Sentence examples for subvert with from inspiring English sources

"What you can do now," she said, "is subvert with art that disguises itself as commerce".

The moldiest is the suburbia-as-hell cliché that was revived by "American Beauty" and whose solemnity "Red Doors" tries to subvert with humor.

"It's quite a colourful record," says Rhys. "My intention was to write an acoustic album of quite sweet songs, which I sometimes subvert with darker lyrics".

That was something I am always trying to subvert with Bloc Party.

His tables, chairs, sofas, beds and sideboards subvert, with varying degrees of audacity, established domestic archetypes -- while remaining both functional and comfortable.

Initially light-hearted scenarios are subverted with violent, tragic or sinister events, with 1940s muzak adding an extra surreal layer.

"The old adage that no one likes a loser is gloriously subverted with Barry who is both lovable and hilarious.

The singers wore evening dress but, in the case of the men, cleverly subverted, with Lukas Jakobski's tall Pistola and Peter van Hulle's shorter Bardolph roughed up to make a classic partnership.

In the preface he states that deceit is "a depressing subject", but thanks to his memoir style, which frequently reads more like a hilarious confessional than a traditional work of science, any sobering lows are subverted with personal anecdotes.

Hall is also from Long Island, Great Neck, where he grew up eating the traditional Jewish food that he now seems to take pleasure in subverting with pork: the crackly-skinned pig's head sometimes comes with thick, charred tortillas made from matzo meal, and matzo balls wrapped in bacon are reminiscent of Scotch eggs, which is fitting, considering Hall's Scottish heritage.

Whereas The Office shocked with its characters (David Brent's delusional lack of self-awareness), and The Royle Family subverted with a format that even Samuel Beckett might have rejected as lacking dramatic potential (a family sit in a room watching telly), this is more of a throwback to the traditional sitcoms of the 70s.