Sentences with phrase «subversive act»

Shared silence in peace and solidarity in the context of a jail is possibly the most subversive act of resistance to the jail's culture of terrorization and violence that one might devise.

A resolution was also adopted and widely communicated to both churches and governments calling for the «certain assurance that no country will engage in or support aggressive or subversive acts in other countries.

But Jesus stopped Peter, and in a truly subversive act, healed his assailant instead.

An international outpouring of support helped bring about Bruguera's release, but other Cuban artists, dissidents, and journalists still remain in prison for subversive acts both real and imagined.

We can try pruning away the patriarchal elements of American evangelicalism or we could try a scorched earth approach, she says, but the most effective thing we can do is participate in the life - giving and subversive act of planting new trees:

In Scripture we learn that solitude can be a subversive act against the cultural and social pressures that come from constantly subjecting oneself to the opinions and judgments of others.

The Sheik and I 2012, 104 min Commisioned by a Middle Eastern biennial to make a film on the theme of «art as a subversive act,» Zahedi makes a film that is banned for blasphemy

Oddly unsympathetic, even as it depicts a subversive act of rebellion within a ruthlessly patriarchal and misogynistic culture, it's a superficial treatment on the prowl for cheap laughs and tone deaf to its own misguided scope.

To make a Western now is in itself a subversive act.

Either it's one of the most profoundly racist films I've seen since Birth Of A Nation, or it's a subversive act exposing the racist stereotypes of Hollywood films.

In these days where skills not readily measured by standardized tests are under - taught, teaching critical thinking skills has become something of a subversive act.

- The Economist «On one level, [River of Smoke] is a remarkable feat of research, bringing alive the hybrid customs of food and dress and the competing philosophies of the period with intimate precision; on another it is a subversive act of empathy, viewing a whole panorama of world history from the «wrong» end of the telescope.

I agree with those who have said it seems more a method of survival than a subversive act.

For Muholi and the members of the Inkanyiso collective, just documenting the existence of LGBTI individuals can be a subversive act: Once, burglars broke into Muholi's house and stole the hard drives containing her work.