a shrewd, subtle undercurrent of Christian faith.

But it was all dreaminess and perfume: what the players and Mr. Previn did not supply was the subtle undercurrent of tension that lurks within the last setting, "L'Indifférent".

In all the stories told of Pickingill there is a subtle undercurrent of horror which one finds hard to pinpoint.