The difference is that now we read the subtext beneath the spin.

Men said he could read a man's life in the blade of grass crushed beneath a boot heel.

For a second or two, you read the fear beneath the haughty face.

I learned to read a trail beneath a covering of snow.

As he read the caption beneath it, Harry's face took on a gleam of surprise.

She was veiled, as always when they rode abroad, but he had come to read her beneath the veil.

She studied his face and still couldn't read beneath his masked expression.

He did glance at her then, although she couldn't read the look in his eyes beneath their dropping lids.

She kept flipping the pages, not looking at the pictures, just reading the blurbs beneath them.

Within her father sat reading beneath the rays of an oil lamp.