Sentence examples for Subtly subversive from inspiring English sources
Maybe Spielberg is just being subtly subversive.
Thomson's subtly subversive style arcs toward tenderness and quiet heroism.
That was quintessential Simms: subtly subversive, tweaking the expected package of replays.
The show carefully avoids direct criticism of Iran's Islamic regime; its style is subtly subversive.
They had always operated in the face of considerable official pressure, turning out distinguished, often subtly subversive movies.
The faintly sun-blushed effect brought to mind a Botticelli Venus, or, in contrast, a subtly subversive girl next door.
Ramos Martínez gets subtly cast as a subversive artist — not a rabble-rouser like Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, but a gentler compatriot of those Mexican muralists, who were also painting in the U.S. at the time.
Taking as its starting point a left-wing group's move to violent conflict, American Subversive is bitingly, yet subtly, political.
However equal and amicable they might be, they are always separate, covertly at odds, subtly competing, quietly instructing in the separate and subversive dialects of love".
By her own admission, she was a subversive presence who sought to not-so-subtly indoctrinate students assigned to her classes with her world view.
We see Hans Arp's sly biomorphic wood relief next to the needlepoint abstractions of his wife, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Marcel Duchamp's subversive incursions into art juxtaposed with his sister Suzanne's subtly recalcitrant painting-collage "Funnel of Solitude," from 1921.
