Sentence examples for a subversive power from inspiring English sources

Among Hofstadter's examples of paranoid rhetoric from the early sixties, here's an Arizona gun owner testifying against federal control over mail-order firearms: "a further attempt by a subversive power to make us part of one world socialistic government".

One argued that the bill was part of "a further attempt by a subversive power to make us part of one world socialistic government" and that it could "create chaos" and help "our enemies" to seize power.

As the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in his own famous Kennedy-era essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," these Arizona gun enthusiasts were convinced that the American government was being taken over by a "subversive power". Sound familiar?

Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor are just three examples who demonstrate how great comedy can have a subversive power in the hands of the disadvantaged and disenfranchised.

As the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in his own famous Kennedy-era essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," these Arizona gun enthusiasts were convinced that the American government was being taken over by a "subversive power".

One could consider the film overmoralising in that it conflates sexual freedom with corruption, but it has a great subversive power and is still banned in many Arab countries.

Filming the police is a right, but it is also a subversive act and power has historically little tolerance for subversion.

Many of the themes in "Witches and Old Women"–the absence of reason, nightmares, perverted eroticism and fear echo those found in the artist's 14 so-called "Black Paintings", which were created at the same time.The drawings give visitors a new way of appreciating the subversive power of Goya's imagination, from which they seemingly sprang, fully formed.

President of PEN Eritrea in exile, Ghirmai Negash, describes Sactism "as a new genre in Eritrean writing, the importance of which lies in its subversive power in the context of a nation under tyranny".

The Islamic Republic is widely seen by Sunni rulers as a subversive Shia power, capable of sowing troubles, for instance in nearby Bahrain, where the Shia majority has been harshly suppressed.

He had by then read the Russian critic, MM Bakhtin, who was an exponent of what he called "the subversive power of comedy".