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"subversive" Definitions
  1. trying or likely to destroy or damage a government or political system by attacking it secretly or indirectly
"subversive" Synonyms
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JON PARELES Of course, what's subversive about it is that it's not subversive at all.
I would emphasize subtle but crucial words here: possibility to act as subversive, not being subversive.
It is very subversive to be truthful and it is very subversive to just kind of the innocence of things as they are.
"Having kind of mainstream acts alongside more subversive ones - maybe that brings out the subversive ones more," said Elliot Galvin, keyboard player in jazz band Dinosaur.
And they had no idea how subversive it really was.
Everything in Girls Night Out bounces with subversive, bubbling vivacity.
Another area of the villa spotlights Hirst's more subversive style.
Other investors include Subversive Capital, Silver Spike Capital, and Bolt.
Pakistan claims that India, too, has covertly sponsored subversive groups.
But maybe we can like pink now and it's subversive?
The most subversive selection might be its director, John Lee.
It's not some sort of subversive political statement, then. No!
Subversive really seems to be the mantra of Riverdale, huh?
If Faye is invisible, the subversive Cusk is the outlaw.
Yu's ideas were revolutionary and utterly subversive in that context.
Subversive market research The breakfast incident helped turn the tide.
A man celebrating himself in makeup is a subversive act.
That may be the most subversive thing about it, ­actually.
It was called Carefree White Girl, a (then) subversive sendup.
Beyoncé continues to be more subversive as her fame grows.
Let Romanians watch them, hear some subversive messages, and laugh.
Any mention of it on social media is considered subversive.
In its day, "The Art of Biblical Narrative" was subversive.
"It's much more subversive than a buffed bunny," he said.
Readers who liked it saw an author being intentionally subversive.
It's a pretty subversive approach for a show to take.
If that were all, "Simplicius" might not seem especially subversive.
In its blasé way, "Don't Call Me Son" is subversive.
She's just using it in subtle and occasionally subversive ways.
And yet, in its own way, Tall Girl is subversive.
This conclusion has subversive implications for the charter school movement.
So reading certainly has moral value — and is increasingly subversive.
Because Islam introduced literacy, it had pervasive and subversive impact.
It's not groundbreakingly subversive, but it's alternately funny and creepy.
And it is a revolutionary act — truth is always subversive.
Yet taken alone, it doesn't feel particularly pointed or subversive.
The Green Book was subversive in another way as well.
In the two Forward pieces, the term "subversive" is used.
Her voyage takes place on a more intimate, subversive level.
Having a name for this felt powerful, subversive, and meaningful.
Back then, the games I played were creative, weird, and often incredibly subversive, because the relatively low barrier to entry allowed a flood of creative, weird and subversive people to make things and share them.
" The second, a "subversive portrayal" – a role based on " 'ethnic' terrain.
Serge Gainsbourg: humorous, provocative, satirical, and/or a subversive musical genius.
It was an escape from the mainstream and it was subversive.
They're more appetizers and pops of subversive wit than main dishes.
Other targets, from Khrushchev to hipsters, received the same subversive treatment.
Enjoy browsing the subversive, satirical and above all politically ambiguous artwork!
Kudos to you for the subversive premium seating ticket giveaway, too.
The structures can feel subversive just because they still stubbornly exist.
But it is becoming an increasingly dangerous tool for subversive activity.
And in that way, it feels almost more subversive and contemporary.
I had some subversive instincts as well—just not necessarily blue.
While the results are actually pretty expected, they're also deeply subversive.
Art and comedy unquestionably have subversive power and so can symbols.
People here do [racism] in such a nice and subversive way.
The first is artistic; the second is a little more subversive.
It's subversive and bitter and warm all at the same time.
Baidu, the Chinese answer to Google, blocks potentially subversive search results.
And we're not just talking about subversive baking or dirty pastries.
Her policies, even where bold, are hardly on the subversive fringe.
This will seem impossibly pretentious to some, thrillingly subversive to others.
In reality, Ms. Cusset's text is less subversive than her title.
This is when Game of Thrones' subversive element really kicked in.
Was he afraid of retribution because his drawings were too subversive?
A new book includes subversive images taken during China's Cultural Revolution.
Food, she said, can be a subversive vehicle for social change.
Even so, subversive political movements attract eccentrics, and eccentrics arrive early.
Even popular books might be sexy, gritty, shocking, subversive, morally provocative.
It feels subversive and pleasurable, like — well, like sleeping with strangers.
Why do people celebrate these subversive holiday films and not others?
Only by doing something subversive could artists get their message across.
Blume praised "subversive" books for the ways they developed her imagination.
Back in the 1950s, this twist would have been truly subversive.
Matt's movement joins an undercurrent of subversive churches running through the city.
Due to the subversive nature of the crime, it earned international attention.
Today some would call him a subversive operative of the Deep State.
Because you never really know who you're talking to, advertising becomes subversive.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Subversive Prophet is on view February 12–May 31.
Wet N' Wild Glitter Eye Shadow —> Pat McGrath Mothership III: Subversive Palette
That may be the most subversive aspect of Trier's superhero movie riff.
Her ideas and independence are considered worse than unladylike – they're dangerous. Subversive.
There's always a wild child of the bunch, though... and that's Subversive.
Does this popularity suggest that his plays have lost their subversive edge?
He'd have to do something vaguely subversive to win this national championship.
But the feds are fighting back, using even more subversive legal tactics.
They thought of homosexuality as a threatening, subversive presence that could organize.
The well established use of social media by subversive elements is incontrovertible.
"He had this sort of weird subversive upper hand," Dweezil says laughing.
Hackers might push subversive messages onto North Korea's 3m-odd mobile phones.
" To uncover this subversive text, Kelly argues, "we have to read carefully.
It's also classic troll behavior: cruel, biting, and a little bit subversive.
Tina Landau directs this subversive study of faith and family (4803:00).
Tina Landau directs this subversive study of faith and family (2:00).
It was also seen as subversive and a sign of moral weakness.
These men and boys make the subversive power of makeup crystal clear.
But VanderMeer's take on the postapocalyptic fantasy is not without subversive ambition.
Recent years have seen a flowering of subversive feminist writing on desire.
His art — subversive, erotic drawings of hyper-muscular men — offered an escape.
Brendan Fernandes brings his subversive take on dance and art to museums.
Active measures are not necessarily limited to pamphleteering and subversive media work.
Some see a subversive message about Washington's failings; others see his glorification.
If Smith was the ultimate establishment figure, Hume was the ultimate subversive.
If the show was somewhat subversive for religious fare, it wasn't disrespectful.
She didn't realize what kind of subversive, morbid glory was in there.
Saint Margaret's first impression in stained glass may not strike as subversive.
Ramos said Jesus' death was a subversive act, not a submissive one.
And documentary filmmakers have been at the country's subversive and experimental forefront.
The most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain.
But that sleek, zingy sexiness is just where their subversive attraction lies.
In short, Booksmart's costumes feel just as subversive as the film itself.
The sport of writing in a tightly organized genre like popular song is not to smuggle in specifically subversive subtext when the censors aren't looking but to make the subversive emotions universal enough not to need a subtext.
The works in this show emphasize touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive.
So, if the film was aiming to be subversive, it missed the mark.
VRV is the sister label offshoot headed by Droid Behavior residents Raíz & Subversive.
It has a provocative, maybe even subversive course title: Hacking for Defense (H4D).
It's nothing subversive or anything like that; just a brief utterance of thanks.
There's an extra-special subversive twist here, one that's optimized to spread misery.
And the plain text somehow makes the often spicy subject matter more subversive.
Is a raised fist a sign of free speech or subversive political expression?
But she's slyly subversive and wittier than her image gives her credit for.
There will be a couple of Instagram moments, but in a subversive way.
Who thought to bring this raw, subversive work to Netflix's growing comedy lineup?
Sure, this may not seem so subversive to someone unfamiliar with Turkish politics.
I certainly never thought it was subversive to society — only to good taste.
For all we know, the mutant instantly grew her own subversive armpit carpeting.
In that sense, there is subversive and untapped power in the melting pot.
If it's more subversive, real world horror you're after, hit up It Follows.
Before he created those iconic kids' shows, Henson was a subversive experimental filmmaker.
China's thousands of censors have ramped up efforts to block subversive online messages.
BrazilBrazil's beauty is passionate, subversive, mystical, and in plain sight, all at once.
But his anecdotes, like many of his lyrics, have a bitter, subversive undertone.
The documentary's subversive quality lies in how Mr. Mansky chose to shoot it.
The subversive combo of apprehension and cuteness, she says, resonates particularly with women.
Sometimes it's not necessarily about being outright with it, it's about being subversive.
The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations — effectively a blacklist — was also issued.
This novel is generous without prejudice, which feels at once subversive and refreshing.
"For [gay men] it's [sis] subversive because they challenge hegemonic masculinity," Holliday says.
The formula of pop song plus subversive video no longer feels as relevant.
"This is some serious next level subversive shit for their audience," Cote affirmed.
Here's a breakdown of the music, the moves and that subversive studded armband.
Take in the subversive beauty of J'ouvert, a Caribbean street party in Brooklyn.
We must flood the country with USB sticks and literature with subversive content.
What makes You subversive, brilliant television is delightfully simple: Joe is an idiot.
Hoggard is still playing into this role as the spontaneous, subversive rock star.
Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as somehow subversive or illegal.
Each room is filled with unsettling, subversive art pieces that critique organized religion.
Which, for a pop star of his status, is an increasingly subversive move.
The experience will be at once satisfying, surprising and subversive—I can't wait!
But you're not going to do that, because you're a socially engaged human being and it's time to accept that we need a subversive, angry, bleak, and cynical film to match our subversive, angry, bleak, and cynical hearts this Christmas.
With its rigid propriety, Social Usage could hardly have propounded a more subversive idea.
The women and men wearing it aren't sweet and submissive — they're smart and subversive.
But there's really nothing subversive at all, except that it subverts dependence on others.
The subversive industry is feared by the establishment, with investors reliant on legal loopholes.
We compiled the best of band­leader Questlove's cleverly subversive ditties for recent political guests.
Since at least 2013, China has been cracking down on subversive Hong Kong publishers.
Pachucos subversive aesthetic became notorious, enraging establishment types on both sides of the border.
Merriam-Webster's young social-media team has carried on a kind of subversive empiricism.
After all, one John Cena butt-chugging scene does not a subversive film make.
But, she does use the guise of feminine acceptability to its most subversive ends.
This funny, sexy, and subversive take on the "biker bad boy" trope is fantastic.
Let's move on with our New Year by being a little subversive: Your thoughts?
Its most subversive achievement is the way it makes Russian sympathizers of us all.
That's the terror of zombie movies, and it's also the subversive fun of them.
The captured boat was carrying weapons "for subversive purposes", the brief SPA report said.
Just months after release, Playdead's subversive and creepy puzzle platformer, Inside, has removed Denuvo.
Some people enjoy professional spoils from viral fame, even when they are being subversive.
Undercover detectives routinely infiltrated political organizations and followed outspoken activists they deemed potentially subversive.
All of this melded into the subversive nature of the nascent Internet and DInc.
Maybe Mem Fox was detained in the US for her subversive works 😒 pic.twitter.
Anyway, so took the photo to be like subversive, I'd say, more than funny.
This ultra-orthodox approach would have benefitted from a more subversive or sarcastic presentation.
In this case, that idea is the weird, seemingly subversive world of professional mascotting.
It might be hard to understand how a dictionary could have been deemed 'subversive.
In the 1840s, Jane's love for herself was so subversive it bordered on revolution.
Brooklyn is so progressive, so I wouldn't even consider having a beard subversive there.
A safety pin, a stupid hat: These seem like truly subversive concepts to you.
In 2011, Ai himself was arrested for allegedly publishing subversive material on his blog.
In Syria, this attachment becomes dangerous, and not only because of Presley's subversive music.
His meaning was deeper and more subversive than some of his songs might suggest.
Back then, Vital Signs soulful songs about love, heartbreak and disillusionment were deeply subversive.
To make it even more subversive, shouldn't you give it to rich white men?
This blistering — yet secretly tender — subversive rom-com is back for its third season.
If not exactly subversive or conceptual, and undeniably repetitive, the collection still had depth.
Some denounce them as evidence of subversive sabotage by hangovers from a prior administration.
Letting nonengineers interact directly with a computer was seen as harebrained, utopian—subversive, even.
This subversive aspect of Carnival is probably something that would never fly with Trump.
Now the work — subversive, hilarious, and potent — is free to stand on its own.
We use a lot of embellishment and color, mixed with subversive concepts and humor.
It also proves illusionary the Baudrillardian ideal of subversive conformity popular in the 1980s.
I don't know that he always realizes how inventive he is, or how subversive.
Western unity in repudiating the Kremlin, an exodus from eastern Ghouta and subversive knitting.
The thoughtful and companionable humor of "Shrill" belies its subversive manifesto about self-liberation.
PB: One sense is that when jurors nullify, they think of it as subversive.
Among a younger, savvier audience, the implication of sex wasn't subversive; it was hackneyed.
"I'm very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman," she said.
Her tone was playfully subversive — it was a warning as much as an announcement.
He then went on a diatribe against a website whose work he considered subversive.
Ms. Manning's atypical identity adds a frisson of subversion to her already subversive acts.
Sobriety, and the refusal to partake in alcogenic culture, is subversive, rebellious, and edgy.
As reprehensible and manipulative as she is, Madame Satan is also a subversive delight.
Onstage or off duty, sex workers' accouterments form the subversive foundation of role play.
You know, the ones that cast her as a quietly subversive, cutting-edge rebel.
It's a fantastic film—smart, subversive, with eminently welcome hip swivels by Oscar Isaac.
His songs were smart, sometimes a bit subversive, provocative, even quirky, but always interesting.
In light of this example, does anyone still think Kander's Trump picture is subversive?
Triple Candie were, depending whom you ask, either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
The term is always charged somehow, freighted with meaning and potential conflict, vaguely subversive.
DJ Harvey has been bringing a subversive, punk-rock attitude to disco dancefloors for decades.
Madonna has always been an example of a strong, subversive woman in the music industry.
White Girl might follow a coke binge, but it's telling a much more subversive story.
There was a time where it was subversive, frowned upon, and sometimes even outright divisive.
It doesn't need to be tediously explained, it can just be an enjoyable, subversive factor.
Videla and his fellow coup leaders promised to defeat what they described as subversive groups.
Simply holding up a sign of any sort is considered subversive enough to merit arrest.
And for devout members like Fisher, seeking answers from outside sources is often deemed subversive.
The debaters have become popular and subversive figures in recent years within their ideological subcultures.
The thrill of an excellent pop record is already subversive; delight is disruptive by definition.
But with heterosexual rough sex [where men are dom tops], that's not at all subversive.
Though unexpected, the optical details of Forero's work read as playful and friendly, not subversive.
I think subversion feels inspiring, and right now what feels subversive is pink and flowers.
How can Melehi's subversive, often site-specific practice, be displayed in a converted London townhouse?
I think that they operate in a very different way, a more subversive way actually.
Then we end with a parting shot of subversive fun courtesy of television's favorite hacker.
Regime consolidation over ashes still can be useful for illicit businesses and regionally subversive operations.
Now there was a genuinely subversive piece of art: gay men celebrating the orange Antichrist!
Osakwe is obsessed with the female form and seduction, subversive interests for a Nigerian woman.
It's easy to forget how jaw-droppingly subversive the White Album opener was in 1968.
Heretofore, the malfeasance and misdemeanor have had no confessed ideological purposes, no constitutionally subversive ends.
Attacking Trump isn't in itself subversive—and there's a Goldilocks dynamic to the whole endeavor.
Too extreme for mainstream success, too subversive to fit neatly within their own respective circles.
DeviantArt, as its name would imply, is home to bizarre, subversive, occasionally downright unsettling works.
Even as a kid, I knew that there was something deliciously subversive happening on screen.
I fear a loss of our subversive, loving, critical, expansive, creative, perverted, sexy, NSFW status.
Her music, which takes the rules of pop and crystallises them into subversive, pristine formations.
" Greece and Cyprus were found to have shown "no meaningful resistance to Russia's subversive activities.
This series is impossible to classify; genre elements mingle in mythical and gleefully subversive ways.
Ms. Lucas remains a wonderfully bold and subversive model for women in this #MeToo moment.
Everything about the work in Yun-Fei Ji's show "Rumors, Ridicules and Retributions" is subversive.
But there is something very subversive about a strong woman dressing like a femme fatale.
" He added, "That is what I am primarily concerned with in terms of subversive activities.
But its resistance to a vision of perpetual self-improvement makes the book quietly subversive.
In the futuristic "Arlington," a prisoner and the man monitoring her attempt a subversive romance.
But teachers are given a wide berth to teach topics that Beijing sees as subversive.
Reactionaries imagined themselves squeezed between globalist Jewish bankers above and subversive Jewish refugee hordes below.
Teachers have to watch what they say — students are required to report any subversive comments.
"In reality, much of the most interesting science fiction is much more subversive," he continued.
This brand of sly, subversive humor has become a hallmark of the Hong Kong protests.
This was his winning intuition: that he could triumph as the subversive plain-speaking outsider.
Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it.
The police found materials that were deemed to be subversive, making it subject to closure.
But there was a time when clothing could still be permeated with biting subversive potential.
At this stage, these jobs have to entail being more subversive, more biting, more serious.
Its title, Acts of Sedition, refers to subversive acts by individuals against institutions of power.
At the same time, we're at a point where laughing is a subversive act now.
To that end, they praised Pixar's Wall-E as a surprisingly subversive mishmash of genres.
Accordingly, Jafri's three small installations from the project are as deceptively innocent as they are subversive.
Keep reading to hear all about Amazon's brand new "subversive feminist agenda," as Creed-Miles says.
Playing with that juxtaposition was an essential part of the subversive feminist agenda that takes place.
The subversive YouTubers over at Aunty Donna have written a protest song disguised as a carol.
Photo: GettyFew people would think of the British cartoon character Peppa Pig as a subversive icon.
Son of Schmilsson is perched at the perfect midpoint between his pop perfection and subversive imagination.
He attributed differences in policy and "subversive" tactics by President Donald Trump's appointees for his departure.
It's easy to imagine the show's subversive effervescence getting crushed under the weight of additional explanations.
His output was bawdy and "populaire", executed in a graphic style rife with subversive noir humour.
And if Berlin rules apply, the most subversive, unusual places always crop up in the East.
But Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, involving subversive video games and giant mecha.
Gentrification has been so thoroughly demonised that a mere discussion of its benefits might seem subversive.
Mr Shulkin told reporters that he had been given him the authority to purge "subversive" staff.
Subversive Capital led, and was joined by return backers like Apeiron Investment Group and Bail Capital.
It is no question that the narratives depicted in cinema have been more subversive than ever.
Simply sharing or "liking" commentary that the regime deems subversive has landed hapless netizens in prison.
This is a subversive world where men fight to simply get a seat at the table.
After Friday's court decision on Friday, the Kenyan censor said it still considered Rafiki morally subversive.
The beastial images are certainly subversive, but they also suggest that animals make great cuddle buddies.
However, strapping on can also be a form of subversive, gender-fucking sex with liberating possibilities.
I find it comforting and empowering that women are actively engaging in subversive and transgressive acts.
It makes light of an actual death, but there's nothing daring or subversive going on here.
I honestly love the idea of the subversive stitch where you reclaim that form of craft.
Is it subversive—or cathartic, or even therapeutic—to expose the ugliest ways people see you?
Carroll's deeply subversive, nonsensical embrace of the absurd and truly strange has been mostly painted over.
Confession strikes me as crucial to mental health, but I've always considered it a subversive act.
That thought was so subversive, so unChinese, that in 2013 it was officially, though secretly, condemned.
He was voted into this year's All-Star Game by fans as a runaway subversive joke.
She isn't a sensualist shape-shifter like FKA twigs or a subversive formalist like St. Vincent.
There are subversive streaks of feminism amidst the hellfire of the hilarious prank war that ensues.
Others are heavy costumes de Nieves wears in his performances, frozen in subversive or menacing poses.
He and other young Ufologists perceive the UFO community and discourse as counter-cultural, subversive even.
But the things that pique my interest the most are the very small, very subversive synchronicities.
But the romantic mood has only continued under Piccioli, combined with a cooler, more subversive poetry.
Mr. Norris's undeniably dexterous hand is most effective — and subversive — when it tickles, instead of bludgeons.
We are social animals, and most of us would be uncomfortable with being seen as subversive.
They also poke fun at crossword convention, too, and that appealed to the subversive in me.
They also poke fun at crossword convention, too, and that appealed to the subversive in me.
He focused on people on government watch lists, searching their mobile phones for content considered subversive.
In a Doris Day world on the cusp of the feminist movement, the semiotics were subversive.
Its theatre and film directors, with their quietly subversive messages, were revered across the Soviet Union.
We also covered Subversive Capital's $225 million raise for a SPAC real estate investment trust.-Jeremy 
In June 19833, the Congolese authorities accused him subversive activities and expelled him from the country.
More discreet but no less subversive are the clergy's efforts to protect witnesses of police abuses.
When operettas enjoyed a resurgence after World War II, they were desexualized, sunny and hardly subversive.
More than two decades in, his "in the bad guy's head" schtick is no longer subversive.
They traded accusations of being Mafiosi, subversive, hatemongers, Russian trolls, flat-earthers and everything in between.
Teachers suspected of dissent were punished, and textbooks were rewritten to weed out material deemed subversive.
"Little Women," written and directed by Gerwig, is a subversive new take on a classic novel.
Most critics were won over by "The Boys"' irreverent, subversive take on superheroes in pop culture.
"There's something so subversive and yet loving about technology at the same time, right?" he says.
The Spanish saw it as subversive, linked to pre-Columbian festivities and beliefs, and banned it.
On niche forums from 4chan to closed Facebook groups, memes peddling subversive or insular humor — e.g.
Since Mr. Jatar's arrest, the government has intensified its focus on arresting those it deems subversive.
Of course, not everyone applauds the appropriation by corporate marketing departments of a once-subversive practice.
"When you saw them perform, they seemed highly subversive and highly uncontainable," said Mr. Mills, laughing.
Many sketches from the show remain incredibly funny, and would still seem subversive and wild today.
Here, all of Valentin's artistic preoccupations come together: dramatic interaction, kinetic force, and subversive sexual subtext.
Never mind being queer or trans—in those days, anything other than heterosexual was considered subversive.
Despite the fake names, the fact no raids and no punishments will result, this essay is subversive.
I wouldn't necessarily call it subversive if someone wants to look smart and enjoy a natural pleasure.
There was just subversive musical numbers, sexy trophy boys, and good, old-fashioned roasting of industry elites.
The smart, subversive Zootopia charmed everyone early on, as did a strong remake of The Jungle Book.
But I just think there's nothing subversive about just straight-up mimicry, you know what I mean?
As a last-minute, desperate, subversive act against human stupidity and cruelty, art had to be public.
She made clear she believes Omar, a hijab-wearing African refugee, was a subversive threat to America.
Brosch entangles women's objectification with environmental degradation as subversive mermaids that bend the rules in polluted water.
So her studio imagined a series of subversive, welcoming "barriers" made of lighthouses, hammocks, and pipe organs.
Is there anything more subversive than tweeting simple emoji instead of participating in arguments with actual words?
To play the game that way would be the defeat of Dave Chappelle the subversive comic champion.
That winking, subversive humor is on display in the very first video that made Haley TikTok famous.
On Monday, Supreme announced its latest offering, a collection created with iconic, subversive American photographer Nan Goldin.
The act of getting a tattoo has long been a socially subversive strand of counterculture in Russia.
It's an outrageous, brilliant phenomenon concocted by either a single subversive genius or a group of them.
But that doesn't mean Christopher Robin doesn't traverse some intriguing and subversive terrain on its way there.
Her parents were Polish, though they hid it; mustn't speak the language, mustn't practise that subversive Christianity!
But when I stepped in the elevator, I was a subversive temporary graffiti artist, not unlike Banksy.
The company committed to a wide release and has put real promotional dollars behind the subversive comedy.
Their second album feels subversive, weird, and elastic, a stamp on pop that could only be theirs.
It's not subversive or unexpected, but the emotions are so precisely rendered as to feel compelling anyway.
I'm turned on by him being turned on, and excited by the subversive casualness of the sex.
So too is the discovery of subversive attachments between ourselves—premised not on terror, but on solidarity.
In an era of empowerment feminism, her desperate, sensual, subversive pop dug deeply into the human experience.
Obvious as that statement seems, it feels subtly subversive in some circles inside St. Louis and beyond.
Lines and lines of smiley-face emojis flooded the article's comments section in a quietly subversive protest.
Rather, her goofy, light-hearted touch allows her subversive satire to cross over to a broader audience.
Its goal of 'outing' professors for their views helps to create the appearance of something secretly subversive.
It's the same with fan communities: It's nice to have what feels like a subversive taste approved.
The freshest example in film is sneakily packaged in what was hailed as a subversive, feminist comedy.
If you think about it, there is something quite subversive about the way the movie business works.
Underlying many of Doki Doki Literature Club's subversive elements are familiar tropes of anime and visual novels.
The work is difficult, funny, powerful, mightily subversive, and a testament to the depth of his focus.
This has been an endeavor by turns deeply serious, deliberately subversive, and flamboyantly exciting, depending on context.
Print magazines, and underground zines in particular offered entry into subversive music scenes the mainstream media shunned.
Until then, Saudi Arabia will make a lot of noise and attempt subversive activities, but nothing more.
And I'd love to be able to say that there's sly, subversive method in his madcappery here.
The course has the anodyne title "The Economist's View of the World," but its purpose is subversive.
The subversive cadre of women over 60 prove that "old" is not what it used to be.
The show does get off to a slightly subversive start, before the Trek-tech piety sets in.
Mr. Stanfield likes to inject his press appearances with a bit of subversive je ne sais quoi.
The magazine was founded in 1974 by Tom Forcade as a subversive record of the marijuana counterculture.
Its goal of "outing" professors for their views helps to create the appearance of something secretly subversive.
What he read felt impressively subversive, and he immediately began envisioning what he would do with it.
Monday's event showed how the contemporary street-party version of the holiday retains a subversive, liberating edge.
"I think making jokes is always a way of being subversive without being directly confrontational," she says.
But officials say dwelling on such events is subversive "historical nihilism" aimed at corroding the party's authority.
From maximalist pajamas to subversive Swedish men's wear, T featured a range of emerging brands in 2017.
As Smalls has pointed out, in its full context, "Portrait" is not a wildly politically subversive image.
While he doesn't deny Russia's involvement or subversive intent, he believes their impact has been wildly overstated.
Of course, many attempts at subversive satire will fall flat, coming off as more tasteless than witty.
He explained that moving toward mediums traditionally considered "craft" allowed a more subversive conversation that he desired.
Americans struggled with this idea that popular culture, their popular culture, could be subversive in this way.
In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.
When it's a woman showing impressive endurance, however, it comes across as subversive, and more empowering for it.
The Chinese government is highly sensitive to attempts to organize protests or support what it considers subversive messages.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bowie had emerged as one of the most subversive artists around.
Granted, he did not frame Iggy Pop Life Class as a subversive act, but that's not his style.
It's essentially a subversive Riot Grrl manifesto against misogynist boors disguised within the spaced-out keys of techno.
The final product is a travesty that is clearly trying to be subversive but ends up being offensive.
But there are also blistering tales of child marriage, polygamy and philandering; subversive stuff for a conservative region.
For some people, the sense that something is forbidden or subversive is at the core of their interest.
