Meaning of underpulse | Babel Free

Definitions

An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.

Examples

“He did nothing, as yet, which was really the reverse ; he did not make⟳ her his evident object, —it seems to me that this is always a high and delicate test⟳ of gentlemanhood, — and yet, to me, who felt an underpulse in all these things, there was a plain perception, that as it had been she from whom he went away, it was to her now that he was come⟳ back.”

“He began lightly, but her unforeseen surrender⟳ gave to the next words an underpulse of feeling that quite spoiled his response as comedy.”

“What was missing from the experience⟳, though, was the driving, knife-sharp underpulse of fear.”

“The music seems to have⟳ no particular sense⟳ of beginning or end⟳: it doesn't drive⟳ toward a cadence; it simply elaborates the big waves with little waves, underpulses, in the way that the surge of surf on a beach falls into long rhythms of tide and medium rhythms of regular wave⟳ fall⟳ and short rhythms of little splashes at the end⟳ of the regular wave⟳ fall⟳.”

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