Sentence examples for subversive presence from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the tank has become a subversive presence in our domestic life.

Does he feel himself a dark or subversive presence on the stage?

Perhaps the most harmful insinuation about Rosen is that he would be a subversive presence on the team.

The Prince of Salina chats at a ball to the Piedmontese officer responsible for shooting Garibaldi in the foot in order to remove his subversive presence from what was becoming an ordered and conservative Risorgimento.

So on she goes, crouching down for photos with countless little girls at the speedways, her increasingly relaxed brilliance a subversive presence in a sport where some pundits can make Richard Keys and Andy Gray sound like Gloria Steinem in conversation with Andrea Dworkin.

The totalitarian model makes it clear, too, that much of the recent discussion about the root causes of terror is as distorted as the arguments of those who once argued that the root causes of German Fascist or Soviet Communist terror were in the aggressive behavior of the democracies or even the subversive presence of the Jews.

It's anarchic!" Are you both subversive presences in the culture?

This whole industry – the monochromatic moral universes of Potter, Narnia and Lord Of The Rings; the slo-mo emotional striptease of the hothouse Twilight series, with its cast like some Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue version of Village Of The Damned – is badly in need of the subversive, galvanising presence of an Angela Carter.

But it's a short road from subversive upstart to established presence.

The Italian-born Paris couturier Elsa Schiaparelli really was a startling presence: provocative, passionate, subversive.

Characters you like die without warning, and I couldn't help but notice the slightly subversive comment on the army's presence in it.