Sentence examples for subversive shift from inspiring English sources

It's to Abrams' credit that not only does the young woman fight off her aggressors without help, but that the director uses the subversive shift in tone from previous outings to comic effect.

It's a subversive acknowledgment of a culture shift that now seems quaint as compared with consumption-crazed 2012.

And of course, they are used to rip parts of films, overlaid with subversive new typography or edits to shift meaning.

Beyond the immediate impact of such subversive language, Xiao theorizes that a more important shift occurs as the terms come into normal use and lose their sarcastic edge.

This shift seems presaged by Tanaka's celebratory and subversive "Electric Dress," a wearable cascade of colored light bulbs from 1956 that blends painting, sculpture and performance.

Ruiz argues that the fluid and at times subversive character of medieval festivals gave way to highly formalized and hierarchical events reflecting a broader shift in how power was articulated in late medieval and early modern Spain.

Some subversive.

Too subversive.

Subversive, even.

Intentionally subversive?

"Subversive code".