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Перевод: undertow

[существительное]
отлив прибоя; подводное течение, противоположное течению на поверхности; нижняя жила

Тезаурус:

1. In an absorbing, epic quest for the self, the humour, occasional nostalgia and vibrancy of the novel's language fail to deflect from an undertow of melancholy and the sense of irrecoverable loss.
2. This Day and Age also runs away with many of the currents of that loosely-defined genre - a dark, religious undertow, political brutality, and a struggle for survival rooted in peasant experience.
3. As if impelled by some nameless undertow, the mass of people gently flowed towards the doorway, some still holding their sherry glasses aloft.
4. What was always striking was the emotional undertow to Taverner's polyphonic writing, more obviously involving than the ethereal Palestrina.
5. He came calling for Europe to work towards economic integration to ensure that the democratic hopes of people in the East did not give way to an opposite undertow of disillusion.
6. Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring, he was full of himself, sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour.
7. But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on, that's more worrying.
8. From the start of this modest but compelling chiller, you sense that the family, moving to suburban Indiana in 1958, has got a skewed and sinister undertow.
9. The piano introduction to the song washed gently over the audience and carried them in its undertow towards glorious possibilities.
10. Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss: a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead "rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies".
11. But for some the undertow is too strong and they are sucked away to navigate unexplored tributaries of the Amazon, encounter the tribes of remotest Papua New Guinea, cross Australia by camel, or Asia by bicycle, or walk to the North Pole - alone.
12. The wave had a great deal of undertow.
13. His was a rolling, jabbing prose, with an undertow of weariness; the best stuff on the subject somehow steals the speeds of the sport.