Sentence examples for subversive energy from inspiring English sources

There's a subversive energy in his clowning.

It has subversive energy and fun.

The subversive energy of The Servant left a deep mark on film and television for years.

To their critics, these books' popularity might point to a subversive energy among their readers.

Such an interpretation entirely overlooks her subversive energy, the challenging effects of her irony, but that's no matter.

There was genuine hope that it would inject a popular, yet subversive, energy into the arts and help reorientate representations of Muslims.

Millhauser has a rich, sly sense of humor, and the tone of whimsy in much of his work conceals disturbing subversive energies.

Their Rick Rubin-produced "I and Love and You" was a highlight of 2009 for its textural complexity and subversive punky energy.

Never mind that the states are also regulators, of, say, horridly ambitious and deeply subversive renewable energy targets, and the commonwealth feels perfectly at ease to have strong views about those anytime there's an open microphone.

The dancers' quick, dispassionate execution is permeated by crumpling, folding movement; two women walk stiffly into each other's arms, and at the end Ms. Omagbemi does an open-armed, bent-kneed dance that unleashes a sense of subversive, uncontained energy.

But the pontianak also embodies a subversive female energy that is increasingly being embraced by a new wave of writers and film-makers.