Underpulse

Quick meaning: Underpulse is a noun meaning An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.

Meaning

An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• underpulses

Related Words

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