Sentences with phrase «subversive acts in»

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Offred also creates her own subversive counter-texts and continually practices the mental acts of poetic synthesis and analysis, remaking distinctions that the State elides and reviving the language for which she hungers in this famine of the Word.

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.

Gross» attorney, Peter Khan, was not immediately available for comment, but has maintained that his client acted innocently and was not involved in subversive activities.

form of government, and emboldened by the wide diffusion of a false conception of tolerance, has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution.

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.

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:

While Burberry — first under American businesswoman Rose Marie Bravo who installed Bailey as designer and then under the double - act of Angela Ahrendts as chief executive and Bailey as creative director — focused on its distinctive British heritage, Tisci's track record shows his heart to be in a dark, gothic sensibility laced with a subversive southern Mediterranean soul.

A film that already starts out oddly enough — as a kind of subversive biopic about a low point in Miles Davis» life — gets even stranger as it morphs into an ode to «70s blaxploitation movies, before a third act in which it completely disables the brakes.

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.

(f) As used in this title, the phrase «unlawful employment practice» shall not be deemed to include any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor - management committee, or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member of the Communist Party of the United States or of any other organization required to register as a Communist - action or Communist - front organization by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.

Hickey, writing beautifully in 25 Women: Essays on Their Work, says of Heilmann that among the entire generation of artists who embarked on second acts in their careers following AIDS, the shooting of Andy Warhol, and seismic shifts in the New York art world, «Mary Heilmann's has to have been the bravest and most subversive, the one that actually raises the bar.»