Word: subtext
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...Hillary who pulled it all together, going on the Today show to attack Starr as "a politically motivated prosecutor...who has literally spent four years looking at every telephone call...we've made, every check we've ever written, scratching for dirt, intimidating witnesses." There was a familiar subtext to Hillary's comments. She knows the President better than anyone, she said, and there are no secrets between them. Which means that if she has made her peace with whatever he may have done, surely this is her business and no one else...
...broadcaster aired a show on the country's economic woes--bad debt, creeping unemployment, collapsing banks and businesses--featuring a series of film clips in which top politicians and bureaucrats kept insisting that there would be no bank failures and that the economy was recovering, even growing. "The subtext," says Alicia Ogawa, an American-born banker who has lived in Japan for more than a decade, "was that you couldn't possibly believe a thing these people said...
...certainly, the post-modern ontology would seem to suggest as much. By taking up the discourse on race, Cotton also makes the mistake of intertwining alternative discourses in ways which portray them as out-of- phase and fundamentally misaligned. But are they truly so, or is there a hidden subtext to this arrangement? --Leo J. Kallop, GSAS
...large it is a cloak for anti-Semitism," he says. "The far right by and large has taken great pains to strip away explicit racism and couch arguments in pseudo-academic terms. They don't talk much about satanic Jewish bankers running the world but that is the subtext...
...president touts the economic successes of his hosts this week for audiences back home, listen carefully for the the subtext: Without Fast Track, Europe is going to be camping out in America's backyard...