subversiveness

Example Sentences

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With great subversiveness, Portis consistently abjured America’s postwar fetishes for progress, social mobility and affluence.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

The Seattle Times spoke with Spiegelman over Zoom about revisiting this memoir, censorship and subversiveness, and the multiple meanings of the word “breakdowns.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

While foregrounding the Black male body — nude and dancing, cheekily pregnant or resplendent in a wedding dress — he makes his subversiveness look delightful, and his aesthetic bounty feel radical.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Overall it gives the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy a weirdly inconsistent tone, jumping from classical storytelling to meandering subversiveness, and then back to a classical approach.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2019

It would suppress subversiveness as well as what is called bad taste.

From The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Shaw, Bernard