subtext
Example Sentences
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Yet the subtext is less important than the surface: The movie is simply a witless bore.
All this and a subtext of relationships among the leading artists of the period.
“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
“The subtext there, as I read it, is that we need to do this to be leaders.”
From The Verge
“Sometimes you just have to make the subtext text,” DaCosta said.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
