How To Use Subversiveness In A Sentence
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Such tactics were even praised by the Daily Telegraph recently as offering ‘an honest subversiveness which a conservative newspaper can admire’.
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Anyway, if I haven't already conveyed this notion, the band is pretty much built around the idea of subversiveness, of magnifying all sorts of cultural hypocrisy and absurdity in the name of reason, humor, enlightenment, etc.
Hank Shteamer: Double Negative: Negativland At The Highline Ballroom
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What was initially repudiated as relentlessly ugly, hyper-violent nihilism has, in hindsight, taken on a strange air of both sly subversiveness and surprising prescience.
Chez Pazienza: Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class
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He decides to censor it and to supervise the author, watching out for further subversiveness lest it become necessary to deport him to an island.
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Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness.
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Their pop sensibility, spangly make-up and subversiveness bemused, charmed and totally won me over.
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This caused "subversiveness," a principle English professors usually favor.
Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment
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However, I do think that the study of literature is enriched if you have both an awareness of possible underlying structures and an acknowledgement of the singularity and subversiveness of the text.
What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room
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For my own (extended) family we create it by sending our kids to school and pretty steadily teaching them subversiveness at a low, innocuous level throughout their lives.
What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant
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Pretending that these were not, in fact, the show’s dramatic turning points for the sake of claiming great (and continued) subversiveness is silly.
Matthew Yglesias » More Sopranos Blogging
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But her secretive way of voicing herself backfires when Georgia and Virginia are fired for her subversiveness.
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Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement.
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In the past, though, any 'subversiveness' tended to be more social or aesthetic rather than directly political, and was informed by a schoolboyish sense of mischief rather than a determination to lock horns with the authorities.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English
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Despite their reputation for subversiveness, both Ant and Dec have a tendency to speak in the flavourless on-message soundbites of New Labour politicians.
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The heavy use of vernacular speech in rap lyrics underscores the subversiveness of hip hop with respect to mainstream culture and its consonance with vernacular cultural values.
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Less charitably, shouldn't indie kids be able to listen to music well-educated people usually think is ‘beneath them’ without requiring it to give off the patina of subversiveness?
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The former is an agreeable and clever portrait that domesticates and sweetens its subject's subversiveness.
