undertones

Example Sentences

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Stagflationary undertones were present in the ISM services print, however, Fjaerstedt said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

"It has a lot of threads around grief, as the boys lose their mum, and so there are some really serious undertones to it," Michelle says.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

And if you’ve worked for men cozying up to the new boss, you’ll recognize the undertones of organizational zealotry in “Severance.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood