Example collocations logo

Undertones in sentence

46 examples of Undertones in a sentence

Now, as it turns out, I'm a neuroscientist, so I knew that the memory of that person and the awful, emotional undertones that color in that memory, are largely mediated by separate brain systems.
The only thing which raises my interest in this movie above total indifference is its dogmatic Christian undertones.
Instead of ending with the heavy-handed religious mumbo jumbo, the film should have kept the focus on being a frothy road movie with maybe some undertones about fate and superstition vs. logic peppered through.
All the characters are sick in the head, so the least I expected (or hoped for) were more perverted undertones or frenzied themes.
The movie is very American and, as such, has some metaphysical undertones to counterbalance its criticism of religious intolerance.
There was a farce-like attitude about this work with touching undertones of innocent wonder.
Ponyo is a beautiful animated film with some dark undertones.
When there is a festival called Horrorfest, I am expecting horror, not Dawsons Creek with incestuous undertones.
With occult/supernatural undertones, this nice low-budget French movie caught my attention from the very first scene.
Are they comedies with dramatic undertones, or dramas with a lot of humor?
The environmental, anthropological undertones are way ahead of its time.
I think of this movie as more of a comedy with undertones of romance.
This is a romantic drama with many humorous undertones and a quick wit.
Throw in a little black comedy and undertones of erotic sexual repression you've got the makings of a great film.
There were I feel undertones of black and white view points.
But it's not quite as satisfying as "The Body Snatcher" on the same Burke/Hare theme because it doesn't engage the dark undertones of the human psyche through its sadistic "graverobbers" as much as the Karloff film, but instead dwells more on the scientific ethics issues.
Moreover, Jackson tosses in occasional "what the hell?" unexpected oddball moments: Denise gives Johnny a rubdown in a scene that's simmering with incestuous undertones and in one especially startling sequence a creepy pedophile assaults a little girl in a bathroom.
Though attempting to make a low-budget horror film with serious undertones about the dark recesses of the unconscious mind, he has instead put a group of very capable actors into a series of macabre scenes - some of which are quite good - but that don't add up to much.
It is a light work with some sombre undertones from the military setting: we are after all in the summer of 1914, and the gallant young officers will soon be facing the terrors of the Great War.
It's worth a look, the musical numbers are great but the plot somehow meanders, and is only of real interest because of the looming Nazi undertones.
It is a movie which should appeal to everyone between the ages of 8 and 80! It has child-like fantasy aspects to it (with lots of special-effects included) and it has more adult overtones and undertones as well.
Contains the dark undertones present in other Corbucci (and Leone) westerns, but not to as great an extent as his masterpiece, "The Great Silence".
Fellini's SATYRICON is one of the true art-movies of the late 60ties European cinema, it's extravagance of color, religious undertones, philosophical questioning and eroticism is captivating.
Classic story with modern undertones.
I think that the writers of the screenplay were a bit uncomfortable with the religious undertones to Jane's goodness and for her leaving Edward.
Seemed to really push the envelope for that time period in terms of gay and trans-gender undertones - what with the pirate captain's attachment to his butler and to his androgynous second in command (the character who paraded around in a dress and feathers and appeared much more interested in Will than in Arabella).
The film is not as heavy as some of her other work, although there are some sad undertones.
The film sags in the first hour because there is too much exposition (and some attempts at social-drama undertones), and it doesn't much improve when the actual heist begins.
The best part is that the usual homoerotic undertones of buddy-cop movies are so misplaced in this film that the sexual chemistry is hotter between the mismatched police 'partners' (pun intended) than between the pseudo-Adonis Aussie and his unattractive female Asian lover.
Muccino's "L'ultimo bacio" (to be avoided like the plague!) and his latest, "Ricordati di me", are prime examples of Berlusconi-era cinema: pretty-to-look-at but pointless, riddled with stoopid cliches, pre-packed, pre-digested conclusions, conservative, moralistic and misogynistic undertones that pass for brave portrayals of modern Italy (yeah right), hollow cynicism and shallow "portraits" of middle-class malaise that are merely a smug, self-referential celebration of this milieu (Muccino's own).