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  • The stern-looking father who occupies the aisle seat has his attention interrupted by fits of vacancy—an expression so perfectly empty accompanies his sternness and his concentration that I think I glimpse an underlying truth to the man's churchgoing: that he is doing it only for the children, in the manner that some men with much vacancy of expression are committed to a marriage.†   (source)
  • There was something so defeated, so bitter, underlying the captain's words that Dorian, for a heartbeat, felt badly.†   (source)
  • And maybe it's because of that underlying goodness that he can move a crowd—no, a country—to his side with the turn of a simple sentence.†   (source)
  • Much like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being a really important member of the class.†   (source)
  • He possesses enormous talent, but I fear the fidgeting belies an underlying weakness.†   (source)
  • Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative.†   (source)
  • There was a watchful stillness to the photograph that lent an underlying chill to the warm room in which it hung.†   (source)
  • Ford leaped to his rescue, hazarding "...counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the ...er ..."†   (source)
  • And though she said nothing, and even denied it when confronted, I knew the underlying issue was the fact that I was supposed to be home for good and wasn't It was the first and only time that Savannah ever lied to me.†   (source)
  • They learned about the extended family clans that underlay the town's social structure.†   (source)
  • Underlying the speech was a strange hiss that made his scalp prickle.†   (source)
  • It was Nan, sounding unusually cheery, even though he felt he could hear the underlying sadness that lurked just beneath the surface of every conversation.†   (source)
  • In fact, I began to sense a greater underlying pattern to the way the wind moved through the courtyard.†   (source)
  • She's flying in a way we don't need to know the underlying myth of the flying Africans to comprehend.†   (source)
  • As a youngster it was very untogether to be labeled mentally ill because of a underlying cigarette habit.†   (source)
  • All the data I had received from Lieutenant Issaaia that morning had had an underlying taste of resentment, which grew momentarily stronger.†   (source)
  • John Root was so self-indulgent that there was a risk he might never draw upon his underlying power; Adler was essentially a technician, an engineer, a conscientious administrator....Unquestionably, Adler lacked sufficient imagination; so in a way did John Root—that is to say, the imagination of the dreamer.†   (source)
  • In the course of my investigations as to their source, I discovered a large and exceedingly noxious cesspool underlying every part of the cellars, in some places the consistency of a strong infusion of black tea, and in others like viscid soft soap, which was undrained due to the failure of the builders to connect the drains to the main sewer; in addition to which, the water supply for both drinking and washing was drawn through an intake pipe from the lake, in a stagnant bay, close by the pipe through which the main sewer discharged its putrid flow.†   (source)
  • They were looking for the underlying laws of nature.†   (source)
  • Do you think you can point to an underlying cause?†   (source)
  • From "Telekinesis: Analysis and Aftermath" (Science Yearbook 1981), by Dean D. L. McGuffin: There are, of course, still these scientists today-regretfully, the Duke University people are in their forefront-who reject the terrific underlying implications of the Carrie White affair.†   (source)
  • It would be good to know if he has any allergies or underlying medical conditions.†   (source)
  • This distinction between something and nothing-this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing-is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.†   (source)
  • There was a lot of underlying racism and a lot of baggage they brought with them.†   (source)
  • On one occasion the underlying conflict came into the open when I asked, "Why do we have to draw blood from this patient?†   (source)
  • Thinking as a private detective might, Vanger thought that the underlying motive for Harriet's murder might be found in the structure of the company—the fact that early on he had made it known that Harriet was special to him; the motive might have been to harm Vanger himself, or perhaps Harriet had discovered some sensitive information concerning the company and thereby became a threat to someone.†   (source)
  • With his deeper truthsense, Paul caught the underlying motive, had to use every ounce of his training to mask his excitement.†   (source)
  • No underlying agendas.†   (source)
  • It was true that he'd once sought unity, as if the underlying correspondences between tulips and lungs, veins and trees, flesh and earth, might reveal a pattern he could understand.†   (source)
  • But there had been something else underlying their words—something else that had them at odds.†   (source)
  • there must be something else, an underlying problem.†   (source)
  • Disoriented and confused though she may be, she is exerting all her strength to comprehend the logic underlying this place-the basis of its existence.†   (source)
  • Two years later, the workings of the conspiracy, and its underlying intentions, were exposed during a trial in Chicago.†   (source)
  • Whichever way we decide there's a terrible feeling of underlying treachery.†   (source)
  • The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.†   (source)
  • Underlying it all, a faint shimmer of silver that would reflect the light, magnify it.†   (source)
  • But action on these three measures would raise the underlying issues higher on the international affairs agenda, and would illustrate solutions to the problems.†   (source)
  • Shultz had a score of charges, but underlying them all was the implication that because of community pressure, Fleming and Smith had deliberately neglected their duties.†   (source)
  • I want you to find what you feel to be the principles that underlie true friendship, and I want you to be able to report to Mr. Hamilton an example of true friendship that demonstrates your principles.†   (source)
  • They all make fun of themselves-and each other-though their underlying confidence never seems jilted.†   (source)
  • The tension underlying his voice was a live wire.†   (source)
  • Any tb program that wanted low prices would have to prove to the committee that they had a good plan and a good underlying dots program, one that wouldn't breed further resistance.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bonn was directing the malakhim to lay out a suit of light armor comprised of ornate red plates sewn to an underlying garment of black leather.†   (source)
  • They were of like mind on most matters, including the underlying motives of the Comte de Vergennes.†   (source)
  • This hinted at an underlying humanity.†   (source)
  • An attraction to them, yes, but an underlying disdain.†   (source)
  • I could hear the underlying terror.†   (source)
  • But as Thomas led the group of eight out of the forest along the lip of the same canyon where they'd once trapped and slaughtered forty thou-sand of the Horde, he felt the same underlying dread he d once felt leaving the trees.†   (source)
  • I was going at it in terms of underlying form.†   (source)
  • But there is one underlying doubt that if proved justified cannot be tolerated.†   (source)
  • The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he's becoming white," joked another, but the humor masked an underlying question of why Jose Fax had moved his family from Salinas Avenue on the west side, where most Hispanics lived, to a tract home in a predominantly white neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Maybe in the end the facts are not as important as the underlying truth she wants to convey.†   (source)
  • The cut spi-raled gently from just beyond the elbow to just above the wrist, and underlying the pain was a chill lack of feeling, as if the flesh were dead or dying.†   (source)
  • Therefore, as the sergeant had stressed in his underlying message: I had to do something to change my present course.†   (source)
  • But I also encountered an underlying respect and affection for America.†   (source)
  • But although we felt less anxiety than we had at any time for nearly a year, an underlying effect remained, a sense of warning, with a sharpened awareness that we were set apart, with the safety of all of us lying in the hands of each.†   (source)
  • Dragon killing was approved of by all, except possibly the trolls, who may have gotten Olaf's underlying message of "Look, I killed a dragon, so don't mess with me."†   (source)
  • He and his people had come to pillage Tin-Towns, yet Bruenor's underlying attitude seemed more the concern of a stern father than the callous perspective of a slave's master.†   (source)
  • That was the sliver of justification underlying the attempted coup d'etat just before the Treaty of New Delhi, the so-called 'Revolt of the Scientists': let the intelligent elite run things and you'll have utopia.†   (source)
  • The problem with nitro was that it only treated symptoms, not the underlying coronary disease.†   (source)
  • The underlying sense of what's presented these days is that this country has difference that ails rather than strengthens and enriches.†   (source)
  • I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.†   (source)
  • A few showed January, as if the months on the underlying pages had no longer been turned or torn away.†   (source)
  • This feeling underlay the well-advertised resolve of Sher-man's soldiers to take South Carolina apart.†   (source)
  • You never get to any of the underlying truth.†   (source)
  • A brief thaw the previous day had allowed the plane's skis to sink into an inch or two of slush, where they had frozen solid to the underlying ice.†   (source)
  • There comes a point in a narrative like this one when a certain injection of irony seems inappropriate, perhaps even "counterindicated"—despite the underlying impulse toward it—because of the manner in which irony tends so easily toward leadenness, thus taxing the reader's patience along with his or her credulity.†   (source)
  • These 10 days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people, but it also bore out some of my longstanding concerns about our Nation's underlying problems.†   (source)
  • They were as aggressive, but without Ferdinand's underlying graciousness.†   (source)
  • The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.†   (source)
  • It took me a long time but I soon became aware of an underlying, pervasive fixation for violence among the people of the island.†   (source)
  • You could grasp the mechanics of the Society you lived in, but not its underlying motives.   (source)
    underlying = causing
  • First, that complex systems like weather have an underlying order.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.†   (source)
  • But what is this underlying order?†   (source)
  • We can find an underlying order.†   (source)
  • This is the underlying discovery of Noetic Science.†   (source)
  • The real underlying flaw in your life, Mackenzie, is that you don't think that I am good.†   (source)
  • The underlying import of his words began to take over in her mind, pushing all else aside.†   (source)
  • Underlying the speech was a strange hiss that made his scalp prickle.†   (source)
  • They have a lot of contacts I would have to say the underlying motive is financial or economic.†   (source)
  • There was an underlying note of violation and menace.†   (source)
  • Mariam detected a shadow on his face, a darkness underlying the coppery light of dusk.†   (source)
  • In every phase of the surgery, this was the underlying question.†   (source)
  • "Hmmm," he said, "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor ..."†   (source)
  • To assume that what we perceive has its own underlying 'substance' is jumping to conclusions.†   (source)
  • MANTENE: underlying wisdom, supporting argument, first principle.†   (source)
  • The point is, we are not aware of the underlying connection.†   (source)
  • But there are so many whirling motives and underlying possibilities and so whats and why nots.†   (source)
  • She met my eyes, and I could suddenly see the symmetry underlying her deformity.†   (source)
  • There was an underlying strength to her embrace, the kind of muscle tone that came from hard work.†   (source)
  • Since coming to the United States, Deo had read some of the history that underlay what he'd endured.†   (source)
  • Because underlying all those other things is this bottomless despair and it just...hollows you out.†   (source)
  • Can you name a belief that underlies your actions?†   (source)
  • The Theorem of underlying Katherine Predictability, he thought.†   (source)
  • Still, it maintained that underlying mystique that drew crowds of dreamers.†   (source)
  • It should be grudging, with underlying urgency.†   (source)
  • Yet underlying the uniqueness of each crisis is a disturbing sameness.†   (source)
  • She could tell from the nervous tension underlying his jokes.†   (source)
  • She understood the underlying meaning of his statement, tried to accept that he was done with her.†   (source)
  • But he thinks he can count on this fellow to see the underlying subject, the turn of mind.†   (source)
  • I've been thinking about concepts that underlie it for twenty years," I say.†   (source)
  • Yet a hint of mischief underlay his expression, making him seem younger.†   (source)
  • The underlying source of conflict was straightforward.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar peeled away the hide of the animal and began scraping away the underlying layer of fat.†   (source)
  • There was no hint of any underlying tension.†   (source)
  • What could be more underlying than death?†   (source)
  • It frightened her, the anger underlying his words.†   (source)
  • In some places, the skin almost separated from the underlying tissue.†   (source)
  • The briefings were strong and the analysis underlying them was spot-on.†   (source)
  • I want to talk about the underlying form of the world of underlying form itself.†   (source)
  • Now I think it's right to talk about that world of underlying form from its own point of view.†   (source)
  • It's designed to change the underlying form of the machine.†   (source)
  • If she didn't, she'd probably get caught up with another David-a handsome man who craved the good things in life with the underlying assumption that he didn't have to play by the rules.†   (source)
  • She was looking at him with that disconcerting expression of matemal love and tenderness , disconcerting because of the total solid blackness underlying it.†   (source)
  • There is a simple network of wide tunnels that directly corresponds to the main street plan above, underlying the major avenues and cross streets.†   (source)
  • Quite the opposite: that all that extra information isn't actually an advantage at all; that, in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon.†   (source)
  • Although they may sound as if they don't have very much in common, they share a basic, underlying pattern.†   (source)
  • John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern.†   (source)
  • He began reading books about law and politics and attending meetings of the Single-Tax Club, which embraced Henry George's belief that private landowners should pay a tax, essentially rent, to reflect the underlying truth that land belonged to everyone.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Awn would have been stiffly polite, with an underlying anger that I would have been able to see, but she would never have had that sinking dismay and hurt she felt when then—Lieutenant Skaaiat said, unthinkingly, something dismissive.†   (source)
  • Because of his researches for Misery, he had rather more than a layman's understanding of neurosis and psychosis, and he knew that although a borderline psychotic might have alternating periods of deep depression and almost aggressive cheerfulness and hilarity, the puffed and infected ego underlay all, positive that all eyes were upon him or her, positive that he or she was staffing in a great drama; the outcome was a thing for which untold millions waited with held breath.†   (source)
  • What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.†   (source)
  • Hume pointed out that we have no underlying 'personal identity' beneath or behind these perceptions and feelings which come and go.†   (source)
  • GRABEN: a long geological ditch formed when the ground sinks because of movements in the underlying crustal layers.†   (source)
  • So, like Thales, he thought that there must be an underlying substance that is the source of all natural change.†   (source)
