Example sentences for: subtext

How can you use “subtext” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There in the privacy of the changing room I understood that the erotic subtext of Slates--the pants--was that there is no erotic subtext.

  • Dr. Evil's subtext of sexual jealousy has become his motive.

  • Unanimous praise goes to The Madness of King George director Nicholas Hytner's staging of the gender bender, which breaks with the recent trend of interjecting gay subtext into the play.

  • The subtext is that this may be the only real-income increase hard-pressed workers will get.

  • As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.


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