substratum

It “supports diverse biological communities representative of hard substratum in deep water” according to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

They are retiring and quirky at the same time, emerging from the substratum of shyness on which Enigmatic Andy the Superstar was constructed.

In 2018, it’s easy to dismiss the concept of Queer Eye as reductive: five gay men, possessing expertise across the fashion and lifestyle substratum, make over a hapless straight man.

Even here, though, abyssal tuba notes exposed a sonic substratum.

For Roth, Judaism was substratum, a world to which he always returned but was never afraid to leave, even if only for Manhattan or the Berkshires.