Sentence examples for undertones of power from inspiring English sources

The undertones of power and danger cut both ways: a woman in high heels is taller, more imposing, and wearing what could potentially be a dangerous weapon; on the other hand, odalisques in the harem of the Turkish sultan were once made to wear high, precarious sandals to prevent them from fleeing.

And, recognizing the undertones of violence and power is not paternalistic.

'Best' with all of its chilly undertones, assumes power and conveys just enough insult to make the message of annoyance clear.

Working with her actors, Decker doesn't seem to observe behavior but to invent it: the characters bring a glint of whimsy, a lilt of pain, and an undertone of seething erotic power to the seemingly most ordinary activities.

Lebanon became the scene of a struggle for power between Druzes and Maronites, with undertones of social conflict.

Love stories, like love itself, turn less on things that are easy to summarize — situations, plots — than on the little details that give a tale or encounter its unexpected power: a gripping tone, a flash of wit, the eerily sadistic undertones of an erotic obsession.

Undertones of hostility and resentment".

"That one only has undertones of peach.

Nor the oddly fascistic undertones of Musclebound.

Undertones of loneliness and reluctant reserve ironise Reid's jauntiness.

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