subversiveness

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Even within this lurks a subversiveness, since “Sinners” points to chronicles informing how we’ve arrived at this version of our present that those working to re-establish segregation want to bury or erase.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

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

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

How do you think about boundaries of subversiveness now, and what are your thoughts on media conformism today?

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

And yet there was a subversiveness to Heche that threaded through her best performances, as well as an ability to laugh at herself that undermined her reputation in the culture at large.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

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

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