In one of my movies, "Basic Instinct," smoking is part of a sexual subtext.

Am I sensing a sexual subtext here?

This story has a lurking sexual subtext that gives it a more serious and compelling tone than the others, though everything is very understated.

He fidgeted, apparently embarrassed to acknowledge the sexual subtext that Zaand could hear quite clearly in his words.

Nevertheless, the novel suggests several sexual subtexts.

Her lyrics and videos featured the tried-and-true mix of youthful purity and barely legal sexual subtext.

Almost everything these people say has an innocent surface meaning and a subversive sexual subtext.

Social problems, sexual subtexts and psychological truth became the hallmarks of seriousness on stage and screen.

Routt justifies these descriptions with reference to the film's ambiguity about the morality of the war, and its supposedly improper sexual subtexts.

"We tried to make the audience as conscious of the beach movies' sexual subtext, and if possible, a little bit uncomfortable," Mr. King says.