Sentence examples for undercurrent of menace from inspiring English sources

The undercurrent of menace here was, as in "Violet Kid," a psychological one.

Later on the boardwalk, a chance encounter with an acquaintance who shamelessly ogles Domino has an undercurrent of menace.

One female reporter said Trump's denunciations of journalists makes his rallies feel "scary," with an undercurrent of menace among his supporters.

In Tampa, Trump's rally had plenty of theatrics – he was introduced by former governor Sarah Palin – but also its usual undercurrent of menace and violence.

This was sometimes overplayed — as one audience member said of the crotch-grabbing, "I lost count at 10" — but an undercurrent of menace and fragility maintained an ambiguous tension.

But the atmosphere outside the Excel center was markedly different from the undercurrent of menace that propelled some demonstrators to lash out at the police on Wednesday, when several thousand jammed the streets of London's financial district and sporadic violence against the police reflected a heated anti-capitalist fervor.

His tone, attack and sensibility embodied what the jazz critic David Rosenthal called "badness" -- an air of unshakable cool that conceals, but just barely, an undercurrent of menacing intensity.

An undercurrent of political menace pursues him throughout his travels.

You wouldn't want it to catch on too widely, though, or our cities will take on an unfortunate undercurrent of fascist menace.

Of course not everyone who voted for Brexit is xenophobic, but xenophobes voted leave; and to pretend that the campaign did not give licence to casual bigotry, with an undercurrent of violent menace, defies decency and evidence.

Four years later, it found its full, paranoid, mesmerising expression on Maxinquaye, his "voodoo" homage to the mother he never knew, ventriloquised in the honeyed voice of his ex-lover (and mother of his daughter) Martina Topley-Bird and cut with his trademark dreamy undercurrent of angst, menace and seduction.