Iran has a record of subversive action and supporting allied militias in the region—and of attacking shipping.
She's a feminist and she pushes the idea of being a woman with a quirkiness and being subversive.
In this world, Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, using subversive video games and giant mecha.
Their style is minimal and borders on "normcore," but without the subversive edge that characterized its early iteration.
In Canada, the authorities interned many Witnesses during the war on grounds that they were a "subversive" force.
Mr Liu's stories are scientifically rigorous; Mr Han's are allegorical and uncanny—but also grittier and more subversive.
There's a way that he is telling a kind of narrative in history that is kind of subversive.
"The show is a weird, subversive, tiny little show," said Sam Esmail, the creator, holding his Golden Globe.
You scratch my back, I'll track, hunt, and turn over this "subversive" who's causing you problems from abroad.
It's obviously flawed, but I find that the text is subversive and somewhat revolutionary at the same time.
She's a cultural icon, best known for being an absolute savage and for being subversive symbol in China.
The procession of amateur performers has itself become a more subversive act in an increasingly regulated city space.
Others, like columnist George Will, even flirted with the fantasy that Trump was some sort of deliberate subversive.
Sweetly subversive, the result was Instagrammed to the nines, and the wooden cake kept as a collector's item.
A president may also remove subversive elements in the nation itself, that is not what Erdogan has done.
But when that pastor is Bell and he's speaking in the heart of the Bible Belt, it's subversive.
The Club Kids brought queerness, gender fluidity, and groundbreaking fashion to the national dialogue in a subversive way.
Their subversive and often humorous paintings, performances, prints, collages and texts have lost none of their provocative power.
Consider the three main types of subversive attacks on democratic societies: cybersecurity hacking, financial corruption, and information warfare.
"In this humility-poor environment, the idea of disruption appeals as a kind of subversive provocation," she writes.
The agents were instructed to carry out sabotage and other subversive activities, standard C.I.A. procedure around the world.
"NATO is more important than ever with Russia's growing subversive activities in the region and beyond," Rubio said.
"American Housewife," an awful attempt to transplant "Roseanne" into the age of economic inequality, mistakes sophomoric for subversive.
They're going to keep trying to do this so we have to be aware of this subversive lobbying.
Growing pressure for independence, however, prompted colonial government to ban the flags as subversive, and most were destroyed.
I've since read others of Garth's comics, and he has this way of just being so cheekily subversive.
Sex—or Hefner's Pepsi-clean version of it—was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy.
By 2008, they took on a more subversive, futuristic-looking form — one-half Matrix, one-half sex shop.
When a one enters this place in such subversive art forms, the likelihood of survival always seems unlikely.
He explains that originally the main objective was a subversive kind of fun—trolling aimed at the establishment.
"We will resolutely confront aggressive threats and subversive activities," King Salman said on Twitter as the summit began.
Pop-punk showed another way—and of the class of '21970, the most subversive band was the Undertones.
The subversive nature of the culture was attractive, and its ability to shed my youthful preconceptions was welcoming.
It appealed to the girl who isn't the typical fashion girl, who's interested in being a little subversive.
Those tactics have included the direct control of fake social media accounts and manual drafting of subversive messages.
Mapplethorpe captured subversive, alternative subcultures while also shining a spotlight on high society and the cult of celebrity.
The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
In 0003, age 17, Mr. Ivanyi was expelled from school for writing an essay the authorities deemed subversive.
Sex — or Hefner's Pepsi-clean version of it — was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy.
Lim Hyeon-soo, to hard labor for life on charges of carrying out "subversive plots" against North Korea.
But Mr. Berger, the Red Bull's founding artistic director, has staged his "Government Inspector" with a subversive straightforwardness.
Can you think of other art forms that were once subversive and are now part of the mainstream?
Its title was "Two Class Acts," referring to subversive intellectual exploration, theatrical performance and honorable behavior under siege.
In a subversive move, attendees at Def Con will be able to attend its first Voting Machine Village.
Indeed, some scenes remain more subversive than much of the work currently being made by self-styled radicals.
The Chinese Communist Party rightly fears that idea as subversive and threatening to its cultish mind-controlling dictatorship.
Unfortunately, the show isn't actually interested in being as subversive or different as it leads you to believe.
By the time Burr Leonard became a certified instructor in 1990, barre had gone from subversive to staid.
State telecoms regulator POTRAZ said in a statement it would arrest people sending "subversive" messages that cause unrest.
A bust of King at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, may have been the most subversive.
It's bracing to experience this reverse and sometimes subversive angle on the great good cause of our time.
To put it bluntly, the covers of mainstream American magazines are not where you will find subversive photography.
Say whatever you want about the pictures Greenberg produced; whether you like them or not, aren't they subversive?
Mass Effect 23's ending is bold, subversive, interesting—and often called the worst video game ending ever.
Reclaiming this imagery and using it in fine art gallery setting is in of itself a subversive gesture.
Back then, skateboarding had some mainstream appeal but it was largely subversive and misunderstood by most non-skaters.
Snowden praised Stone's finished product — but he also is clearly a fan of the director's subversive body of work.
Motherboard stories should be human, subversive, fun, raw, welcoming, and perhaps even a bit sketchy, but above all smart.
Yes, recreational cannabis is legal in California, but I'd convinced myself I was somehow being subversive with this ruse.
" The New York Times said the trilogy "may well hold the most subversive message in children's literature in years.
He's the boy that publicly prides himself on his knowledge of critical theory, radical politics and all things subversive.
The choice to hang a work in public reminding neighbors of some unpleasant history is slyly subversive, but abrasive.
However, like most "subversive" games, these themes apply to the story and characters and not the game design itself.
In short, Mr Hislop and Tom Hockenhull, his co-curator, scoured the British Museum's collection to find things subversive.
In the 1980s he was marked out as "subversive" for his earlier campus activism as a student at Oxford.
Feature After disappearing for nearly three decades, Paul Reubens's subversive alter ego returns — and seems more radical than ever.
Vasudevan shares with The Creators Project the technical side of mining troves of data to form her subversive art.
For a religion that was once subversive, Jones hints, being countercultural may just be the ideal way to be.
Simply stated, it is the subversive use of computers and computer networks to promote a political or social agenda.
But the court wasn't willing to hear that, and forced the subversive Kwon to lay out his political beliefs.
Subversive Capital​, a cannabis investor financed by the Peter Thiel-backed Privateer Holdings, also committed capital to the round.
"Genero has had a pretty big impact," said Jen Pearson, who also books shows with Vancouver techno collective Subversive.
Animaniacs was able to be subversive in a way that its toy-driven competitors could not afford to be.
Garry Shandling's sly, subversive wit and meta take on the vagaries of showbiz truly made him a comic's comic.
"I loved how subversive [that moment] was, and how it's [playing with] conventional norms around feminine beauty," Gurira continues.
Throughout his work, there is a unique and gleefully subversive celebration of qualities oft-maligned: sloth, sensitivity, even servility.
Proponents of the law said that the restrictions helped prevent "subversive acts" from activist groups, according to the Register.
She continues to blog, and she has found ways to pursue a similar subversive mission in the new medium.
This creates an interesting frisson within an exhibition that is both masterly and radical, traditional in feel yet subversive.
The government, which denied cutting service, warned that people using social media to spread "subversive" messages would be arrested.
Publishing even a soft-core sex magazine was a subversive act in the gray-flanneled world of the 1950s.
As a result, an old-fashioned Pee-wee flick can't help feeling quaint by comparison, subversive edge or not.
What makes Lorena's story so captivating—and why we are still talking about it today—is its subversive nature.
McGrath calls it "alien-gelic" — a cool, subversive take on a strobe that is less shimmery and more dewy.
That support is the bright spot in a tale of "subversion" that was more gross and sad than subversive.
Most importantly, though, he believes this subversive culture he is cultivating will also help evangelize the alt-right cause.
You've used street art techniques yourself in subversive ways though—as with your more recent work Liberté Égalité Soldes.
Smart, clever, funny, and subversive, no other game in 2016 had me uttering "holy shit" as much as SUPERHOT.
And there's something a bit subversive in using a computer, the hub of our digital distraction, for this solace.
But the Kenya Film Classification Board, which banned the movie in April, said it still considered "Rafiki" morally subversive.
That to me was very subversive, to get on TV, to get on MTV and in the mainstream media.
China's censors are notoriously sensitive not just to subversive political content, but also references to sex, drugs and religion.
By my lights, Frozen 2 is still a plenty enjoyable film, even if it lacks its predecessor's subversive spark.
He presents us with a subversive, primal being who does not care about being judged or seen as weird.
The government considered fax machines subversive; they took a boat trip to Thailand to communicate with the outside world.
Ruff's digital composites are politically subversive — and, at their best, disruptive of the entire technical process of image sharing.
Kushner's portrait of Romy's anarchic, near-orphaned childhood in San Francisco is a great, subversive portrait of the city.
Her goal is to gain a larger audience for the younger artists she cultivates without diluting their subversive charisma.
It has been said that things are subversive when they do not correspond to discipline or the social order.
His pictures, only four in all, anarchic and tender, subversive and romantic, had not yet been seen by me.
After 10 seasons — the longest run on Cartoon Network — this subversive show wraps up with a one-hour finale.
The dictionary project was now judged subversive, and many of those who worked on it were arrested and shot.
