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It meant fun, with the serious undertow of showing what Texan women could do.
ECONOMIST: Ann Richards
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And, as with the duo's forebears, there's a ferocious lyrical undertow to Kings of Convenience's gentle songs.
NPR: Kings Of Convenience: Honey-Dipped Fury
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Her green eyes meet mine, and the little twinge of sadness I was feeling turns into an undertow.
NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)
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How can these companies boost their chances of riding the Chinese wave rather than being dragged down by the undertow?
ECONOMIST: Schumpeter
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With all artists, because of the undertow of history and self-loathing, there is a tremendous push toward self-obliteration that occurs onstage.
NEWYORKER: We Are Alive
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An occasional heroic sprint may be required to get us out of a danger spot and avoid a whirlpool or an undertow.
FORBES: No Weiner Jokes: Lessons from a Truly Unfunny Situation
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Germany, despite hints of a Japanese-style undertow, has just voted for stasis.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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In an influential strategy memo he wrote in 1994, Kristol warned of an undertow toward a national health care system and told Republican lawmakers to resist the tide.
NPR: Much at Stake in Defining Social Security 'Crisis'
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The undertow of defiance in all this was quite deliberate.
ECONOMIST: Liz Claiborne
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In The Corrections there are passages which take the book off in what seems like a totally different direction, but the undertow of anxiety and despair is always there.
BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript
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The undertow to all this is deflation.
ECONOMIST: Japan��s economy
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It is indifferently acted and in too much of a rush for quick hits to establish anything like the lull and swell of a real rave -- there's no undertow, no rapture, just a randomized string of highs and lows.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Patriotism and unity are likely to be his watch words, as his advisers check the progress of Isaac on their blackberries and iPhones, fingers crossed the boss does not get dragged into choppy waters by any ghostly undertow off the Gulf.
BBC: Republicans haunted by ghosts of Katrina