Sentence examples for subversive effect from inspiring English sources

Mr. Neumann's trademark humor was in full, subversive effect, balanced by an almost elegiac mood.

They all also consider, to sometimes subversive effect, the traditional balance of power within families, particularly between husbands and wives.

That still-boyish smile — used to such darkly subversive effect in "Cabaret" — quickly returned when the talk turned to life passages he was most happy to revisit.

This three-member art-making team, based in Havana, toys with elements of Modernist art and design to slyly subversive effect.

The burnings of Story of O by American campus feminists in the 1980s have, it seems, had a less enduring and subversive effect than the book itself.

At times it reminded me of Mitchell Lichtenstein's underrated Teeth, a tale of avenging vagina dentata that mixes gross-out with grey matter to delightfully subversive effect.

And the subtler, inherently subversive effects are too numerous to imagine.

Widespread reading for pleasure became well established in the 17th and 18th centuries — and set off alarms about the lascivious or subversive effects on women from a solitary pastime unrestrained by constant surveillance.

The subtext of the public exchange between the two leaders was the subversive effects of a free market on a controlled socialist society -- something the Chinese and the Vietnamese call "peaceful evolution".

China and Russia have seen eye to eye on opposing what they see as the subversive effects of such ideas, which they believe the West is promoting in order to weaken them.

Haydn's Symphony No 92 may seem decidedly ancien régime, but it is full of typically subversive rhythmic effects.