Be subversive and change the zeitgeist of despair.
Those surviving adaptive cancer cells have successfully responded to the selection pressure of the host microenvironment by subversive molecular changes that impact mitochondrial functions and promote glycolysis.
"It's the subversive way to change adult behavior".
There is something profoundly subversive about this change of focus.
When a personality cult helps to uphold corruption and brutality in a dictatorship, satire can be a subversive force for change -- a point that The Interview movie, in its own half-witted way, was perhaps trying to make.
They believe social change is subversive to the America with which they've become familiar, i.e., white, mainly male, Protestant, native born, straight.
Playing for Change is subversive in the most wonderful way, and all of you cynical, snarky policy wonks can just shut up, or go back to wonking.
As users fiddle with two metal bars that resemble torture instruments, the installation's oscillation frequency changes, creating subversive sounds that are all too iconic of Cecotto's work.
A poem's relation to social change is quietly subversive.
What's really subversive is to try to change the system from within.
