Sentence examples for subtle agenda from inspiring English sources

This epistolary biography has a not subtle agenda.

Retailers were among the first to use music and scent to influence customer behavior — diffusing a chocolate smell, for instance, to entice customers to buy candy — but the hospitality industry is pursuing a more subtle agenda.

He already knew what was coming: sly hints and innuendo, winks and leading questions with a not-so-subtle agenda behind them — to get him to say something, anything, that could suggest he wants to be a Knick.

Republicans claim that the Democrats' attempt to block his nomination proves that they will allow Latinos to get ahead only if they toe the party line.In fact the White House may have a subtler agenda.

In addition to the very real damage done to countless people's lives and to American institutions that thrive as magnets for talent from around the world, there is also a not-so-subtle agenda at work here to make difference and otherness a badge of shame and to communicate to the public that there is a preferred type of American.

Waterlog combined a subtle ecological agenda with exquisite writing about that most over-described of substances, water.

While neither has an especially coherent or subtle economic agenda, both show that, however frustrated they might be, large numbers of Americans still believe they can influence the political process to improve their fortunes.

Said accuses Walzer of a not-so-subtle political agenda: Advancing a framing of the nation-state of Israel as the result of a liberation movement.

Dunbar isn't very subtle about her agenda.

Beneath the twists of a plot as tangled as a plate of spaghetti, Mr. Mamet presses a subtle, half-hidden agenda.

There was nothing subtle about the Celtics' agenda.