transgressiveness

Example Sentences

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Lyle: I think people forget that when we meet Shauna, in past and present, she is chasing transgressiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

A smug and inaccurate sense of its own transgressiveness.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2021

But the novel also epitomizes the transgressiveness that was once so daring and now, as Barnes acknowledges, “seems fanciful, decorative, egotistical camp.”

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2020

Sneering yet endearing and melancholy yet comedic, the book resembled a cinematic fusion of the old-school absurdism of Luis Buñuel and the neon transgressiveness of Pedro Almodóvar.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2019

Waters started making art in 1992 and brought to it the black comedy and transgressiveness of his film work.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2015