22 adjectives to describe undercurrents

It could not be told in a thousand volumes, if I attempted to reproduce the subtle undercurrents of John Gray's life and mine.

Throughout the strife the leading clergy had sought to avoid taking sides, but as the king's attitude became more and more arbitrary, a steady undercurrent of resistance made itself felt.

We're gettin' old, Donald, you an' me," she added, with a guilty little undercurrent of thought in her mind.

For there was a deadly undercurrent of silence which would not tolerate more than murmurs on the part of others.

Beneath the tide of praise which was obviously due to the dead poet, there is an evident undercurrent of discussion about him; some charges of moral weakness were at least important enough to be authoritatively contradicted in the Nation; and, in connection with this and other things, there has been a continuous stir of comment upon his attraction to and gradual absorption in Catholic theological ideas.

We're gettin' old, Donald, you an' me," she added, with a guilty little undercurrent of thought in her mind.

" She laughed with an effort; her natural gaiety returned to buoy her above this indefinable undercurrent of unrest.

In most of the poetry of the time, religion, if at all noticeable, is a mere undercurrent; but whenever it rises to the surface, it reflects the ancient creed.

Even Jane and Meg, who ought to know better, keep up a perpetual undercurrent of chatter and giggle, whatever is going on, with any one who will share it with them.

As it was, his attention positively would not concentrate upon the rapid undercurrents, where the real energy of the habitues seemed to operate.

The sense of vacancy was awful, yet there was a singular undercurrent consciousness that no soul ever had been within her,that it existed, but was yet to be found.

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.

As yet no intestine war had broken out, but there existed a sullen undercurrent of discontent and disaffection which threatened, like the sound of distant thunder, to herald an approaching storm.

Mingled always with my love for him, my trust in him, was a tiny undercurrent of uncertainty as to the stability of my husband's affection for me.

Joe began again to feel the tragic undercurrents of life, the first time since the dark days following the fire.

There was a tremendous undercurrent of reaction against the prevalent cynical materialism and the vortex of fashion was also the cauldron of new aspirations and the battle-ground of wits.

A sinister mystery of love, death and blackmail runs, a turbid undercurrent, through the story.

And inwardly the sense of some unknown undercurrent that might grow into a rushing torrent made itself felt, stronger than before.

He was present at the poetic contests, and caught from the protagonists a reflection of their vivid, fitful eloquence, with its ceaseless undercurrent of monotony.

We greeted her gloomily, and she was as startled as ourselves at the news of the President's escape; at the same time I thought I detected an undercurrent of relief, not unnatural if we recollect her personal relations with the deposed ruler.

There was between this mother and daughter a continual undercurrent of possible antagonism, overlain and usually smothered out of sight by passionate attachment on both sides.

It is no good asking you even to imagine the curious undercurrent of psychological pleasure felt by a refined person under the seeming shock of melted lead."

22 adjectives to describe  undercurrents