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"ref": "1876 April, “Art. I.—Jonathan Swift. The Life of Jonathan Swift. By John Forster, Vol. I. London: John Murray.”, in The British Quarterly Review, American edition, volume LXIII, New York, N.Y.: Published by the Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 150, column 1:",
"text": "Voltaire showed little respect for any conventionality which did not command his acquiescence; yet it may be doubted whether an undercurrent of affectation does not more or less mar the effect of everything he has written.",
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"ref": "1977, James Monaco, “The Shape of Film History”, in How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 251:",
"text": "A vaguely defined genre (as the name announces, it was first noticed by the French), Film Noir is one of the more complex and intelligent Hollywood styles. Part detective story, part gangster, part urban melodrama, Film Noir was identified best by its dark and pessimistic undercurrents.",
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"ref": "2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao’s Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-04-25:",
"text": "Although the crowd was predominantly red-and-white, there was also a Romanian flavour, which these days in football terms tends to mean there is at least an undercurrent of discontent.",
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"ref": "2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road Might Already be the Best Action Movie Ever Made”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-02-22:",
"text": "The feminist undercurrents of Fury Road got a lot of ink when the movie came out; critics loved pointing out that [George] Miller had brought in The Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler as an on-set consultant.",
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"word": "subtext"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "current of water which flows under the surface",
"word": "暗流"
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"code": "ga",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "current of water which flows under the surface",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "ro",
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"masculine"
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"code": "ro",
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"masculine"
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"code": "ga",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"word": "cogar mogar"
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"ref": "1905, The Electrical Review, volume 56, London: H. Alabaster, Gatehouse & Company, →OCLC, page 154:",
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"ref": "1927, The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume 139, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, […], →OCLC, page 627, column 2:",
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"ref": "1996, Jane Lindskold, Smoke and Mirrors, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2005, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears (The Crowthistle Chronicles; 2), Sydney, N.S.W.: Tor Books, Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN; paperback edition, London: Tor, Pan Macmillan, 2006, →ISBN, page 367:",
"text": "Mining-wights could be heard at work in the walls, sometimes undercurrented by the drone and whirr of eldritch spinning wheels.",
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