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

From its dumb yellow title card to its antihero’s dumb delusions of grandeur to its dumb absolute belief in its own transgressiveness, Joker is just as stupid as can be.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 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

While the transgressiveness of Mr. Packard’s work is genuine, and recalls old-school subversive cinema, there’s a hermetic quality to it as well.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2018

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