So often I approach articles about Christians in secular magazines with trepidation, because I am so used to having our faith presented as mindless at best and subversive at worst.
It is, in the best possible sense, subversive.
At their best, blogs are subversive, provocative, and fearless.
The best art was subversive, but in very un-'60s, nonideological ways.
Charlie Hebdo is of course best known for subversive humour, which can make it France's most deadly serious paper.
Peg Bracken, an advertising copywriter who nearly half a century ago parlayed her irreverent wit — and her passionate dislike of a traditional womanly duty — into a subversive best seller, "The I Hate to Cook Book," died on Saturday at her home in Portland, Ore.
They are wrong: civic education of this sort is at best ineffective, and often subversive of the moral purpose of schooling.
The stories are subversive in the best possible way.
To riff on religion scholar Robert Bellah, Pentecostal piety is probably best thought of as a subversive civil religion.
This "witty, furious and bitingly detailed story," chosen by the editors of the Book Review as one of the best books of 1999, plays subversive tricks with history as it punctures Ireland's national legend, Richard Eder wrote in these pages.
