undercurrent

Downplaying Trump’s incendiary threats of violence until just a few weeks before the election, provided both tacit and explicit sanction to xenophobic, racist and authoritarian impulses that have long simmered in the American undercurrent.

But Schneider’s normcore exterior belies an undercurrent of intensity: There’s a particular, obsessive mindset required to conceive of and execute such an ambitious public expedition every year over two decades.

But there was an undercurrent of fear — not only about the result, but about what it will say about the character of the nation.

The case is still being investigated, but the riots shook the nation and reflected an undercurrent of anger that had been building for years over the way ethnic minorities are treated in France.

A previous review, carried out in 2013 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, suggested there was "a strong undercurrent of fear" at the BBC when addressing issues of bullying.