  • PAN: on Arrakis, any low-lying region or depression created by the subsiding of the underlying basement complex.†   (source)
  • Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling.†   (source)
  • Eragon took a minute to collect himself and consider everything he knew about Arya: her likes and dislikes, her habits and mannerisms, the important events of her life, what she feared and what she hoped for, and most importantly, her underlying temperament—that which dictated her approach to life ....and to fighting.†   (source)
  • Because a person tends to run into the same people with regularity —while shopping, driving, attending church, going to parties—an underlying courtesy has taken root in this town, and it is often possible to do things that may seem impossible elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Underlying all this suspicion of reason on my part is the consummate belief that Sukeena possesses a wealth of knowledge that even Madame Lu may not match.†   (source)
  • Amanda could easily sense her daughter's underlying message: that writing was a task not to be discussed with nonwriters.†   (source)
  • As the glacier inched over humps and dips in the Cum's underlying strata, it fractured into countless vertical fissures-crevasses.†   (source)
  • The smell of ashes and smoke hung heavy on the air, familiar to her from the last time she was here—but there was something else underlying those smells, a heavier, thicker stench, like rotting fruit.†   (source)
  • The details of Saphira's remarks were complex, but the underlying structure of her presentation was straightforward.†   (source)
  • But the underlying message, that the Ranta brothers had decided to take a breather in Tallinn for the foreseeable future, did not do much to calm Sandström's nerves.†   (source)
  • Although contemporary in design there was an underlying sense of function and an absence of eye-pleasing touches.†   (source)
  • And yet still I have always wondered if training or rearing tells more than the simple earth and ash and blood from which we come, or whether these social inurements eventually fall away, like the moldering garments of the dead, to reveal the underlying bones.†   (source)
  • Nightingales chirped from within gilded cages and flowers abounded: purple orchids, stargazer lilies, brilliant red tulips, and others so exotic and lush that they suggested an underlying magic or technology at work.†   (source)
  • It's the precise opposite of what has passed for normal his whole life, one spent around those whose underlying self-confidence was easily punctured.†   (source)
  • The English historian and novelist Tobias Smollett had written of the inevitable distrust felt by every visitor to London, the underlying fear of being taken.†   (source)
  • And underlying their emotions, and those of everyone present, was an awareness of the importance of the moment, for they knew they were witnessing the end of one age and the beginning of another.†   (source)
  • "Just so we all understand," Cotton said, "Louisa would just be selling the underlying mineral rights."†   (source)
  • Colin knew nothing about poker except that it was a game of human behavior and probability, and therefore the kind of quasi-closed system in which a Theorem similar to the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability ought to work.†   (source)
  • As for the sustainability of the underlying business model, Roshaneh says crisply: "Our return on equity is seven and a half percent.†   (source)
  • Their underlying motives were no less varied than the motives of Western climbers, but at least part of the incentive was job security: as Lopsang explained, 'After Sherpa climbs Everest, easy to find work.†   (source)
  • And yet, underlying all this, as the color of his blood lay under his dark sunburn, was both delicacy and reticence.†   (source)
  • He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn.†   (source)
  • The iron resolve of genuinely dedicated Union veterans underlay the message conveyed by a dispatch from the American correspondent of the London Daily News to his paper in September, 1864.†   (source)
  • A sliver of space appeared around each of the small scales that rimmed Saphira's eye as the underlying flesh softened.†   (source)
  • 'Camp Controller Harris discovered the discrepancy in the Calm Control at 05:23 the following morning, after noticing an underlying frequency that had been added without his consent.†   (source)
  • Now, for instance, he could smell the sweat of doubt in the room, and the underlying sharp tang of fear.†   (source)
  • The underlying problem was that Boukreev's notion of his responsibilities differed substantially from Fischer' S. As a Russian, Boukreev came from a tough, proud, hardscrabble climbing culture that did not believe in coddling the weak.†   (source)
  • They walk in a fragmented trance, stop and go, clusters of well-dressed figures frozen in the aisles, trying to figure out the pattern, discern the underlying logic, trying to remember where they'd seen the Cream of Wheat.†   (source)
  • The thicker the solution of clay, the slower the underlying metal would cool when it was quenched and, as a result, the softer that area of the sword would become.†   (source)
  • That may be because it is newer there and the models haven't been adjusted, or because populations are more rural and dispersed, or because the underlying economies are growing more slowly and so investment opportunities are fewer.†   (source)
  • Despite America's long-standing "special relationship" with Great Britain, the underlying cultural ties between the United States and Germany, though less obvious, are equally strong.†   (source)
