Sentence examples for subtext from inspiring English sources

Underpinning the book is a subtext: a love-letter to Latvia, its people, culture and traditions.

We were at the dark heart of what Oliver was later to call "the locust years" (he loved a good epigram) when the forestry sector was trashing native woodland, and the subtext of the conference was a subtly orchestrated counter-attack by British ecologists, a bid to rehabilitate the national tree.

Jonathan Jones's article on Penelope Curtis, outgoing director of Tate Britain, (misogynist subtext?) is a highly unpleasant attack on a formidable scholar and curator.

If you interrogate the subtext of these discussions, it is possible to come up with quite an accurate picture of what this part of the UK electorate is worried about.

She wrote in her book, America By Heart, that "the new feminism is telling women they are capable and strong" – her subtext being, of course, that the old feminism fosters weakness in women by empowering them to speak out against injustice (you know, like weak people do).

The subtext of the unhappiness appears to be about being a party in coalition.

Capello will not care - the manager has embraced the trip as an opportunity to bring his squad together for an extended period ahead of his first competitive fixtures in the autumn - but the subtext to the game is acutely sensitive for the FA, which wants to avoid the impression that its bid is for sale.

His lengthy 1982 article, Interregnum, in the literary monthly Novy Mir, was ostensibly about Chinese politics, yet the entire subtext related to the Soviet Union.