Sentence examples for subversive edge from inspiring English sources

It has at times boasted a distinctly subversive edge, not lost on older viewers.

In turn, his approach erases the subversive edge that made the franchise worthwhile.

Not that there is any risk of comics losing their subversive edge.

Until recently, the art world sanctioned little work with overt religious content unless it possessed a critical, subversive edge.

Despite the subversive edge existing in so many of the films, their celebration of community, consensus and mild but lovable eccentricity is applauded.

He remembers its opposition to that reigning style as having a subversive edge -- the design world's answer to a speak-easy.

She slips a subversive double edge under Mary's worshipful adherence to Gary's every word, effectively signaling that she is not quite the happy homebody.

Chelsea's putting on more than a brave face: it's more fierce and exciting than ever, even as the Lower East Side maintains its once-subversive, still surprising edge; elegant Upper East Side aeries groan under marquee names; and SoHo fights mall status with a new and refreshing energy.

Part of the show's mystique is precisely that it has so little edge or subversive double-entendres.

A result was that Berliners were often in rebellion, doing the opposite of what was expected of them and thus burnishing their reputation for subversive wit and cutting-edge creativity.

It's a sublimely suave anecdote, expert in its thrusts and swerves, on the edge of hysteria, subversive, yet - as so often - tempered with something much gentler and more whimsical: a characteristic Brownjohn mix.