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  • adverb In a subtextual way.

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Examples

  • It also added to the notion subtextually that people mothered Glass. "

    Stephen Glass Opens Wide 2003

  • It also added to the notion subtextually that people mothered Glass. "

    Stephen Glass Opens Wide 2003

  • I felt like it had enough of a high concept thrust to keep the stakes up in a movie and keep it entertaining, but at the same time, subtextually, completely resonated with me in terms of reaching that point in your life where you're really having to straddle currently responsibility with previous ideals, and how you rectify those two things.

    Ashley Wren Collins: Joshua Leonard Cannot Tell a Lie Ashley Wren Collins 2011

  • I still think Bryan Singer was attempting this subtextually with the X-Men movies.

    Indie vs Hollywood Hal Duncan 2010

  • This not only seals his fate but also redeems him in the eyes of the audience and subtextually with his wayward son, Clarence.

    Tribute: The High and Highs of Dennis Hopper | Obsessed With Film 2010

  • That subtextually, he was creating a Matriarch who was also the Patriarch, playing to a scrambled aspect of black culture that struck a serious chord with, especially, older black women his core demographic.

    A Meteor Will Hit Your Dog Steven Barnes 2009

  • Only the heroine is lacking in names, a fact that resonates on multiple levels: it intensifies her fear that she is stepping in for another woman who Maxim is obviously still preoccupied with; it betrays her lower-class insecurity about inhabiting the role of a society hostess surrounded by servants in this spacious home; and subtextually, it indicates a proto-feminist concern for the loss of female identity attendant to marriage as a general institution.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Only the heroine is lacking in names, a fact that resonates on multiple levels: it intensifies her fear that she is stepping in for another woman who Maxim is obviously still preoccupied with; it betrays her lower-class insecurity about inhabiting the role of a society hostess surrounded by servants in this spacious home; and subtextually, it indicates a proto-feminist concern for the loss of female identity attendant to marriage as a general institution.

    Rebecca Ed Howard 2008

  • With his regular-guy job and can't-get-the-girl meekness, Superman hid his steel, and however fascistic he might have been subtextually, he contributed as much, if not more, to Americans 'ideas of the heroic common man as did a Steinbeck or a Capra.

    Maus Culture 2001

  • With his regular-guy job and can't-get-the-girl meekness, Superman hid his steel, and however fascistic he might have been subtextually, he contributed as much, if not more, to Americans 'ideas of the heroic common man as did a Steinbeck or a Capra.

    Maus Culture 2001

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