Sentence examples for transgressive act from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the thrill is less in the material than in the transgressive act.

Daniel1, like his author, is a satirist with a particularly transgressive act.

She slips out, dizzied by the transgressive act of going alone to a corner store, to meet her neighbor.

The more people who talk about the transgressive act or repeat it, the greater the cultural impact.

He added that young people saw smoking as a symbol of emancipation, a passage to adulthood and a "transgressive act".

It's true that professing atheism in America is still considered to be a brave and transgressive act.

To be reminded, perhaps, of their utter ordinariness and humanity, which makes their unimaginably transgressive acts all the more thrilling.

Often these are transgressive acts, but many others – like the famous Burnside project in Portland, Oregon and Levi jeans-funded Holy Stoked skatepark in Bangalore – involve the active collaboration and approval of local authorities.

"He had cases in which juveniles that suffered problems or took part in transgressive acts or broke the law, and he would find that they read comics," said David Hajdu, the author of "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America".

And her sensibility is sufficiently ghoulish to keep her undaunted by what she calls Highsmith's "hundreds of raspingly acute portraits of quietly transgressive acts," which is a relatively mild way of characterizing the shock value of Highsmith's tirelessly misanthropic work.

With reference to psychoanalytical, object relations theory (Klein and Winnicott) I argue that the in-between spaces established by transgressive acts, destabilising and disorientating as they may be, should not be categorised as pathological but rather affective territories of potentiality necessary for creative education.