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transgressiveness



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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

Its legacy is a kind of corporatized transgressiveness.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018

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


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