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• “Vessels are so over” is the apparent subtext of this potpourri of the figurative, abstract and installational.2007 September 7, Roberta Smith, “It’s Just Clay, but How About a Little Respect?”, in New York Times. From the entry installational
• Hannibal went further though, elevating the subtext into text by making Hannigram arguably canon by the end of season 3.2021, Kirsty Worrow, “My Darling Cannibal: The Mechanics of Perverse Allegiance in Hannibal”, in Kyle A. Moody, Nicholas A. Yanes…. From the entry Hannigram
• This wasn’t really even subtext: Gaga and Kelly playacted an Oval Office affair at the American Music Awards.2019 January 11, Spencer Kornhaber, “Lady Gaga’s R. Kelly Apology Is a Reminder That Abuse Isn’t Provocative”, in The Atlantic. From the entry play-act
• Many of the anti-vaxx versions come pre-loaded with Libertarian subtext.2015 January 21, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, “How Fashion Helped Defeat 18th-Century Anti-Vaxxers”, in The Atlantic. From the entry anti-vax
• But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian. From the entry trowel
• A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the apotropaic device of its force.2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times. From the entry apotropaic
• The subtext, unworded but looming, was that, like coal miners, poets have to make a living, and Shapiro had children.2007 January 28, Jim Harrison, “Don’t Feed the Poets”, in New York Times. From the entry unworded
• So the subtext, the meaning of the entire album, when preceded by its quotation, its symbol, yields a paradox.2001 October 1, Howard Mirowitz, “Why is L&T in Quotation Marks?”, in rec.music.dylan (Usenet). From the entry quine
• My high-masking autistic personality, having achieved a semblance of “normalcy” by listening carefully to every word and every nuance, caught the hidden subtext.2024, Tom Equels, The Horseman's Tale, unnumbered page. From the entry high-masking
• This subtext of the Force, as a type of energy that can be tapped into, has attracted many enthusiastic consumers of the Star Wars mythos.2005, Adam Possamai, Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-real Testament, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, page 86. From the entry telekinesist
• There is always subtext to be found if you believe there is.And, if you get tired of just imagining it, read some smutfic.1998 January 15, BabylonC [username], “Re: [OT] B:tVS & subtext”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet). From the entry smutfic
• Another reason was the apparently inspired pairing of screenwriter Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg, two dark poets of psychic subtexts and achronological memory flashes.1988 October 14, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Muddled Americans”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry achronological
• The X-Men films have made an explicit connection between the mutants’ powers and pubescent self-discovery, but perhaps it’s necessary to address the last few movies’ psychosexual subtext.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry psychosexual
• Halimur Khan has astutely pointed out the passage’s folkloric subtext: Stalin “flies” down to confront Chonkin, and his pipe and rifle are analogues of Baba Iaga’s mortar and pestle.2009, Karen L. Ryan, “[Joseph] Stalin in a Dress”, in Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917–1991, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press…. From the entry Baba Iaga
• Tangentially, speaking of HoYay! movies, the local movie reviewer here said about "The Count of Monte Cristo" that he's seen less homoerotic subtext in a Village People video.2002 January 26, Shadowy Moon [username], “Re: Religious groups praise "Lord Of The Rings"”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet). From the entry hoyay

Meaning of subtext

1. noun An implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
2. verb To create or use a subtext.

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Questions about subtext in a sentence

How do you use subtext in a sentence?

Subtext is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Everyone heard the announcement, but not everyone agrees on what the subtext was.”

What is a short sentence with subtext?

“But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.”

What does subtext mean?

Subtext means an implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.