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
A smug and inaccurate sense of its own transgressiveness.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2021
But the novel also epitomizes the transgressiveness that was once so daring and now, as Barnes acknowledges, “seems fanciful, decorative, egotistical camp.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 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
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