During the era of post-painterly abstraction, just the fact that it was a word — any word — was subversive.
Now it appears China's censors may have their sights on another cuddly cartoon character turned subversive symbol: Peppa Pig.
Betsey Johnson first rose to prominence in the 1960s due to her more subversive, out-of-the-box designs.
So is the sudden, subversive techno-layering of voices, so you're not sure where the sound is coming from.
Pay attention to how you react to impending power struggles on Monday when the Sun squares against subversive Pluto.
Like the best subversive games, it forces us to really consider the things we've probably been conditioned to ignore.
"Groundhog Day" would not be nearly as effective at its subversive karmic lesson if it weren't so genuinely hilarious.
For all its sweep and noble intentions, "Music: A Subversive History" has a limited conception of what constitutes subversion.
The movie represents the opening of a new chapter in Jennifer Lopez's career, and that's why it's so subversive.
Rumi the Aleppo-trained imam, whose sermons beguiled both the orthodox and the subversive of the medieval Islamic world.
Russia said there had been "subversive policies" and interventions in Nicaragua over a long period by the United States.
When I asked Blackmore how the group reconciles their subversive tradition with endorsing a feature film, she nodded knowingly.
But there has never been a Super Bowl performance this subversive, militant, or flagrant in its assertion of blackness.
"Kevin's antics will touch the budding subversive in every kid," as the Washington Post promised in its official review.
At that time it was really subversive and shocking to take CAH and twist language around and break language.
It's the sort of subversive flavor that makes one rethink what they know about ice cream as a whole.
If Bioware still wants Mass Effect to explore what choices mean, it's not enough to include a subversive ending.
So mocking someone that self-important, and the people he's surrounding himself with, is necessary and subversive and satisfying.
Or screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, whose very first screenplay — for Secretary — is a fine and subversive bit of adaptation?
Fake-news hucksters, political Newspeakers, subversive reality-hackers, trickle-down deconstructionists–they're clogging the Internet with a miasma of disinformation.
It earned a massive amount of its initial buzz because it announced itself as a subversive, smart, fun horror film.
Perhaps a part of me felt subversive pairing provocative images with entirely unsexy passages recounting hospital admissions and calcium tablets.
The second issue was influenced by the 70s, in particular the book Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel.
It's still funny, referential, and subversive, but we're talking about a game that might take you eight hours to beat.
Sex play that's outside the norm can make us feel like we're doing something subversive and getting away with it.
Many composers were themselves black or gay, she observes, and used subversive lyrics to fight prejudice, not to entrench it.
It also makes Disney Channel content scan as much more subversive than I would have given it credit for before.
Suddenly, this cute, quirky show announced itself as a subversive mindfuck that successfully fooled the vast majority of its audience.
It changed the world starting 2,000 years ago, and it is as subversive and counterintuitive today as it was then.
The Pat McGrath Mothership III: Subversive Palette ($125) serves up beautifully pigmented, shimmery hues that are tasteful but still fun.
At every turn, Head Over Heels makes the most subversive choices, queering a classic 16th-century text to delightful effect.
Tommy Koh, another diplomat, urged his countrymen to prize "challengers who are subversive and who have alternate points of view".
Earlier investors include Founders Fund, which led the company's $75 million Series B round in March 2015, and Subversive Capital.
It is a splendid, quietly subversive, gesture by Mr Roth; a rich university would have paid handsomely for his books.
Chinese leaders promote internet use for business and education but try to block access to material deemed subversive or obscene.
"Even 27 years on, remembering Tiananmen is considered subversive by the authorities," said William Nee, China Researcher at Amnesty International.
As for his campy and subversive observations, he gets away with it all without a wince from Scholastic, his publisher.
It's quick moving, subversive, and speaks to Motherboard's mission to ensure technology is working for the people who use it.
You said the most subversive thing in Last Jedi was Johnson getting to put his personal stamp on the property.
That's what makes this lovely and painful novel subversive—and what makes efforts to ban it all the more misguided.
But in one respect, the ad was so effective that it forced Google to intervene and block the subversive prompt.
" Google celebrates anarchy as part of its edge, and in Facebook's early days, the "spirit of subversive hackery guided everything.
The celebration often seems playfully subversive: "We swiped right" pokes fun at the earnest "she said yes!" engagement announcement refrain.
" About the gunman: "He had a minor police record and no association with any subversive or terrorist group, Demings said.
Ever since Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid's Tale in 1985, it's been consistently heralded as both subversive and painfully relevant.
Erdogan says the action is necessary to root out subversive elements loyal to Gulen and to maintian stability in Turkey.
Women continued to shine in transgressive and subversive short films which played the 32nd edition of the festival this year.
She added that she pushes back against the industry's prepackaged image of her in small ways (like posting subversive Instagrams).
Richard Lyons, a founding member of the subversive media-hacking, collage-minded band Negativland, died on April 22 in Seattle.
It is changing the way people think, he says, and enhancing a subversive streak apparent everywhere among Chinese young people.
Keep your cutesy symbol of cisnormative, white normative, made-a-supposedly-subversive-joke-about-sexual-assault accessories off her head.
If there is something surprising, and somewhat subversive, about Girardi, it is that his favorite band is the Rolling Stones.
Not only is it nearly impossible to fire poor performers, but even subversive employees were hard to get rid of.
This meant that the innocent business of studying the Bible could be turned to the subversive aim of acquiring literacy.
With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in Quality Time expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning.
These malevolent actors continuously create manipulative content and shower the internet's leading platforms with their subversive falsehoods around the clock.
In a future where everything is surveilled by computer vision algorithms, even the patterns on our clothing can be subversive.
There were literary readings almost every night, and subversive theater that lampooned the system, using metaphors from baseball to Moliere.
There are hoaxes designed to insinuate a subversive message through a benign-seeming work, a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing text.
There was a subversive quality to his work and she knew she had to somehow be a part of it.
Even though the format is six-four-two-one, in that way, that in my own small way is subversive.
But those books, for all their soft-core covers and happily-ever-afters, were quietly and not-so-quietly subversive.
People are afraid to carry the flag or sing the national anthem for fear of being viewed as a subversive.
The report also criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey over his treatment of journalists whom his government considers subversive.
The East German secret police are after Yanek's son, who has been spreading subversive flyers speaking against the Communist government.
In 1963, Hoover led a campaign to take down Martin Luther King Jr., whom he saw as a dangerous subversive.
I was prepared to find this puzzle unpleasant, but I have to admit that the subversive in me loved it.
"When We Were Orphans" (2000), about an Englishman who grew up in China, has subversive elements of the detective novel.
And when it comes to knowing the difference between subversive and violent intentions, the stakes may be higher than ever.
An article on Tuesday about subversive politics in Super Bowl XIV misstated the location of the Super Bowl in 2016.
Do you think it is important for drag to remain subversive, or is it better for it to become mainstream?
Listening to people describe their sex lives often feels nominally subversive but ultimately boring: There's nothing inherently interesting about sex.
Abboud suppressed free speech by banning many independent newspapers, but Women's Voice lived on, making its presence even more subversive.
Since Genet's movie was often viewed as samizdat, there was an unusual carry-over of subversive feeling in my viewing.
These series have the opportunity to tell subversive, gripping stories that wouldn't necessarily find funding or promotional support in theaters.
Jojo Rabbit could use more of that dynamic, and more of Waititi's subversive voice and willingness to upend cinematic norms.
During parties, Manning was a subversive photo bomber, stuffing his mouth with a brownie and then flashing a muddy grin.
So far, the men's wear shows in London, Milan and Paris have featured craft-inspired pieces, berets — and subversive suits.
But two decades after his death, Blanchon's work is still subversive and witty, and still charged with radical queer eroticism.
The anonymous artist, known for their satirical and subversive graffiti, gave the residents of Bristol, England, a Valentine's day installation.
But this N.W.A. alum still has a rich catalog of songs that were once considered subversive but are now classic.
Wanting to utilize social media and the female form in a subversive way, artist and game developer A.M. Darke, a.k.a.
The show pushed boundaries of subversive drag, complete with fire, fake blood, and performances that were more political than pretty.
What followed was a series of exhibitions that, depending whom you ask, were either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
Thus far, activist game designs follow a variant of one or more of the following six plans of attack: 1: The Story: Most examples so far of games with subversive intent only go so far as to write subversive content, giving the player a way to play-act their resistance rather than exercise it.
That's exactly right, and I worry that when we're always being watched we cease to feel comfortable thinking subversive, original thoughts.
Big River, Big Sea 1949 — Title of a 2009 book published in Taiwan that's seen as subversive by the Chinese government.
Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it.
But according to Reuters, they were taken offline when users began posting screenshots alleging subversive interactions they'd had with the bots.
It's pretty subversive that you're approaching it this way, because black metal itself can be such a white, backward-facing genre.
Using the aesthetics of abundance, Ai continues his interest in politicizing everyday objects that he encodes with new, sometimes subversive meanings.
Beyond its subtly subversive storytelling elements, KHNH is also unique due to the role that New York plays in the movie.
In the 1990s, Canadian businessman Maurice Strong, active in environmental efforts at the U.N., was often fingered as a Canadian subversive.
It's their politics: They hold minority views on America's relationship with Israel — ones that have long been considered subversive and taboo.
News of the DHS list reminded her of COINTELPRO, the program that Hoover ran at the FBI targeting groups deemed subversive.
