Sentence examples for subversive ambition from inspiring English sources

But VanderMeer's take on the postapocalyptic fantasy is not without subversive ambition.

But because back in 1979 she did her level best to tempt then radio producer and Not the Nine O'Clock News creator John Lloyd to abandon his subversive comedy ambitions and join her choreographed backing group of acceptably witty "boys".

However, in an irony Hawthorn appreciated, this meant that in their search for a quick summary of the history of their discipline, students imbibed his subversive message: the ambition to discover the laws governing human behaviour misrepresented the character of "laws" and misunderstood the kind of understanding available where human action is concerned.

A survey of the busy career, subversive attitudes and contradictory ambitions of the graphic designer.

Rereading the novel now is no disappointment, and I am also impressed by Winsor's subversive feminism and the scope and ambition of her historical imagination.

It remains a consistent ambition to be surprising and tilted and subversive and provocative".

Mr. Richardson leaves us not only with a deep appreciation of Picasso's Promethean ambition and prodigious fecundity, but also with a shrewd understanding of his tumultuous, subversive and often disturbing art.

Some subversive.