Furthermore, although originally multiethnic in composition, the protest and ensuing violence quickly assumed interracial overtones, with politicians airing grievances and even calling for more violence.

Little relief is in the offing from new construction, an issue that has assumed political overtones because of the unpopularity of three nuclear power plants.

The fighting has also assumed tribal overtones, reflecting latent rivalries between Zulus and Xhosas, the country's second-largest tribe, whose members including many of the congress' leadership.

Because the Western Emperor Eugenius (though nominally Christian) had pagan sympathies, the war assumed religious overtones, with Christianity pitted against the last attempt at a pagan revival.

It celebrated that which was outside civilized society and a return to the source of being-which would later assume mystical overtones.

Enimont's rise and fall in a period of less than three years remains a great mystery - one that has assumed sinister overtones.

When the fighting started in the Transvaal, spreading from township to township and centering on the hostels for single men where many Zulu migrant workers live, it quickly assumed tribal overtones, pitting Zulus against non-Zulus.

Later, it becomes a somewhat unwieldy allegory in which the search for a casualty of war assumes Conradian allegorical overtones.

Being close to Epameinondas X. Gonatas and Ektor Kaknavatos, he cultivated the vein of a lyrical surrealism, which after his first two books became increasingly mild, whereas his work assumed explicitly metaphysical overtones from then on.

He is a political artist to the core, and in his hands activism assumes distinctly religious overtones.