The novel uses these worn motifs to create a subtext of understated feelings. |
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Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins. |
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He may have been an academic and a Pom, was the subtext, but he was still a good keen bloke. |
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The other questions that follow in the sequence make the subtext less subtle. |
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The real narrative subtext here is the restoration of family and the recuperation of a nation and its history. |
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A subtext to the book is an expose of the utter moral bankruptcy of pure free markets. |
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I would have thought they wouldn't have realised the satirical subtext of the book. |
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The jaunty works, populated by animals, have a lot to say to an audience thirsty for fun and a dark subtext. |
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Actually, Clooney's second directorial feature, Good Night, and Good Luck, offers a yeasty gay subtext. |
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The subtext is that this is a story of a personal vice, usually greed, on the part of the trader or his managers or both. |
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I found it to be wickedly intriguing, filled with dark profundities and rich subtext. |
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To get a hang of the play and its subtext, which is its essence, it is necessary to take it scene-by-scene. |
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The arrogance of power was the subtext in the other great medical story of the year. |
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It's observation of character and situation is quite nice, but the drama is not only devoid of drama but also subtext. |
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However, it remains my belief that one should strive for pith and subtext once one has crossed that gate. |
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As with her use of subtext, Griffith is quite modern in her use of setting to shed light on the psychology of her characters. |
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His seminal book postulated that depictions of the East by Western painters and writers had a Eurocentric, colonialist subtext. |
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The placing of this paean in the mouth of Cranmer would defuse any audience disapproval of a Mariological subtext. |
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It's a subtext which betrays the author's own feelings but he doesn't allow it to stand in the way of a good yarn. |
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The learned meanings are present in the subtext, which is understood only by the initiated audiences. |
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The underlying subtext here is that native language belongs at home and not at school. |
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The nationalism of the album, however, is compromised by its visual subtext. |
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The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues. |
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This system forms the subtext of the protagonist's behavior and encodes it as text. |
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There's something palpably sinister about the film's subtext. |
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It is so illogical, ugly and foul-mouthed that it almost suggests a deliberate subversive subtext aimed at exposing the nurtured helplessness of today's cinema-going public. |
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Often considered a golden era for horror films, the '70s saw innovation, politically charged subtext, and a gutsiness mixed to push boundaries and buttons. |
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There's a spiritual and philosophical subtext to the design of the buildings which goes so far as to embrace geomancy, human biology, cosmology and lines of force. |
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All in all, though, there was no mistaking the discomfort, self-doubt, and unsureness that ran through the evening's subtext. |
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But, just as often, it feels affected or expositional — once you slash through the verbal kudzu, there's surprisingly little subtext. |
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If you scratched the shiny surface, it revealed layers of subtext about class, power and redemption. |
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Four Friends has a decidedly sad, pessimistic, and disturbing undercurrent that belies its characters' joie de vivre with a cautionary, almost remonstrative subtext. |
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All three films are intelligent thrillers, with enough subtext to support repeat viewings, but they are still visceral thrills at their core, not films about something. |
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Her occasional sketches are hit-or-miss, best when they have some sly subtext. |
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The message is not that the conversation about Waco should be overblown, hypercritical of an entire culture, or full of racial subtext. |
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The 149-day lockout was mostly about money and partly about competitive balance, but with a subtext of control. |
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The subtext of the unhappiness appears to be about being a party in coalition. |
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It is a subtext through all of these bills and notions about what kinds of sentences are being handed out, or not. |
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I'm very concerned with what I'm hearing in terms of the subtext, almost, of what you're talking about. |
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We heard this during the hearing on Iraq the other day in the Foreign Affairs Committee, and there is a subtext of anti-Americanism. |
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There is a subtext that runs through some of the official ODA discussion that volunteer sending per se may be out of date. |
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She shares the subtext she has with the music, but what I do with it is up to me. |
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The subtext of their narrative was that Canada had, somehow, made America unsafe by letting in too many ethnics, too easily. |
