Rupert Penry-Jones

I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

English Actor

Lionel Shriver

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

American Journalist

Stanley Marcus

I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

American Businessman

Kristin Gore

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

American Author

Charles Kuralt

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Michael Eric Dyson

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Stephen Gardiner

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

British Architect

Rajkumar Hirani

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

Indian Director

Roger Morris

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

American Public Servant

Refers to the actual bottom side of an object you can touch.

Physical Literalness

Often used to describe specific details not immediately visible.

Tangible Details

Used to identify parts usually not seen or considered.

Hidden Area

Figuratively refers to the negative aspects of a situation or thing.

Metaphorical Use

Can imply a sense of discovery about the darker aspects.

Emotional Connotation

Highlights the contrast between visible façade and concealed truth.

Contrastive Insight

 more accessible and more enjoyable. Underneath the FDR, we are putting, like, pavilions with pocket walls that can slide out and protect from the water. We are creating little stepped terraces that are going to make the underside more enjoyable, but also protect from flooding.

Floating cities, the...

 Okay, there's a few that chocolate can't fix. But that's what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything, if you let it. I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist

If I should have a...

 inner can where I've got some newspaper and just a small handful of twigs which is gonna light in a second and on the bottom of the outer can there's a row of air holes and also underside of the inner can so when this is lit it draws the air up through the fire to keep it

How to rebuild the world...

 Jellyfish don't have typical digestive systems, either. These gelatinous carnivores consume plankton and other small sea creatures through a hole in the underside of their bells. The nutrients are absorbed by an inner layer of cells

Jellyfish predate...

 these birds mate for life and the male reaffirms the bond by displaying to the female they're building a mud nest on the underside of the boulders overhang where it'll be protected from the rain

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 front legs giving the elements a helping hand on the top deck the workers tend the pupae and larvae below deck workers clean and maintain the underside of the raft

Ants Ingenious Survival...

 These birds mate for life and the male reaffirms the bond by displaying to the female. They're building a mud nest on the underside of the boulder's overhang,

These Ancient Birds Have...

 existence in his later teachings he saw the underside of life constantly he experienced it it was his life

Who Was Jesus? PIPE...

 the female extrudes her eggs onto the underside of a leaf each protected within its own miniature pool

Top 5 Slithering Snake...

 it has a soft underside titan triggerfish play an important role in keeping numbers at healthy levels

Underside