Sentence examples for subversive factor from inspiring English sources
Religious unrest was another subversive factor under Richard II.
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He considers his vigorous Twitter commentary on the current X Factor series a subversive signifier of his "active opposition" to the show, unaware that such avid attention in fact looks more like an endorsement.
One of the factors that made gangster pictures so subversive was that, in the difficult economic times of the Depression, there already existed the viewpoint that the only way to get financial success was through crime.
Also included are presentations on persistent infection and suppression of host response by alphaviruses, subversive neuroinvasive strategy of rabies virus, neurovirulence and host factors in flavivirus encephalitis, regulation of apoptosis by viruses infecting insects, and Semliki Forest virus infection of laboratory mice as models to study the pathogenesis of viral encephalitis.
He is not humanizing animals; he is decivilizing ordinary life, which is a far more subversive path to take, and sometimes he weeds out the human factor altogether.
Holy Grail fans will have already gobbled up the stage musical version Spamalot of 2004 – still touring – which pumped up the conventional showbiz factor, but the original movie gives you the surreal, subversive elements of anticlimax and self-sabotage.
Maybe, out there, chatting about The X Factor over garden fences, are the last true subversives in Britain.
"The commercialization of art and entertainment is a negative factor in human development," he said in a 2004 documentary by Paul Cronin, "Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16".
It was hostile, subversive.