Even though 2016 was a big year for genre properties, Deadpool felt more like a subversive comedy than a superhero movie.
"[It's] more subversive that way," Crose said, explaining why she wants to do a printed zine rather than an online one.
But there was something clearly subversive, in my mind anyway, about Beyoncé wearing braids in some of the world's whitest cities.
"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," the document states.
When it does, it is absolutely satisfying, wrapping the many pieces together in a way that's horrifying, subversive, and legitimately emotional.
On Monday, the world's largest strip club — Sapphire Gentleman's Club — became something else: The most subversive art show in Las Vegas.
Mr. Cruz has also employed more subversive strategies to get out the vote, and has even raised eyebrows among state officials.
From the start, the choice of a female actor gives a prelude to the type of subversive investigation Safoglu will explore.
But the crowd favorite — and the favorite of at least one of the seven judges — was also the most blatantly subversive.
"Using contraception can be subversive for women," said Lester Coutinho, the family planning deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He is no longer forbidden; instead the authorities are on the lookout for anything that might expose citizens to subversive politics.
And of course, they are used to rip parts of films, overlaid with subversive new typography or edits to shift meaning.
It's a sweetly subversive comedy about coming out and coming-of-age, and learning that your sexuality doesn't fully define you.
I'm not saying tech is now a bastion of conservatism; just that it's less quietly subversive than it used to be.
Camp humor is often a subtly subversive political tool; as a drag icon to millions, Bob the Drag Queen would know.
Buffy's manpain is subversive not only because she's a female character, but because of the specific female archetype that she represents.
Gaga's near-perfect halftime performance — featuring everything from subversive political statements to inadvertent Spongebob Squarepants references —  blew the internet's collective mind.
From her jagged, minimalist guitar playing to her thrilling, subversive poses on album covers, she was a creature all her own.
"I think it's hard to predict, when you make subversive choices, what kind of impact they're going to have," Joe mused.
" The Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke criticized Beyoncé's decision to pay homage to what he called a "subversive hate group.
Erdoğan has launched a massive crackdown on suspected political opponents and subversive operatives in the wake of the July 15 event.
He barges into her workplace and social events, becoming a classic trickster, that mischievous, subversive figure who upends the status quo.
In a recent interview with E. Alex Jung of New York magazine, RuPaul laid out the subversive function of his show.
This subtly subversive novel examines the pang of childlessness experienced by Kali and Ponna, a couple living in rural southern India.
So it's pretty disheartening to see the series rewriting this complicated, subversive storyline into a conventional tale of prophesies and destiny.
This invokes a popular theory of avant-gardism, that of troublemaking art that conceals subversive purposes under cover of appealing aesthetics.
But the government also tried to suppress wuxia, a martial arts genre of literature and film, as superstitious and potentially subversive.
A subversive text in the background of random porn is a classic artifact for Chu to worship or criticize or both.
To run wild under the banner of Appel is to ask how art is complicit or subversive in its social context.
The imagery gives the book an uncanny quality, while the matter-of-factness of Wray's vision conveys dark, almost subversive, humor.
Actually, it wasn't until we reread many of these books as adults that we noticed their more subversive themes and elements.
In fact, by staying in an LTR in your twenties, you're doing just about the most subversive thing you could do.
They're both forms of escapism that feature universally innocent acts shot through with the thrill of subversive temptation, of danger even.
By Design How is it that the brilliantly subversive work of Trix and Robert Haussmann is virtually unknown in the U.S.?
You can impart so much more smart, subversive humor when people are actually listening to you and not on the defense.
But if projects are all we value, our lives become self-subversive, aimed at extinguishing the sources of meaning within them.
At Alexander Gray, Harmony Hammond's prescient Weave paintings of the mid-1970s add a subversive domestic twist to the modernist monochrome.
His treatment of the folktale as literature—innovative, even subversive at the time—puts him in company with Yeats, Stevenson, Poe.
His refusal to comply interfered with the committee's ability to fulfill its constitutional duties and was, therefore, subversive of constitutional government.
But it makes sense those battles erupt at the end of Reagan's presidency, with these more subversive movies showing up. Yeah.
She is no longer the young law professor researching bankruptcy cheats, or the freshman debater who called her Democratic friend subversive.
But there is nothing ordinary about the subversive Berlin-based fashion collective GmbH, lead by Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Isik.
But while her body of work is sweepingly subversive, Reaves remains fascinated by the materiality and perceived purpose behind each piece.
The only hint of Schnack's subversive spirit is the window frames, painted a dark violet Farrow & Ball shade called Bible Black.
His photographs, enlivened by friends, subversive wit and a hip-hop swagger, are on show in a major retrospective in Paris.
But the animals have long been celebrated across this country for their loyalty and clown-like temperament, and as subversive symbols.
The original was a subversive take on superheroes at a time when they were mostly limited to comic books and cartoons.
And it establishes Anne as, of all things, subversive, at least when measured against other teenagers on television and in film.
The Cold War narrative ignores this new reality because it tends to see any subversive activity as the work of states.
Most interestingly, it doesn't just rehash the story of the Holy Land we already know, but imagines a new, subversive ending.
A large part of what makes him so subversive is the way he looks utterly innocent while perpetrating assaults on propriety.
While "Saturday Night Live" was always subversive and groundbreaking, it was also conceived before cable and the internet rewarded niche sensibilities.
Remarkably, the amalgam didn't feel subversive — more an inevitable evolution of a genre that had been stubborn and slow to change.
Such dedication to making the most beautiful thing means perfection can be subversive in the most radical — and sublime — of ways.
Clergymen, politicians and pundits found "The Graduate" subversive, and they denounced it from pulpits to the letters page of The Times.
The images look like they were born as ads, or billboards — which, we learned in the 1970s, contained big, subversive messages.
"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," the document stated.
Isn't lighting a politician from below, to make him look menacing — and not at all palatable to a magazine's readership — subversive?
" Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 91% What critics said: "The second season of Amazon's subversive screwball comedy The Marvelous Mrs.
"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," said the document.
It feels more vivid and subversive, with simple enough feuds to follow, and the right mix of aggressive and passive players.
And I want to focus more on that, more on moving this kind of subversive email community that doesn't have a name.
Absolutely not, says Todd Rose in a subversive and readable introduction to what has been called the new science of the individual.
Then, with an astonished lurch, you notice sly, subversive genius Banksy has stencilled Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald either side of her.Wham!
"It carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic and nihilistic," he says around halfway through the clip above.
Even just doing your own thing and putting it into the world, and providing for yourself is inherently subversive in some way.
Here was the First Amendment Randazza — and other liberals — wanted to protect: a law that safeguarded subversive speech from powerful moralistic assholes.
Yet in 2018, there is no act more subversive than giving yourself over to an unabashedly sincere ode to common human goodness.
Key and Peele, who are generally known for their sly, subversive humor, made some lame oral-sex jokes during the MTV VMAs.
It was a bit too subversive for them, and we basically browbeat them into it by making the film predominantly in Vancouver.
It's time for this country to retire their binary oppressive Flintstones couples costumes and replace them with far more subversive thruples costumes.
The leaflets warn residents not to disrupt public order or undertake "subversive" activities, which carry punishments including death or life in prison.
And although the rising numbers of subversive films are encouraging, the social consequences of their release fall disproportionately on the women involved.
Not only is WICCA a clear example of girls sticking up for girls, but it's a subversive take on women and witchcraft.
Though for the most part a visually lush and colorfully attractive show, there's something slightly subversive about František Kupka: Pioneer of Abstraction.
We're sure Donald Trump is confident that he has the vote of his wife Melania, noted Michelle Obama fan and subversive dresser.
Her subversive SEO works so well because "the internet can't tell the difference between what is and what's hoped for," she said.
Two other American citizens, Otto Warmbier and Kim Dong-chul, were sentenced to prison for what North Korea described as subversive acts.
The eight-episode series, expected to premiere in 2018, will explore the "subversive, funny, obsessive relationship" that develops between Eve and Villanelle.
When We protagonist D-503 experiences jealousy, it's subversive because it implies that he no longer considers all citizens identical and interchangeable.
Facial and body piercings, ear gauging, dental grills and tribal ink were once the province of so-called deviant or subversive subcultures.
Conduct that reinforces that interference may be sufficiently subversive to rise to the level of an impeachable offense, even if not criminal.
African nations such as Ethiopia and Eritrea similarly control access and punish citizens and journalists for sharing information that is deemed subversive.
Although he affirmed Miss Stahl's dismissal, Justice Church contended there was evidence of subversive forces at work within the Department of Welfare.
Despite its origin as something subversive, a way for kids to put their own identity on language, it is now intensely popular.
But while reading their respectful account, I began to wonder if Day's religious conservatism might also, perhaps unconsciously, have been politically subversive.
But the women behind Twig — avid crafters whose first business venture involved "subversive greeting cards" — elevate the hobby to a meditative art.
"This is a profoundly, intensely, extravagantly personal film," wrote A. O. Scott in his review of Paul Thomas Anderson's surprisingly subversive drama.
Most are just generic placeholders, but a few are strikingly brutal exploiters, none more so than V. A. Vandevere, a subversive invention.
THURSDAY PUZZLE — I am a subversive from way back, despite my outward appearance, so I love any reason to break the rules.
He wore jeans to his lectures and occasionally smoked cigarettes in class while imparting his love of subversive literature to his students.
