The body that shapes the clothes is robustly suggested beneath them, but the figure has an ethereality that defies the weight of paint.
What Urinetown does is suggest, beneath its mantle of humour, how drought could ultimately make weeing a matter of life and death.
Furthermore, the fact we found no large seedlings or even saplings beneath or in the vicinity of adult trees strongly suggests that beneath maternal trees, survival of seedlings above a certain age (likely some 3 4 years) is very close to zero indeed.
Its lyrical quality suggests that beneath the hard-bitten scoffer there lurks a romantic softie, while beneath that again lies a hard-bitten scoffer.
In this context, after all, "black savages" suggests that beneath the thin veneer of the apparently civilised Western-born black male lurks an irredeemably violent thug, and that all it takes is the right triggers to unleash him.
For all of Fernando's protestations of world-weariness, the speed with which he falls in love with aimless young men, along with his passion for Maria Callas (who is heard singing an aria from "The Barber of Seville"), suggests that beneath his ostentatious ennui and writer's block he still has a healthy appetite for life.
But a still-unfolding series of scandals suggests that beneath the industry's calm and trusted surface may lurk practices quite as unsavoury as any of those revealed last year at Wall Street's big investment banks, or the year before at the likes of Enron.Because Americans trust mutual funds so much, some fear that this could do more damage to American capitalism than any of the earlier scandals.
Her celebrity bequeaths the movie its capital "I" importance, but her wild stare also affectingly suggests the tumult beneath Mariane's preternatural calm.
In its unassuming way, though, "We Went to Wonderland" spans decades and continents and suggests endless complexity beneath its simple surface.
Assisted by Omortag and relying upon the defenses of Constantinople, Michael defeated his enemy, but the episode suggests the tensions beneath the surface of Byzantine society: the social malaise, the ethnic hostility, and the persisting discord created by Iconoclasm.
