Sentence examples for actually being about from inspiring English sources

The phrase "actually being about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify the true subject or focus of a discussion, text, or situation.
Example: "While the movie seems to be a simple romance, it is actually being about the complexities of human relationships."
Alternatives: "truly concerning" or "genuinely focused on".

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I've a hunch that we were seeing things through Robert's eyes and rather than them actually being about to boil him in a stew, he was just hallucinating from whatever was in the soup and they were trying to save him.

Best of Friends has become a modern anthem of comradeship, despite actually being about a serial friend-zoner.

I think they made it possible for a film to be Jewish without actually being about Jews, because they explore these issues.

They say that #gamergate is actually a co-ordinated 4chan campaign that has swept up many naive muppets, that through it and other tags like #notyourshield and #writeakotakuarticle the social media campaign has maintained a facade of reasonableness while in fact actually being about women after all.

But it benefits greatly, at least for those who care about such things, by actually being about something — the morality of war and its methods — in a way that most movies of this type are not".

As the film begins, I experience a flicker of concern that what I'm about to see is something I've seen before a film ostensibly about a relationship, that ends up actually being about a man in love with a caricature of a woman, always beautiful, always bathed in soft, twinkling lights, her nature revealed only through the penetrating gaze of her male counterpart.

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But – and Chris and I shuffled awkwardly around the question – what would the film actually be about?

But I wonder how bothered Poliakoff actually is about what was actually going on in 1932.

If only the movie had let her break out, it might have actually been about something.

Updated at 2.29pm BST 2.27pm BST Something might actually be about to happen!

It's about you," I always interpreted the words to mean that it actually was about him.

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