Sentence examples for subversive purpose from inspiring English sources

Landis went straight on to An American Werewolf in London before making his most immaculate movie, Trading Places (1983), the one that perfectly achieves his subversive purpose.

His first show had a somewhat subversive purpose, to counter the excessively large prints that were popular in the 1960's, but today there's no need to rationalize mini-prints.

For those viewers who find that theory a bit dubious (mostly all of them), writer and director Jamie Kastner offers a neat solution: tell the story of disco through the eyes of its "revolutionary masterminds": a sparkly trio waving their hands over a disco ball as they plot the liberation of America's underclass, using unwitting musicians who have no sense of their subversive purpose.

The good news is that so far, it navigates that challenging territory with intelligence, wit and subversive purpose.

(The fluting, camp swagger of some of his lines echoes that of the British playwright Joe Orton, whose dark-comic blueprint McDonagh has adapted for his own subversive purposes).

The smiles of Finnish athletes and catalogue models, soon to be redeployed in Tom's subversive purposes, cover dozens of pages.

An even closer relative is Sidney Lumet's satirical "Network," whose punch line, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore," "Bamboozled" appropriates for its own subversive purposes.

Carroll's genius with animals lay in a subversive re-purposing of stereotypes.

Maybe somebody noticed his link to Polke and Baselitz or saw that, like them and David Salle, Mr. Daniels stole a few tricks from Picabia, the quick-change artist and all-purpose subversive.

History is therefore subversive to the essential purpose of medical ethics; its only conceivable role is the ludicrously Whiggish one of revealing 'improvements' in morals over time.

They are wrong: civic education of this sort is at best ineffective, and often subversive of the moral purpose of schooling.