In its citation, the Swedish Academy noted that many of Mr. Mo's works "have been judged subversive because of their sharp criticism of contemporary Chinese society".
The responses were a devastating catalogue of destructive, disparaging and subversive coverage, the most persistent criticism being the media's concentration on the negative.
Part autobiography and part free-form criticism, this charismatically subversive book includes essays on poets canonical (Shelley, Dickinson) and contemporary (Fanny Howe, Louise Glück), as McLane tells how she learned to embrace the ambivalence of her own taste in poems and in people.
McCarthy's most hostile Catholic critic, John Cogley of Commonweal, pointed out, "A totally different selection of film would turn McCarthy into a man on a shining white steed -- infinitely reasonable, burdened with the onus of single-handedly cleaning out subversives in the face of violent criticism".
And he has a weakness for the "beneath the sweet surface lies something subversive and squalid" school of popular-music criticism.
Although he rallied with tradition, Vinea defended the subversive current in front of more serious criticism, and rejected the widespread rumor that Tzara had acted as an agent of influence for the Central Powers during the war.
Like, for example, why you listened to Taylor Swift's Red album because, realistically, you know your individual boycotting won't make any indent on her success, however your subversive knowledge about superficial trends will pay dividends to your later criticism.
The show carefully avoids direct criticism of Iran's Islamic regime; its style is subtly subversive.
It's a frequent criticism of the art world that while art itself is often subversive, the institutional confines within which art is created, funded, and displayed are anything but.
More likely, he is employed to spy on citizens and block websites the government does not like which include most produced by the Ethiopian diaspora.The EPRDF counters criticism by saying it has held the country together against subversives.
