Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins. |
The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues. |
The learned meanings are present in the subtext, which is understood only by the initiated audiences. |
As with her use of subtext, Griffith is quite modern in her use of setting to shed light on the psychology of her characters. |
His seminal book postulated that depictions of the East by Western painters and writers had a Eurocentric, colonialist subtext. |
The underlying subtext here is that native language belongs at home and not at school. |