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

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

All this requires less violence and subversiveness, more patience and constructive propaganda, less appeal to the armed might of a determined minority.

From The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Russell, Bertrand