Observing the quiet, subversive supremacy is hard when it's been both natural and convenient for you during the span of your lifetime.
I don't want to be 20," said one member of this subversive cadre of women over 60, "but I'm really freaking cool.
Purporting to be an "adaptation of a recently discovered, never released YA novel by Mike Pence," Gay Future is a subversive snack.
NotPetya created significant downtime and a whopping $10 billion in damages, but its most subversive impact was how it deceived the public.
It's these subversive episodes—as well as the murderous series finale, because how else could you end Dinosaurs if not with extinction?
Shows like this aren't fluff — they're subversive, self-aware and capable of depicting the complexities of women of color in nuanced ways.
The show seemed simultaneously subversive, brainy and silly, though its creators tended to play down how much deep thought went into it.
She has always defended the fantastic, by which she means not formulaic fantasy or "McMagic" but the imagination as a subversive force.
To that end, Subversive Real Estate Acquisition REIT LP raised $225 million through a public offering in January on Toronto's NEO Exchange.
"There's something subversive about 'The Simpsons,' but there's a lot of love in the spirit of the show," Roush told CNN Business.
To be clear, it continues to be subversive that Elsa is a character defined entirely by her lack of a love interest.
The Save the Martians protesters were arrested as rioters and alien sympathizers, but other subversive peace groups were said to be forming.
Of the many classic characters the SNL vet brought back to the show's stage, none were funnier or more subversive than Gumby.
Disinformation peddlers are deploying new, more subversive techniques and American operatives have adopted some of the deceptive tactics Russians tapped in 2016.
"I always need something that irritates the eye," Gustav says, though irritation is not quite right: The result is more quietly subversive.
Nickelodeon's princess may strike some adults as subversive, particularly given the surge of conservatism that helped push Donald J. Trump into office.
That Fini kept the subversive fires burning for as long as she did turns out to be the most surprising revelation here.
The tensions are slight; the most subversive notion is Jin-woo and Kyung-ah's May-December-ish bond, with Kyung-ah the older.
Not that two female characters obsessed with each other must necessarily be gay, but the implicit possibility gives White Nights a subversive edge.
On the twentieth anniversary of the subversive teen movie, star and author of Brave, Rose McGowan, remembers the making of a cult classic.
It's move to Netflix, a private media company with world domination on its mind, gives Black Mirror an extra hint of subversive mischief.
After the photo shoot, Neak stained the colors of the flowers directly onto the print, in a subversive reference to the Khmer proverb.
Just in time for the subversive hacker drama to return to USA, you can binge Season 1 free with an Amazon Prime subscription.
All of a sudden, the same decentralized record-keeping properties that make the blockchain subversive also make it a surveillance platform without equal.
The subversive handiwork was instigated by artist Kathrin Böhm, together with Harry Blackett and Robin Kirkham from graphic design studio An Endless Supply.
But the pontianak also embodies a subversive female energy that is increasingly being embraced by a new wave of writers and film-makers.
The subversive, secretive nature of sex and porn keeps us from having open, honest, and healthy discourse, and it's time to change that.
Attacking the Hong Kong publishers, from Xi's point of view, may be a way of preventing subversive ideas from spreading into mainland China.
Something innately forward about these prints makes them subversive, and few who passed by the young gallery's booth could resist getting up close.
Traditionally, it's a ritzy, buzzy affair, but with tensions rising between the press and an increasingly hectic White House, it's become more subversive.
Though those episodes might be, as Michael Jackson says, "ignant" (+16433), Parker and Stone still "reached these keeds" (+16423) with their subversive show.
He also helped draft the martial law that kept Park in power—and that allowed him to monitor artists and ban subversive works.
But because of his associations with some other Polish directors whom the government deemed subversive, Kieslowski's early features were sometimes censored and recut.
The list continues: Kendra Adams —a "strong trans women," according to her friends, whose subversive drag performances subverted stereotypes—was killed in June.
More than any performer since Freddie Mercury, Prince embraced and united the subversive, queer aesthetics of glam performance culture with historical rock roots.
The internet is a very effective medium for groups with any sort of agenda—subversive or not—to target and groom susceptible audiences.
Even hooded Offred of The Handmaid's Tale is too caged to fight the proverbial and literal man with anything but quietly subversive acts.
The video for "Happy" is anything but, but it's also a refreshingly clever and subversive piece of feminist filmmaking that rewards multiple viewings.
Here, our hero Winston has been taken into custody by the Thought Police, all his subversive thoughts and ideas found out at last.
But she uses a coquettish tone when she talks about The Golden One — a strategy that is as subversive as it is effective.
She explores the histories, symbols, spaces, economies and lived experiences that bind contemporary Britain to its past – an ongoing and subversive 'family album.
For a series that is so thematically subversive and creatively risky, there's little pleasure in attributing that to the program's creator, Sam Esmail.
"I called him deceptive on the questions concerning drugs, theft and affiliation with gangs, terrorist organizations or subversive groups," McCarty wrote to Warner.
Photo: GettyIn the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook's potential to be a subversive political tool has been all too clear.
But at least that event was bone-crunchingly exciting, and its half-time show intriguingly subversive (Beyoncé appeared in a Black Panther outfit).
She's been dubbed a "subversive" figure associated with the gangster lifestyle of young Chinese adults, and banned from a social media platform there.
When even icy style guru Anna Wintour is among the insiders clamoring to make a self-parodying appearance, the subversive edge gets blunted.
Thiel believes the medium's subversive and democratizing potential, as it applies to public art and historical narratives, is the crux of its power.
Since parting ways with Sony, her output has become more prolific and subversive than it was allowed to be a few years prior.
Influenced too by Dadaism, an artistic movement which emerged during the first world war, Paik embarked on a similarly subversive series of performances.
Modern-day Tumblr artists have entirely revived the long-dormant tradition of professional-quality fanzines, many featuring subversive queer content and explicit content.
For Watkins, Flip The Script's subversive portrait felt immediately familiar — a hauntingly relatable look at anyone who's struggled to make her voice heard.
Calling himself a subversive trick photographer, the artist takes hundreds of photos on a tripod in a single spot over about an hour.
Over the years, I plucked many such signifiers from the world of casual, lightly subversive men's wear and planted them in my outfits.
Ms. Zink's voice is naturally satirical and subversive; she can't help seeing that her characters are comic and sublime at the same time.
I've had the joy of working with queer customers, and most of those experiences have been powerfully subversive in a (seemingly) heteronormative space.
Not nearly as fun as Resident Evil, nowhere near as subversive as Silent Hill, not even as spooky as Alone in the Dark.
Once subversive comedians grow crotchety and rail against the younger generation's "PC culture" any time someone dares to challenge their own status quo.
Her characters are far from the status quo of eroticized women crafted to appeal to hegemonic male desire: They're subversive, experimental, and queer.
But while she may represent a subversive response to 80s slasher flicks, the original Buffy Summers doesn't diverge much from popular sexist stereotypes.
But as the springs on this cliche wear down, directors have had to get more and more subversive, creative, and shocking with it.
OVERVIEW MOTHERBOARD is looking for an internet editor to help us develop coverage that is unique, skeptical, global, human, and a little subversive.
"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," read the congressionally-mandated document.
While the transgressiveness of Mr. Packard's work is genuine, and recalls old-school subversive cinema, there's a hermetic quality to it as well.
Something like Carmageddon has a loose enough premise that I'd love to see someone else come in and try something weird and subversive.
The new collection showed how Chinese officials asserted the view that China was threatened by subversive forces from abroad, particularly the United States.
Myles employs a radical and subversive use of fact — loss made fact, queerness made fact, a trans body made fact, loneliness made fact.
It's not the cheeky, subversive gaze that they turn on the Australian men's rubgy team: This is the familiar, objectifying gaze of whiteness.
This is the delightfully subversive premise of "The Boys", an Amazon series based on the comic books by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
"Donald John Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government," the proposed resolution says.
Like Frida Kahlo, Bert of "Sesame Street" and George Harrison before them, a new generation is embracing the subversive charm of the unibrow.
That approach might allow for recognition of movies made by subversive or politically troublesome filmmakers that won't be submitted by their own country.
Beyond this, of course, it's a shrewdly subversive move to tell this immigrant story via a tale so central to the Western canon.
And our reporter in Moscow took a critical look at a Kremlin-controlled think tank that critics accuse of spreading subversive propaganda overseas.
I am most passionate about my subversive projects that are 'designed for impact' — much of this work is research based and concept driven.
"And we thought if we named them Reginald Heber Smith — a nice Brahmin name — nobody would ever think that they were subversive infiltrators."
Confessional and subversive, the song gracefully captures that tender line between self-inflation and self-sabotage, giving the enigmatic lyrics many possible interpretations.
A high-modernist, Promethean vocabulary — by now its own kind of consensus — is her touchstone of praise: the unsettling, the rebellious, the subversive.
" The gallery states that the work is meant to "provoke an examination of one's own insecurities, thus turning them into subversive 'thinking sculptures.
After all, Islamism, like good art, is innately subversive; it captures diffuse feelings of alienation in a way that is difficult to fabricate.
" The bill's sponsor in the Senate said the intent was to stop "extremist vegans" committing "subversive acts" that might "bring down the industry.
Some, he said, felt trapped between what they imagined was a global cabal of Jewish bankers and an influx of subversive Jewish refugees.
