Sentence examples for subverting structures from inspiring English sources

Technology contains the potential, sometimes unrealized, for subverting structures and for providing tangible benefits to women and people of color – a multitude of tiny disruptions that have gone and could go mostly unremarked upon.

Debora Délmar Corp.'s juice bar installation, MINT, has also been criticized, for simply recreating rather than subverting existing structures, this time by The Guardian's Jason Farago.

He also does this more cleverly by subverting the structure of comedy, unpacking the logic of others.

He continues: "Mass Carib, which I wrote with Teddy Kiendl back in 1987 – a comment on the cultural collision between Africa and Europe that took place in the Caribbean, using and subverting the structure of the liturgical mass to make its point – would never get commissioned today; unless some aspect of hip-hop was attached to it".

It ignored the medium's radical potential — how consensual B.D.S.M. could subvert power structures, or how erotic displays of imperfect or disgusting bodies could be a Rabelaisian weapon in a war against élite prudery.

What remains an open question for this avenue of feminist philosophy of religion is how far discourse analysis can go toward ever subverting the belief structures of Pentecostal women ministers or Presbyterian housewives, indeed, how it could even be theoretically possible for it to do so.

Mind you, I say this not because I believe -- as George Will, for example, has argued -- that Jesus was "apolitical," that he cared nothing about challenging political injustice and economic inequity, that he was not interested in subverting the power structures that imprison us.

Crossing over, as Dolezal apparently wanted to do, doesn't subvert the structure; it reinforces it.

In "Xerxes," Handel starts to subvert this structure, interrupting a da capo aria with recitative in place of the B section or having two singers' voices overlap.

"Simulations are simply extracts of reality, and I think it's important for them to subvert the structure of the external world in some subtle way," notes Lek.

But it would be a mistake to under­estimate this novel, or its protagonist, Frankie — a girl as likely to be reading P. G. Wodehouse as she is to be subverting the power structure at Alabaster Prep, where she is a sophomore.