Sentence examples for a subversive effect on from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Widespread reading for pleasure became well established in the 17th and 18th centuries — and set off alarms about the lascivious or subversive effects on women from a solitary pastime unrestrained by constant surveillance.

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.

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.

Just as amusing is the unexpected duet performed by Mr. Dannheisser and Mitchell Jarvis, who plays Dennis's right-hand man at the club, on REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" — a dreadful song, yes, but repurposed to sweetly subversive effect here.

Oliver Jeffers makes gimmicky paintings, occasionally borrowing the midcentury Situationist technique of détournement — that is, painting on found paintings in an act of creative disfiguring — but to much less subversive effect than the master of the form, Asger Jorn.