Sentence examples for sexual subtext from inspiring English sources

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Actors and critics look for the subtext and increasingly, since Freud, the sexual subtext.

Explore the sexual subtext of Archie in "Archie: A Celebration of America's Favorite Teenagers".

But I think the song also has a whole sexual subtext.

Almost everything these people say has an innocent surface meaning and a subversive sexual subtext.

In one of my movies, "Basic Instinct," smoking is part of a sexual subtext.

Her lyrics and videos featured the tried-and-true mix of youthful purity and barely legal sexual subtext.

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There are similarly subtle erotic and sexual subtexts throughout Ghibli's films.

Social problems, sexual subtexts and psychological truth became the hallmarks of seriousness on stage and screen.

Having been launched at the end of the Clinton administration, Season One reminds me of Mike Nichols's terrific 1998 movie Primary Colors, a Lewinsky-era satire in which personal, political and sexual subtexts swirl around a flawed but essentially decent political animal.

Films like The Go-Between (1971), Tess (1979) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) concentrated on serious-minded sexual subtexts; the deftness of Merchant Ivory's comic touch meant A Room With a View operated almost independently of historical context, and more like a mainstream romantic comedy.

Wells approaches this soberly, eschewing what he calls the pornographic approach of Pauline Kiernan in Filthy Shakespeare ("100 of Shakespeare's most shocking, tantalisingly-coded sexual subtexts, ranging from Wanking to Dildos"), and discerning a certain fastidiousness in Shakespeare's approach to bawdy by comparison with his contemporaries.

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