Sentence examples for war subtext from inspiring English sources

The famous 1966 World Cup final certainly had a second world war subtext, but it was not accompanied by renditions of Ten German Bombers or by Nazi salutes, as it would be today.

The World War II subtext has clung to the opera.

While American officials say that the weapon in the latest dispute is a conventional one — based on the Harpoon antiship missiles that were sold to Pakistan by the Reagan administration as a defensive weapon in the cold war — the subtext of the argument is growing concern about the speed with which Pakistan is developing new generations of both conventional and nuclear weapons.

When President Bush travels to the Pentagon on Monday morning for a classified briefing on the Iraq war, the subtext of the conversation will have little to do with the commanders' latest assessments of whether insurgents can be routed from Falluja and Najaf.

At mid-century, schools were instilled with Cold War anxiety; the subtext of films like "Blackboard Jungle" and "Rebel Without a Cause" was not only the perils of dissolute youth but also the dangers posed by families and schools that were seen as failing to meet the Soviet challenge.

"In any other context, patriotism in the States has a subtext of war, or of politics," he says.

It makes explicit what some believers of many creeds — though not the Bush administration — say is the real subtext of the war on terrorism: that it is a battle between Judeo-Christian and Islamic values, beliefs and territorial ambitions.

It makes explicit what some believers of many creeds -- though not the Bush administration -- say is the real subtext of the war on terrorism: that it is a battle between Judeo-Christian and Islamic values, beliefs and territorial ambitions.

While it was the "crippling" gasoline sanctions that were on the marquee, the conference's subtext was clearly war.

The message, though, was clear: Kashmir was the unspoken subtext of the Afghan war.

This absence of acknowledgment, so soon after the civil war, shows there's just enough subtext going on in this film.