subtext in English

noun
1
an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation.
The question then becomes, how do we read a work of fiction one of whose subtexts is the events of '48 and its consequences?

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "subtext" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "subtext", or refer to the context using the word "subtext" in the English Dictionary.

1. The Beckoning is a contemporary suspense thriller with a historical subtext

2. Europe's divisions are the subtext of a new movie thriller called Zentropa.

3. A subtext the movie never comments on is the omnipresence of attractive Asian women.

4. The political subtext of her novel is a criticism of government interference in individual lives.

5. Little goody-two-shoes went the subtext; prim and virtuous, but without adventure, energy, or an independent spirit.

6. Their subtext was that this was a devoted husband and a decent chap, not the apprentice dictator that his detractors portrayed.

7. When you're talking about the implied subtext of words rather than their literal meaning, reach for the noun Connotation

8. With this accusation of the misuse of borrowed funds, we recognize the strange and, I think in this context, rather ill-fitting subtext behind Comus' seduction.

9. The Conceit is an implicit narrative of subtext: the quirk “would have happened” or “would happen” in the case of these developments taking place

10. There's so much subtext with the characters, how difficult was that to bring to life? Your character sacrifices a lot with his job.

11. Ostensibly a romp through all things Italian, Guido’s Credos offers a seriocomic subtext about stereotypes and the societal emphasis on political correctness

12. A Blast (which has a on-screen English sub-title of Explosion ….though A Blast suits it far better) never resorts to subtext or allegory as other recent Greek films which referred to the country

13. [from 1883] 2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times Book Review: A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the Apotropaic device of its force

14. Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the Commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male