"My work has an undercurrent of love, jealousy, loneliness, murder," he told the Palm Beach Post in 1999.
The relationships between characters were at the core of Sullivan's work, along with an undercurrent of social commentary, and, as the years went by, he lamented the state of comedy writing.
This tradition was maintained as an undercurrent throughout Japanese history.
The dark wit that characterised her previous novels, Disobedience and The Lessons, runs through this book as an undercurrent, but The Liars' Gospel shows the hand of a mature novelist, a daring and accomplished work on a broad canvas.
The local energy cooperatives have settled as an undercurrent in Dutch society and the energy market.
As such, an undercurrent of despair and frustration can be felt talking to the informants, as they struggle to promote oral health in those families.
On "Apparent Distance" they work with the bassist Ken Filiano to maintain an undercurrent with as many eddying permutations as river rapids.
But even the most plotless of his works have an emotional undercurrent.
The prosecutors' backgrounds have served as something of an undercurrent in the case.
Like the Wachowski brothers with "The Matrix," Mr. Kelly took a genre usually seen as disposable and worked in a philosophical undercurrent.
