subversiveness

Example Sentences

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Townsend’s subversiveness serves a purpose; he is making an artistic comment on gentrification and urban renovation in Providence as well as capitalism and the unrealistic/unattainable fantasies of consumerism.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025

In his public appearances, Williams often walks a fine line between parody and subversiveness, stunt and style.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 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