subversiveness

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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

And yet there was a subversiveness to Heche that threaded through her best performances, as well as an ability to laugh at herself that undermined her reputation in the culture at large.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

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