Sentence examples for subversive ends from inspiring English sources

And Qiu Zhijie's rubbings of Chinese characters quote sayings of rulers like Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek to politically subversive ends.

When she objected to the idea of practicing a "dead art," Debord suggested that it would be instead be détournement the Situationist reuse of media toward different, subversive, ends.

Kidman conveys both tremulous uncertainty and creeping paranoia with aplomb; Colin Firth twists his understated screen charm to deliciously subversive ends; and Mark Strong cements his reputation as one of modern cinema's most hypnotically unpredictable presences.

Mr. Crumb's "gleeful reappropriation of 'funny animal' characters for adult and subversive ends" (think of Fritz the Cat) owes a debt to Schulz's "Peanuts," or rather to Snoopy, Mr. Hatfield said, and the bitterness of underground comics echoes Schulz's concern with "life's constant disappointments".

While virtual art has sometimes elicited eye rolling reactions from art critics and curators, projects like Cahill's 4th Wall show that the medium can apply the language of fine art to new media with subversive ends.

Just as "Sticks and Bones" parodies the world of sitcoms to explore how civilian America could not assimilate the horrors of the Vietnam War, Suzan-Lori Parks' "Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1, 2 & 3," Young Jean Lee's "Straight White Men" and Rebecca Gilman's "Luna Gale" flirt with mainstream formats for subtly subversive ends.

She performs a similar feat here, to a wonderfully subversive end.

But it's not just the more subversive end of comedy that disproves the myth: Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Futurama, Seinfeld, M*A*S*H (despite being wounded by canned laughter), Roseanne, Frasier, My Name Is Earl, to name a few, have all made an impact on America's popular consciousness.

He has written an old-fashioned story of personal adventure that probes its own themes with subversive intelligence and ends in a lucidity that distilled into hard, honed prose is a pleasure to read.

Beeping like a truck backing up, Ms. Hoffbauer transmitted the work's subversive wit, but she ended in tune with Satie, her sung note ringing through the cavernous gallery.

(Rooney) 'Marie Antoinette' (previews start on Wednesday; opens on Oct. 20) Returning to the same stage where she gave a shattering performance in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," Marin Ireland slips into the fashionista finery of the capricious Queen of France in David Adjmi's subversive tragicomedy about the end of the party at Versailles.