Sentence examples for subversive power from inspiring English sources

— is the source of the film's sly, subversive power and also of its formal ingenuity.

Richard Pryor's "History Lesson" to realize the subversive power of humor.

6. Listen to Richard Pryor's "History Lesson" to realize the subversive power of humor.

The subversive power of "May the Twelfth" could not have been too great, however.

In true Barnes fashion, Red Noses celebrates the subversive power of laughter.

Salbi looks appalled – then points out the subversive power of Turkish soap operas.

The British governors who ran the island banned dancing and fiddle-playing, fearing their subversive powers.

Bess, Crown and Sportin' Life form a diabolical trinity of mythical and subversive powers.

An unrepentant Tony Benn declared himself unpersuaded that the Queen does not still hide unaccountable and subversive powers up her well-tailored sleeve.

In order to set me up as some sort of elitist dolt eager to squash the subversive powers of humor and laughter, Walter Kirn, in his review of my book "Snark" (Feb. 22), reversed the meaning of what I wrote.

From its first pages, which celebrate Stephen Colbert's aggressive irony, to the examples of brilliant abusive writing quoted at the end, the book is a celebration of the subversive powers of humor — a defense of satire, irony, wit, invective, profanity and even trash talk, joined to an attack on the knowing, lazy, evasive and cowardly writing I've identified as snark.