Sentence examples for subversive role from inspiring English sources

A natural provocateur, she pays homage to a string of subversive role models.

UTE MAHLER'S work is testament to the subversive role that fashion can play in an authoritarian state.

Qatar is a conservative Wahhabi society, but it sometimes plays a subversive role in the region, hosting both the Al Jazeera network and an American airbase.

Humphries created a subversive role for himself in British culture, before going on to create aliases as the monstrous Australian superstar housewife, Dame Edna Everage, and the spoof Australian cultural attaché, Sir Les Patterson.

Rather, she says, it is a statement about the subversive role of art, and shows how attempts by governments to use artists as propaganda tools on the frontline backfired.

I'm not trying to cause any trouble!" Mandvi is particularly well suited to this canny, crabby, subversive role: as a performer, he is quick, sharp, focussed, ready to be cantankerous, with an edge of righteous anger that feels volatile enough to go in any direction; he's also warm and energetic, and clearly delighted by absurdity.

The garment, so erotically charged it would have fogged up Helmut Newton's lens, actually makes an elegant scaffolding on which to hang all sorts of looks -- and lends itself to subversive role-playing.

They are seeking out ancillary careers as actors, grafting the conventional fantasy of Hollywood stardom onto their more subversive roles as rock musicians, rappers and even pop singers.

I asked Tudor Jones if Die Antwoord was another conceptual project, if he and Visser had taken on new, more subversive roles.

(It's worth noting that Bledel's tried out more subversive roles before; In "Sin City" she plays Becky, a member of a woman-led clan that eventually traps and kills a wayward cop).

One of the founding fathers of the New Wave of French film, Chabrol was best known for his masterful suspense thrillers, subversive female roles and stinging critiques of the bourgeoisie.