Sentence examples for subversive things from inspiring English sources

Books were once subversive things, causing revolutions, and stimulating unimagined sexual awakenings.

Unusual and subversive things are happening to normal politics in Scotland.

Winston sat in an alcove, which he believed was hidden from the camera, and wrote subversive things in his journal.

"Because Channel 4 is known for doing subversive things, that gets translated into a reputation for weird, niche, dark comedy, and we are fighting against that," he says.

We like to let our imaginations run riot and think of them as a latterday Throbbing Gristle, a bunch of art terrorists doing abusive, subversive things to mainstream pop culture from the margins.

You could say that absinthe is a kindred spirit of so many falsely subversive things: ear piercing for men, tattoos on women, those cigar bars, pole-dancing-aerobics classes, mind erasers, blogging about one's bikini grooming, naming one's bong after a cartoon character.

A head scarf became a contested, subversive thing.

In the end the only subversive thing about "The Talls" is how studiously subversive it isn't.

The most subversive thing is to be happy in spite of the dictator".

With his cracked smile and look of blank fear, he remains the most subversive thing about Modern Family.

A happy ending, however, is what it certainly is, which is the most subversive thing of all.