subtext

Example Sentences

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Yet the subtext is less important than the surface: The movie is simply a witless bore.

From The Wall Street Journal

All this and a subtext of relationships among the leading artists of the period.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I think religion is a subtext in the various spaces and conversations where we imagined it to be absent,” the exhibition’s curator, Azra Dawood, told Religion News Service in a recent interview at the museum.

From Washington Post

“I think the French got a lot of the gay subtext of ‘Billy Budd’ long before the English started writing about it,” he said.

From New York Times

There is an additional layer of subtext here.

From New York Times