0 an emotion, belief, or characteristic of a situation that is hidden and usually negative or dangerous but that has some effect: --
1 a hidden emotion or belief that is usually negative or harmful and has an indirect effect: --
This discussion also leads into an interesting discourse on religious undercurrents within the region.
These undercurrents then raise the issues of the nature of disciplinary regimes and also the relationship between the official discourses of penance and popular culture.
However, there are strong undercurrents in this relationship which have also been much highlighted.
Some of this ideological diversity comes through in the final chapter, but for most of the book it remains an undercurrent.
It has no emotional overtones and no political undercurrents either.
Such impressions are at times registered in dissonant eruptions and ominous harmonic undercurrents which disturb but do not quite rupture the music's lyrical flow.
In addition to neutral facets of these interchanges, such as communication skills, this process involves more emotionally charged undercurrents, most notably power issues.
The negative relationship between pension changes and two variables - rising pensioner population and unemployment rate - reveals crucial economic undercurrents of the transition.
