subaqueous

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Sebald’s quiet, bashful, mysteriously subaqueous prose brings alive the paradoxical combination of drift and paralysis that has afflicted these lives.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

Ashley, G. M. Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms: a new look at an old problem-SEPM bedforms and bedding structures.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

In this dark subaqueous space the water is lit by horizontal shafts of light that stir the pattern on the coffered concrete ceiling.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

With their subaqueous palette, these paintings seem to luxuriate in a kind of cosmic depression, the way we do in adolescence, when we’re living on caffeine, dreams and nerves.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2010

Straightway a violent subaqueous crackling announced that live steam from the boilers was performing its allotted task of taking the chill off.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian