Sentence examples for moral subtext from inspiring English sources

And it still carries a moral subtext.

This is Cinderella with a powerful moral subtext.

But as the psychological elements of the story push their way into the foreground, "Election" takes on a darker, more Shakespearean hue, and a rich political and moral subtext (which will be extended in "Triad Election") begins to take shape.

It has to fight for the spotlight, too, in a strong week for arthouse releases, none better than Ruben Östlund's wickedly pointed family-crisis comedy Force Majeure (Artificial Eye, 15), in which the Swede's preoccupation with the warped moral subtext of everyday human behaviour finds its most broadly entertaining narrative to date.

"They could see when all around them were blind" is the moral subtext.

What is it with our recent obsession with end of the world plots with loads of moral subtext?

All Bradbury's novels, for all their surface wit and comedy, have serious moral and philosophical subtexts; in The History Man the wit is darker, the satire more biting, the atmosphere more menacing and the conclusion more hopeless.

Will some people read a frustrating subtext in that moral – "Comedians should censor themselves online now lest they incur complaints at some indefinite point in the future"?

And this subtext clarifies Buckley's moral critique of Washington.

At that convention, the Bush campaign left no doubt that it would make the moral lapses of Mr. Clinton a basic subtext of its strategy, emphasizing the need to restore dignity and honor to the White House.

But the subtext in this narrative is about moral order.