In fact, the unspoken theme of all the really good political thrillers, if you think about them, is not good versus evil but pretty bad versus slightly worse.

Art's particular ability to shape history is the exhibition's unspoken but overriding theme.

Their unspoken (and sometimes spoken) theme was that hockey people had made a mess of things and they were going to show how it was done.

And so the unspoken, underlying theme of the new advertising campaign is this: don't believe everything you see in the press.

It's an unspoken theme of the show that, as with McCarthy and Pry, art inspired by baseball is often an escape from, or a curative for, a troubled life.

Though of no legal relevance for the charges in the indictment, that question has become the trial's unspoken theme.

This is one of the many unspoken themes of the exhibition.

This ties in with one of the comic's unspoken central themes of "how to creep people out".

However, it offers a telling indication of one of the book's unspoken themes: the powerful effect Ellington's music has long had on even the most sober of commentators.

Among the unspoken themes of this exhibition is the role of collaboration in Dutch painting, an issue about which more needs to be written.