Crossword clues for undercurrent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undercurrent \Un"der*cur`rent\, a.
Running beneath the surface; hidden. [R.] ``Undercurrent
woe.''
--Tennyson.
Undercurrent \Un"der*cur`rent\, n.
A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
--Totten.-
Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly shown; an unseen influence or tendency; as, a strong undercurrent of sentiment in favor of a prisoner.
All the while there was a busy undercurrent in her.
--G. Eliot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a current which flows under the surface 2 (context figuratively English) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Undercurrent is a 1962 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans and jazz guitarist Jim Hall. They would collaborate again in 1966 for the follow-up album Intermodulation.
In his November 26, 1962 review for Down Beat magazine jazz critic Pete Welding states: "This collaboration between Evans and Hall has resulted in some of the most beautiful, throughly ingratiating music it has been my pleasure to hear..."
The front cover image for Undercurrent is Toni Frissell's photograph "Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida". The album was originally released on United Artists, then reissued by Solid State in 1968. More recently, the album was reissued on EMI/ Blue Note (in fact, both Blue Note and United Artists Records have been owned for a long time by EMI). The original LP and the first CD reissue featured a cropped, blue-tinted version, overlaid with the title and the Blue Note logo in white; but for the most recent (24-bit remastered) CD reissue, the image has been restored to its original black-and-white coloration and size, without lettering.
Undercurrent is a 1946 film noir drama directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay was written by Edward Chodorov, based on the novel You Were There by Thelma Strabel. The motion picture features Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, and others.
An undercurrent is a subsurface current, a water current which flows beneath and usually independently of surface currents.
Undercurrent may also refer to:
is a drama manga by manga author . The manga was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the monthly seinen magazine Afternoon from October 2004 to 2005, and the 11 chapters were collected into a single bound volume. A French translation was published by Kana in its collection Made in in 2008.
The story is set in the contemporary Japan, and follows the manager of a public bath Kanae whose husband vanished while traveling. The French edition of the manga was widely reviewed, being praised for its dreamlike qualities and calm pace, the richness of its emotions, and its characterization.
Undercurrent is an album by American pianist Kenny Drew recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label. It would be Drew's second and last effort for the label, and his last album recorded in the US before his 1961 move to Copenhagen. On the 2007 CD reissue, the album is erroneously given the catalogue number 84101 ( Royal Flush) instead of its own 84059.
Undercurrent is a 2010 Icelandic drama film, based on a play by the same name, and produced by the acclaimed theatre group Vesturport. The film won the Best Picture award at the 2011 Edda Awards in Iceland.
Undercurrent is a newspaper in Bowen Island, British Columbia published weekly.
Usage examples of "undercurrent".
He laughed with a little undercurrent of scorn in his laughter,-- and Theos saw as it were, the lightning of an angry or disdainful thought flashing through the sombre splendor of his eyes.
Congress was the strong undercurrent of Anglophobia that had run through the American psyche since the Revolution and which would not entirely disappear until the United States entered World War I on the side of Britain.
While our hero stalked ahead, stroking his luxuriant whiskers ever and anon, we pursued him at an interval so great that not the most alert citizen of Little Arcady could have suspected this sinister undercurrent to his simple life.
And, being acutely aware of all undercurrents here, Hume wondered what the small civ had actually seen.
The undercurrents of nonacademic publishing were unknown to her, and she was interested in almost everything.
He had no choice now but to offer his services to a man who had involved Pen in the serpentine undercurrents of conflicting diplomacies.
For Comus this first-night performance, with its brilliant gathering of spectators, its groups and coteries of lively talkers, even its counterfoil of dull chatterers, its pervading atmosphere of stage and social movement, and its intruding undercurrent of political flutter, all this composed a tragedy in which he was the chief character.
The constant buzz of lowered voices ran like an undercurrent at the edge of his hearing, phrases caught and lost, curses, muffled laughter and heartfelt weeping, whispered gossip.
Between trainers and jockeys there seemed to be an all-round edginess, sudden outbursts of rancor, and an ebbing and flowing undercurrent of resentment and distrust.
I relied upon my wits, constantly observing, gauging the ebb and flow of hatred, the secret alliances, the undercurrents of despair.
Far under the bridge the river smoothly swam, the undercurrents forever unfolding themselves upon the surface with a vast rose-like evolution, edged all round with faint lines of white, where the air that filled the water freed itself in foam.
She received us with great dignity, but yet there was an agreeable undercurrent in her voice and manner which I thought very promising.
The dark undercurrent of fretfulness and unease bubbled away like a caldron on the boil.
Audra, Colleen didn't feel the undercurrent of jealousy, jealousy that sometimes took form in vicious ways, that she sensed in other girls at the school.
Maybe it was this kind of thing, the undercurrents of unsaid Britishness, that had made her leave England in the first place?