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Many also detected a more sinister subtext, viewing transformation as a thinly disguised attempt to open European markets to US defence exports. |
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They have a weirdly jubilant streak that defuses any hint of a Luddite subtext. |
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It called for a new crackdown on doctrinal dissent, and recommended a papal investigation of American seminaries, the subtext of which was to blame gays. |
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The subtext of the clown is that life is a joke and can be snatched away at any moment. |
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They never acquire the independent meaning of a neat allegorical subtext. |
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Perhaps there is no prior research or scholarly literature on the subject, but it would seem pretty easy to construct similar experiments without a racial subtext. |
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Linthicum did not speak of racial unity among whites, but that was the subtext. |
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But the subtext here is that many commentators and officeholders need targets. |
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The subtext here suggests that if a guy as unkempt as Rogen tends to his hair down there, so should every other American bro. |
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The subtext is that each of us is responsible for all of us, and if we intermarry, we risk disappearing completely. |
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Named for the god of the underworld, this planet deals in subtext and subversive action. |
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And if the White House does buy from him, be sure to read the subtext of the purchase agreement. |
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The direct link between economic freedom and unfettered self-expression is the unarticulated subtext of the many biographies of stars from this era. |
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The name isn't important, but since I'm an underemployed historian, I'll use subtext because these words are about all I have to show for my education. |
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Psychopathological assumptions about gays persist despite these findings, and heterosexism continues to provide an invisible subtext to much therapeutic work. |
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That was the subtext of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, which convened in New York from 24 to 26 June. |
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The poem's idealistic theme or subtext accounts for its popularity across much of the political spectrum. |
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The mayhem got gorier and the subtext became more satirical, attacking shopping mall culture. |
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There is often a subtext to this correspondence of literary lions. |
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And talk radio's subtext included resentment that there would be no Wheaties cereal box idolization of Ray Lewis, the Ravens' fleet, formidable linebacker. |
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It will be seen that while the targets were always human or material and the aim was to create a climate of fear through an act of terror, in every case there was also a secondary objective or subtext, namely culture. |
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Street credibility is the magazine's subtext. |
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A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the apotropaic device of its force. |
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You just rehashed the Treaty and created an unreadable hotch-potch of footnotes, cross-references and subtext, and you wonder why citizens are rejecting it. |
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Particularly gifted manipulators of sonority, both were blessed with great sensitivity and imbued each work with an allegory or subtext that is not immediately obvious. |
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But the whole debate is affected, either as text or as subtext. |
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Sheila Dalton's text is reminiscent of Dr. Seuss in its creative wording and unorthodox typography, with a clever subtext that suggests that acceptance of differences can be fun too. |
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In this latest Homeric work, Martin deliberately charges his gaze with irony, the better to capture the rich subtext underlying these mythic confrontations. |
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He wilfully invokes a subtext of incest, perhaps because he is speaking to Quentin or perhaps in the spirit of a wearily unshockable cynicism. |
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Almost all of Thomas's work concerns the Welsh landscape and the Welsh people, themes with both political and spiritual subtext. |
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The subtext, unworded but looming, was that, like coal miners, poets have to make a living, and Shapiro had children. |
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Its subtext is that people should choose between hunting and education, and that the purpose of education is in effect that graduates should leave their communities. |
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I realize there is all kind of other subtext going on with this debate in terms of it being embroiled with the Senate and what it can or cannot do. |
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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. |
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They will work closely together to breathe life into the lines and develop a deeper understanding of the characters' motivations and relationships, fleshing out the subtext of the play. |
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Interpersonal violence may well be the subtext of family homelessness. |
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In each play's analytical overview, he explains the plot line in a clear, concise, yet richly detailed manner, again adding pertinent details about subtext. |
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The productions were not always overtly propagandistic, but generally had a political subtext and followed party lines regarding themes and content. |
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