Sentence examples for not explicitly about from inspiring English sources

The wars were not explicitly about religion but about the disputed territory of Kashmir and, in 1971, the independence of what was then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

It's not explicitly about a contemporary war, but when I first heard it, it reminded me that there is still active conflict going on in Afghanistan.

Matar insists that the novel, despite the life-mirroring separation of the nine-year-old Suleiman from his parents, is not explicitly about the disappearance of his father.

While not explicitly about coexistence, as some other of his nonfiction works are, it paints a deeply moving picture of Jewish refugees from Europe trying to find their way.

The filmmaker cast an erudite, well-traveled African-American actor named Duane Jones as the hero, at a time when it was still rare for black actors to play substantial roles in films that were not explicitly about race.

And when I read Predestination it was like: 'What the fuck did I just read?!'" He particularly likes the fact that although the lead character is transgender, the film is not explicitly about transgender issues, it's about all of us.

"It was a play about a very controversial figure in Irish history, about a deeply corrupt man," says O'Toole. "Though the play wasn't explicitly about Haughey the similarities were striking.

They aren't explicitly about the same woman at different stages of her life, but — as one gradually, tantalizingly realizes — they could be, and the fact that the collection is studded with references to doors and tunnels is hardly accidental.

A peculiarity of this pre-referendum festival is that, whether consciously or subconsciously, even the dramas that aren't explicitly about Scottish politics seem to have as their theme the meanings of loyalty and treachery.

Yes, "Three Billboards" isn't explicitly about race, but it plays into this kind of pandering.

But the film isn't explicitly about that, though it is one its greatest strengths.