  • For each and every stroke, and for each of the lovely thunderclaps in the delirious music above, Alessandro heard ever-so-faintly another music that underlay it all, beyond which was no other, and that was perfectly appropriate both to the elated dancing in the ballroom and his torment in the cellar, because it tied them together and made them equally inconsequential.†   (source)
  • This is one of the underlying themes of the systems business, where all the work connects at levels and geographic points far removed from the desk toil and lab projects of the researchers.†   (source)
  • As he and Arya went from person to person, Eragon was also aware, through his link with Saphira, of the elves' faint, lilting chanting, which underlay everything he heard, like a strip of cunningly woven fabric hidden beneath the surface of the world.†   (source)
  • Frustrated with his rambling about music and careers, Cedric feels an urge to be more clear, more succinct, to get to the underlying point.†   (source)
  • His bedrock integrity, his spirit of independence, his devotion to country, his marriage, his humor, and a great underlying love of life were all still very much intact.†   (source)
  • Of course things were strained right now, but I didn't think any of the underlying foundation had changed.†   (source)
  • Brian listened to all this and he heard the music end and begin again, the same piano piece, and this was not the second time he was hearing it but maybe the eighth or ninth, and he listened to Marvin's dot theory of reality and felt an underlying force in this theme of the relentless photographic search, some prototype he could not bring into tight definition.†   (source)
  • That single fact underlies everything.†   (source)
  • A flickering sea-blue shimmer ran from the base of Saphira's head to the crest of her shoulders as the tips of the sharp, diamond-shaped scales along the sides of her neck rose a fraction of an inch from the underlying skin.†   (source)
  • Each of their stories was different, yet somehow familiar, linked by common elements — the same struggle to receive proper medical care, the same fear of speaking out, the same underlying corporate indifference.†   (source)
  • Although the McDonald brothers had never encountered the term "throughput" or studied "scientific management," they instinctively grasped the underlying principles and applied them in the Speedee Service System.†   (source)
  • It was obvious that the Ra'zac had severed part of the muscle and that the two ends had failed to heal back together, for an unsightly bulge deformed the skin below the scar, where the underlying fibers had recoiled upon themselves.†   (source)
  • Upon first inspection, the light appeared uniform, but the longer Eragon gazed at it, the more details he saw within it: small eddies and currents that coiled and twisted in seemingly random directions, darker motes that barely moved at all, and flurries of bright flashes no larger than the head of a pin that would flare for a moment, then fade back into the underlying field of light.†   (source)
  • The world of underlying form is an unusual object of discussion because it is actually a mode of discussion itself.†   (source)
  • A memo sought to explain the underlying psychology behind many visits to McDonald's: parents took their children to McDonald's because they "want the kids to love them ...it makes them feel like a good parent."†   (source)
  • Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.†   (source)
  • On average, the fur was a quarter-inch long-a smooth, flexible armor that mirrored the shape and movement of the underlying muscles-but on his ankles and the undersides of his forearms, it extended a full two inches, and between his shoulder blades, there was a ruffled mane that stuck out a handsbreadth from his body and tapered down along his back to the base of his spine.†   (source)
  • It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.†   (source)
  • The wind gusted toward them, carrying with it the screams of dying men and horses, the shivery sound of metal sliding over metal, the clink of swords glancing off helmets, the dull impact of spears on shields, and, underlying it all, a horrible humorless laughter that issued from a multitude of throats and continued without pause throughout the mayhem.†   (source)
  • That is another name of the classic platform from which one discusses things in terms of their underlying form.†   (source)
  • In doing so we will be entering Phaedrus' world, the only world he ever knew, in which all understanding is in terms of underlying form.†   (source)
  • The ghost he pursued was the ghost that underlies all of technology, all of modern science, all of Western thought.†   (source)
  • Previously I was discussing his world of underlying form, or at least the aspect of it called technology, from an external view.†   (source)
  • The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws...which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.†   (source)
  • I want to pursue further now that same ghost that Phaedrus pursued...rationality itself, that dull, complex, classical ghost of underlying form.†   (source)
  • The dirt, the grease, the mastery of underlying form required all give it such a negative romantic appeal that women never go near it.†   (source)
  • The underlying problems are the same.†   (source)
  • They are looking at underlying form.†   (source)
  • So I backed up and shifted to the classic-romantic split that I think underlies the whole humanist-technological problem.†   (source)
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