Example sentences for: subtext

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

  • Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).

  • Those proclaiming Nixon's return miss the subtext of their own proclamations.

  • But once the idea of a gay subtext has been planted, Louie the Lilac (as played by Milton Berle) isn't just a villain who likes to wear purple.

  • We Are All Multiculturalists Now is thus the opposite of Beyond the Melting Pot --a putatively neutral book with a profoundly discouraging subtext.

  • The implied subtext was that this absolves society from any responsibility to do something for children growing up in the South Bronx.


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