emotional undertow

Even President Bush seemed caught in the emotional undertow.

Like Zoe's mother, the artist is always vulnerable to the emotional undertow that defeats not only art but life.

Perhaps there was already an emotional undertow deep inside me which tried to make me vaguely cognizant of the futility of my plan to escape.

But even in the glitzier numbers, Mr. Laurents burrows into the emotional undertow beneath the turn.

For 14 years Mr. van Noten, one of fashion's most cerebral designers, has turned out sophisticated clothes with a curiously strong emotional undertow.

Rather than a literal translation, the Ridge production, directed by Bob McGrath, offered a poetic abstraction of the music's emotional undertow.

But all too often the results are decorative and arbitrary, and devoid of the striking originality and brooding emotional undertow that has characterized his strongest work.

What was always striking was the emotional undertow to Taverner's polyphonic writing, more obviously involving than the ethereal Palestrina.

It's clunky and full of clearly labeled metaphors for humankind's existential loneliness (life is a carnival thrill ride, brief and meaningless), but it has an authentic emotional undertow.

He was as little discommoded by the emotional undertow as he was by the thin and frigid air the Rigellian crew maintained inside the battlecraft.

The range of Mr. Grooms's art both expands and quiets down; his satirizing virtuosity gains a compelling emotional undertow that it does not always have in the round.

It was Laurents who imagined the monster mother, Mama Rose, and structured the primal family drama that courses beneath the jaunty dance routines and sweet-and-sour melodies, a powerful emotional undertow that streams alongside the roaring music.

Where the Miramax version eliminates many dramatic moments, reducing the film to a choppy series of physical gags, Mr. Chow's original features far more fully developed characters and an emotional undertow that gives meaning to the sometimes violent jokes.

The one exception among the larger works is "Wreath," whose short, hard-edged orange diagonal optically activates a field of soft vertical stripes while also triggering an emotional undertow - associations with death notices and black armbands - even before we learn the title.

But Templeton's fiction resists pigeonholing, in large part because of an emotional undertow - a subtle, almost subliminal engagement with a kind of sexual longing that hinges on a perceived discrepancy in power - which pulls it in a different, more audacious direction.

Film Comment was equally taken with the film, stating that "what's most remarkable about the film is how moving it is finally, how much is at stake after all--nothing Rivette has done before prepares you for the emotional undertow that exerts itself in The Story of Marie and Juliens final scenes."