Both Uses of
underlie
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Well, that too was a fate to be shared and another underlying bitterness.†
Chpt 11 *
- It was so ambiguous and inside-out as to who had paid the price that it had to be taken as amusing, and she hurried and came down from a romantic, sentimental position and denied it all by pretending that this randy talk was the joke of sincerity and deep underlying agreement, a more realistic sort of love.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
is the root cause or basis for something;
or: lie underneath
or: lie underneath