Sentence examples for subvert the idea from inspiring English sources

That would very much subvert the idea of what the parent coordinator was going to be".

Maybe they've managed to subvert the idea of the "housewife" once and for all, crawling into its navel "Matrix -style and exploding the Matrix -style inside.

They've both done their best to subvert the idea of identity in an image-obsessed industry, and at times it's hard to tell if they're being ironic or just a bit rubbish.

Nor could they have imagined a candidate who, like Trump, would attempt to subvert the idea that democracy works, that elections in the United States are not "rigged," that losers are losers because they've lost.

Written shortly after the Haitian Revolution, where the slave population overthrow their French rulers, it uses the love story of a mestiza and a European to subvert the idea of a hierarchy of race-based virtue.

I Give It a Year is a romcom, directed by Dan Mazer (who co-wrote Borat and Brüno) which tries to subvert the idea of a romcom by starting with a marriage that doesn't seem to be going all that well.

Fargo subverts the idea of your "niceness".

Garland could have built further on that, subverting the idea that she ever gave a crap about humanity.

See also: Beyoncé and her all-female band; and Nicki Minaj, wittily subverting the idea of the male gaze.

So chronology is another art-historical convention that Gego subverts: the idea that art progresses in neat, incremental steps, like beads on a string.

In 1997, the equally brilliant conceptual artist Elisabeth Subrin produced a shot-by-shot re-creation (made in color, using actors), reclaiming the original film from the male gaze and subverting the idea of documentary as truth.