Sentences with phrase «subversive way»
The phrase "subversive way" refers to a sneaky or secret method of undermining or challenging authority, norms, or dominant beliefs. It involves trying to change or disrupt something from within, often using unconventional approaches that may not be openly accepted. Full definition
In its own subversive way, the film even suggest that perhaps the sleepy ideal «Americana» town of Santa Rosa, California never even had its own innocence in the first place, lest we are fooled by its white picket fences and rural facade.
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The Mario & Luigi games are some of the most entertaining games Nintendo is putting out, and a large part of that is the way it plays with the established Mario characters in an often gently subversive way.
Isn't someone who can make you see something supposedly shameful in a beautiful, hilarious, radical, subversive way really a miracle worker?
But, in trying times like these, they might better propose a more subversive way forward.
Language was being used as an art material in a totally subversive way.
Remember, that Ump is the very one who modeled this subversive way of playing and winning to begin with.
This is no Get Out - there is no wry commentary here about the racial inequalities in US society or the subversive ways in which classes are kept in their place.
But Catching Fire argues that we can use the parties and the gowns and the TV appearances in a subversive way, and in this case it's getting a whole generation into a science fiction story that's pretty much about a socialist uprising.
In a subversive way, that is the point: Gordon Gekko is a decent enough guy when stood up next to the current wave of Wall Street crooks.
charter schools are just stealth private schools based on what a cabal of parents want for their kids — and they EVOLVE to be that segregation academy in a subtle and subversive way.
And in the same way, we need a more nuanced look at the mechanisms and implications around engaging with games in subversive ways.
It's intense, strange, and quite charming in a subversive way.
Nochlin asked that question in a kind of subversive way.
Rarely considered together, they each use their own backgrounds or identities as material, frequently in antagonistic or subversive ways.
But all four of them deserve serious attention, and manage to flout our expectations in quiet, yet subversive ways.
In taking on of America's most significant symbols, Johns — who would go on to paint more than 40 iterations of the work — influenced countless contemporary artists to engage with the image in both patriotic and subversive ways.
This retrospective of Himid's paintings — along with concurrent shows of her work at Spike Island, Bristol and Nottingham Contemporary — reveals the subversive ways in which she has put black experience into western art history since the 1980s.