0 a hidden or less obvious meaning: --
The political subtext of her novel is a criticism of government interference in individual lives.
The texts of the plays were so passionately coddled throughout that the subtext got suffocated in the embrace.
The focus is on events and policies, with a subtext that seeks to examine the interaction of the individual and circumstances.
The subtext of it all was an international crusade.
How can design be used to suggest atmosphere or subtext?
The subtext here is powerfully subtle: the acknowledgement of postcolonial thought actually subverts the very foundation of that thought.
This redefinition of cholesterol as the disease is reinforced by the entire subtext of women's magazines.
It may simply be mat the ideological threads woven through the subtext occasionally become entangled.
The music's distance from that adaptation, by way of its fraught and gestural content, suggests subtext.