Sentence examples for undercurrent of threat from inspiring English sources
"Le Merle Noir" is no idyllic or whimsical vision; in Messiaen's music, birds are violent and changeable, beautiful and free, but always with an undercurrent of threat, and Ms. Chase, alert to the music's quicksilver changes, kept the mood ominous.
Writer Mick Ford, from the book by Blake Morrison, has given us stereotypes of complexity, which is a nice trick – they're recognisable, yet still fascinating – and a savage undercurrent of threat.
As in Hidden, Haneke won't reveal his hand, and it actually makes the work all the richer knowing this, looking for clues, feeling the undercurrents of threat.
An undercurrent of physical threat haunts some of the pieces about abortion that The New Yorker has published.
An undercurrent of political menace pursues him throughout his travels.
"It is now clear the persistent undercurrent of Tory Euroscepticism poses the biggest threat to Scotland's position in the EU and has now helped to hole below the waterline the baseless scaremongering of Alistair Darling and the rest of the No campaign".
The undercurrent of anxiety, of cheerful malice if not threat, seems to say something about the realities of Southern life before the civil rights movement.
This predicament - the threat we face from rising waters - forms the thematic undercurrent of the whole collection.
There is an undercurrent of desperate fatalism in the Whites' way of life, and also the omnipresent threat of deadly violence.
Yet even as the less credible threats have been widely publicized, the more worrisome and credible undercurrent of intercepted communications has not been made public.
