The phrase "a subversive effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an influence or impact that undermines or challenges established norms or authority.
Example: "The documentary had a subversive effect on public opinion, prompting viewers to question the status quo."
Alternatives: "a disruptive impact" or "an undermining influence."
She thinks that there is even the possibility for the ultra-cheap device – which has connectors for a keyboard, display, network and USB devices such as a hard drive – to have a "subversive" effect on the entire PC industry.
At the same time, the idea of the universe as a mechanism governed by a few simple and discoverable laws had a subversive effect on the concepts of a personal God and individual salvation that were central to Christianity.
Given the porous nature of communication between Hong Kong and the mainland, freedom granted to Hong Kong people to elect candidates not vetted by Beijing would have a subversive effect on China.
As Smith levelly acknowledges, the most impactful relationship between the secret state and writers during these years was not in any subversive effect the latter had on the former: rather, it was the way in which the former provided career boosts to the latter.
Seeing these dark and desperate thoughts spliced between cheery ads for banks and beer should create a genuinely subversive effect, but the project's trajectory was not without its own frustrations.
If Einstein had upended our everyday notions about the physical world with his theory of relativity, the younger man, Kurt Gödel, had had a similarly subversive effect on our understanding of the abstract world of mathematics.
Some go even further and suggest that tourism has a potentially subversive effect – that interaction with foreigners shows North Korean citizens just how far behind they are from the developed world, subsequently influencing them to question their government's intentions more.
The burnings of Story of O by American campus feminists in the 1980s have, it seems, had a less enduring and subversive effect than the book itself.
We review the evidence that progressive disease might not be due to absence of Th1, but rather to the subversive effect of an unusual Th2-like response, involving interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-4δ2.
Mr. Neumann's trademark humor was in full, subversive effect, balanced by an almost elegiac mood.
Tom Ford, a man who knows a thing or two about what makes clothes sexy, used the sweater-girl iconography to subversive effect in his film A Single Man, by dressing the young Nicholas Hoult in a white mohair boat-neck sweater.
