subversive

In a movie industry petrified of losing people’s interest, there’s something almost subversive about “not hiding from characters talking,” as McDonagh describes his specialty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Which also makes him a Trojan horse for some pretty subversive ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

A subversive, funny new show: HBO’s new Sunday night series Lanterns is the spiritual successor to Watchmen: a superhero show for people who don’t think they like superhero shows.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Charli's new songs find her grappling with whether she can stay true to her pugnacious, subversive roots while enjoying commercial success and personal happiness.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

In the authorities’ war against perceived subversives, it would be years before it became clear how brazenly they had cheated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

These Super Glue subversives have been derided as publicity-seeking Philistines and hailed as martyrs for a vital cause.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

Your father’s high school coach, who believed the forward pass was invented by hippie subversives, may have approved of the punts, but all three were mistakes, according to the EdjSports model.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

Americans worked themselves into a tizzy over the putative threat posed by small numbers of homegrown subversives.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018

"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau