The smooth richness of their diction; the amiable sweetness of their mood, their gracious caprice, the delicacy of their satire (which was so kind that it should have some other name), their abundance of light and color, and the deep heart of humanity
underlying their airiest fantasticality, all united in an effect which was different from any I had yet known.
We do not know the inexorable law
underlying coincidences.
In most of Tu Fu's work there is an
underlying sadness which appears continually, sometimes in the vein that runs throughout the poem, sometimes at the conclusion, and often at the summing up of all things.
In both words the
underlying idea is that of a body of men united by an oath.
This strange blending of odours consisted of something faintly and unpleasantly aromatic, mixed with another
underlying smell, so unutterably sickening that he threw open the window, and put his head out into the fresh air, unable to endure the horribly infected atmosphere for a moment longer.
Levin saw that there was an idea
underlying this question with which he did not agree.
These specific limitations, it will be evident, are outgrowths of his great
underlying deficiency--the deficiency in spiritual feeling and insight.
Very rarely, therefore, did any one seek the motives
underlying his praiseworthy turn for thrift; for it pleased others, for the most part, to set it down to a not unnatural wish to increase the amount of the savings that were to render his old age comfortable.
Her strong black brows spoke of temper easily aroused and hard to quiet; her mouth was small, nervous and weak; there was something dangerous and sulky
underlying, in her nature, much that was honest, compassionate, and even noble.
He said that he considered the principles
underlying all volunteer service fundamentally wrong, and that it seemed to him that calling for volunteers reflected upon the courage and loyalty of the entire command.
In the same way, an
underlying mockery impaired the attraction of his otherwise refined and gentle manner.
There was something
underlying the charming expression and the fascinating manner which my instinct felt to be something wrong.
