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Underlying theme
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subtext
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"underlying theme of a work of literature," 1950, from sub- + text (n.). Originally a term in Konstantin Stanislavsky's theory of acting. Earlier it was used in a literally sense of "text appearing below other text on a page" (1726). Latin subtextere meant ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Subtext is a moderately visual programming language and environment, for writing application software . It is an experimental, research attempt to develop a new programming model, called Example Centric Programming, by treating copied blocks as first class ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ One subtext of the book is accepting one's ethnic identity. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even in this harsh, modern commercial world, this remains a vital subtext of our own research. ▪ Potentially explosive subtext -- Annie ...
Usage examples of subtext.
They talked about preconscious flow and cultural memes and the ambient psychosexual subtext.
Racial hostility is a frequent subtext of commercials for beer, soft drinks and running shoes.
My discourse on the sadomasochistic subtext of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas has been called a minor masterpiece.
It was all part of the message she was cumulating for them, in word, gesture, and subtext.
And there was an unspoken subtext in each speech that never ceased to trouble him: the patronizing implication that he had done wonderful things for a robot, that it was close to miraculous that a mere mechanical construction like himself should have been able to think so creatively and to transmute his thoughts into such extraordinary accomplishments.
If it hadn't been for those damn' meddlesome posthumanists –" Her wrinkled, unnaturally aged face scowls at him furiously from underneath hair that has faded to the color of rotten straw, but he senses a subtext of self-deprecating irony that he doesn't understand.
There are lots of subtexts loose in this room, broken narratives from stories of misguided affections.
An inordinate percentage incorporated images or subtexts of space, or of floating, or of flying.
As she had guessed, a program of old and new songs with racial themes or subtexts was being broadcast on all frequencies, burning everything else off the air just like the night before.
There was no evidence that the Cora were aware of the inflectional subtexts of spoken wordsbut RyRelee did not dare chance accusing his masters of either ruthlessness or stupidity.
You can read subtexts even in a traffic sign that says 'No littering.
Similarly, our spoken language includes a range of vocalizations, imperceptible to most other species, that may contain many layers of subtext.