And some health care stuff and certainly there's some other things, but I think a lot of these things are subversive. Haircuts. Yeah.
" The Tory grass roots, Mr. Moore said, are enraged by left-wing sanctimony, and "long for something that is more subversive and different.
After Exit Art closed in 22018, following Ingberman's passing, Colo continued to develop his own practice, subversive and powerful in its own right.
It's also an incredibly subversive movie that features a final girl who does whatever it takes to save herself, even if that means damnation.
Ultimately, Hathaway and Wilson's real-life fight to ensure the film's R-rating strikes a more subversive stance than anything we see on screen.
Dark Humor: African American Art from the University Museums, University of Delaware presents works that employ subversive humor to question cultural and racial stereotypes.
"I'd say that rather than making the office feminine, we made it masculine with subversive intrusions such as hair," Marcin tells The Creators Project.
I think it's cool if it happens, but to put the onus on people to constantly be subversive or revolutionary can be really exhausting.
That her story, in particular, nevertheless manages to hit the aspirational sweet spot that this summer's movies have not speaks to its subversive streak.
For all the shock value of the trippy movie, Antibirth's most subversive move is to knock pregnancy off its pedestal of sentimentality and romanticism.
Feature "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" — the subversive series that just won the actor a Golden Globe — somehow manages to set women's uncomfortable truths to music.
"The internet is a lot less interesting these days, and sites on The Useless Web are fighting against that by being simple and subversive."
The move split sports fans and the broader American public: an American sports champion rejecting his birth name and adopting one that sounded subversive.
Brothers are often less puritanical in Islamic practices than salafists but, because they permit rebellion against impious rulers, they are regarded as more subversive.
Trevorrow's mildly subversive take worked for audiences, and the film grossed more than $1.67 billion worldwide, making it one of 2015's biggest successes.
China's government has a history of cracking down on protests and performance art that it deems subversive, and feminist activists have not been immune.
A former federal police officer, Sandoval is accused of committing crimes at a secret prison where he was a specialist in fighting "subversive elements".
All that dripping honey in the lyric video is certainly ladden with meaning, as are the subversive double entendres that make up the song.
" – James Madison , Federalist No. 48 TIME OUT: WORDS ARE HARD Atlantic: "In 1961, what newly published book was denounced as 'subversive and intolerably offensive'?
Previous investors have included the Founders Fund — the firm headed by Peter Thiel — as well as Subversive Capital, Three Trees Ventures and Been There.
What we know about the suspect Police described Neumann as a disgruntled former employee acting alone with no ties to terror or subversive groups.
Snoop Dogg, clearly the voice of the people, made an extremely subversive statement by smoking up a blunt in front of the White House.
It's playful, and playfully subversive — after all, the song is essentially an unrequited love letter from LeFou to his muscle-daddy man crush Gaston.
Police must also "strike back against all kinds of infiltration and subversive activities by hostile foreign forces", he told the ministry's annual national meeting.
While wildly creative and refreshingly subversive, I can't really say that Swiss Army Man as a whole works, or even if I liked it.
Those fears grew in March when Pakistan arrested a man it said was a RAW spy in Baluchistan, and accused him of "subversive activities".
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an open world video game set on the American frontier with an almost subversive dedication to detail and realism.
While much gossip is rooted in apolitical personal viciousness and voyeurism, there is also a tradition of subversive scuttlebutt used to undermine political legitimacy.
Her husband and father view her vegetarianism as a subversive act, while her brother-in-law becomes sexually fixated with her plant-shaped birthmark.
Towering above Victoria Harbor, the glowing white digits blinked against the night sky: 979,012,493… 979,012,492… 20143,012,491… The seemingly innocuous numbers contained a subversive statement.
"You didn't hear many tunes written by women nearly a hundred years ago, much less ones with these kinds of subversive themes," Bougerol says.
The summits produced calls for Iran to abandon its subversive policies against Arab countries and back away from its drive to dominate the region.
Like that subversive charmer, "Tumacho" plays dizzily with historical notions of American manliness (just pronounce its name), but in a more willfully absurdist key.
Snyder is of the belief that North Korea's behavior, albeit subversive to the existing world order and destabilizing to the surrounding region, is logical.
His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex than Standard English.
Her vocal chords vibrate with ill will and secrets, lending Eye of Nix a certain operatic touch by way of grandiose, subversive 80s goth.
If you're a nonpartisan civil servant, you're either an arrogant unelected bureaucrat or a foreign-born subversive with questionable loyalty to your adopted country.
The message of Charlie's Angels probably seems subversive to the suits who ponied up the tens of millions of dollars to make this movie.
The committee revealed details of the F.B.I.'s secret Cointelpro, or counterintelligence, operation, which included illegal sabotage of dissident groups deemed to be subversive.
But the subversive tale of self-reinvention and the feel-good re-creation of a vanished, simpler era turn out to be mirror images.
Forty years ago, the Comme des Garçons designer began creating subversive, gender-bending clothes for men at a time when no one else was.
Goichi Suda, or "Suda51," is an iconoclast video game auteur whose studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, has built a cult following with subversive and outrageous titles.
East German authorities, by overreacting, had turned the gathering of concert listeners — people who just wanted to hear music — into a subversive political act.
Mixing nature and culture, wood from the urban wild and "civilized" furniture, the object is arresting and disturbing, a brilliantly simple and subversive gesture.
The erotic, subversive performance art that Lebel often chose to showcase illustrates the tension in his work between Dionysian creativity and critical political activism.
Ms. Fendi, like Ms. Prada, engages our times from an ironic position, if not always with quite Ms. Prada's naturally subversive cast of mind.
My son almost jumped from his seat to join in, though he doesn't understand how subversive it is to poke fun at male saviors.
Twilight has fallen on the venerable American trickster, who in our Trumpian afterworld of alternative facts has come to seem more sordid than subversive.
But what's most subversive about the work in New York, where Mr. Ji lives part time, is that it never quite picks a side.
One, authorized by the State Legislature in 21969, barred the school system from employing anyone who belonged to what was deemed a subversive organization.
"But the Westerners behind it gradually turned Instagram into a mischievous tool for dangerous subversive actions against the state or pornographic purposes," he said.
They made subversive queer-themed paintings, and their photographs — created in antique styles, with painstaking precision — depicted them as dandies of a bygone era.
Mr. Blaker, a clean comic who steers clear of politics, seems more subversive than secular Jewish comics, even those working with much edgier material.
Simply telling the truth is a subversive act and yes I suppose may in fact serve Putin or our other enemy's short-term interests.
When I received the first text, I was a playful sixth grader, always finding sly ways to be subversive in school and with friends.
The Turner quartet's subversive act will, paradoxically, affirm their own position within the museums, biennials, fairs and institutions that confer artistic prestige and power.
But the language that Mr. Trump deployed on Friday is more typically used by leaders to refer to hostile foreign governments or subversive organizations.
I find that just as subversive of the American character as someone like Trump who denigrates groups of people who he has never met.
"I incorporated activist organizations and projects"—instead of just scholarly texts—"which was a subversive thing to do in an academic bibliography," she said.
Sure, he'll send out a pro-Le Pen tweet, but Trump has mostly switched from being a subversive populist to being a conventional corporatist.
Carry-On Rob Corddry is a comedian, former "Daily Show" correspondent and the creator of "Childrens Hospital," a subversive parody of medical television shows.
In using Russia's subversive tactics against itself, Beijing can claim territory and resources that border China and which it could more effectively develop economically.
But that same year, a C.P.U.S.A. representative in Moscow sent a secret letter warning that Comintern leaders thought the slogan ideologically incorrect and subversive.
Vice began 23 years ago as a punk magazine exploring the subversive counterculture that our writers, our readers and we were a part of.
It is the first piece the artist has exhibited since his 2011 retrospective at the museum and it's as simple as it is subversive.
And of course many modern modes and techniques of subversive propaganda were developed and perfected by British and American authorities in the previous century.
Fake news and misinformation spreads as a result of social media algorithms, and I think that's more significant than the subversive activity of states.
Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as subversive or illegal, but ancient people didn't necessarily see graffiti in this way at all.
"Police came with a warrant of search and seizure they claimed there were certain computers and other subversive materials," MDC lawyer Denford Halimani said.
Almost by their nature, these kinds of highly stylized, editorial photographs, whether taken by Kander, Schoeller, or anyone else, are not subversive at all.
Some of the objects are utilitarian, such as a manual for swan handling; others were subversive, like English annotations on a Latin religious text.
That only leaves us with one option for an ending that is surprising, unexpected, subversive, and still true to the themes of Game of Thrones.
This is the visual metaphor for their music: Sex is the super obvious and most distracting theme, but underneath the twerking, there's something subversive happening.
Like the double-cross, the main crux of a scam, or the plot to "Where the Bag At," City Girls' are after something sneakily subversive.
It's hard to say how much Chaucer agreed with his Wife's subversive arguments, but Bergvall's Alisoun is a profoundly engaging, funny, and deeply sympathetic voice.
"The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings," Bechdel once said in an interview.
But in 2018, there are far fewer people wearing the cross as a subversive act, and many more wearing it as a purely aesthetic one.
Muslim satirists in the region have taken advantage of that fact, and are using the term as part of subversive comedic critiques of the militants.
If none of them seem as resistance-minded as Broodthaers, who was young in a time of revolutions, all share something of his subversive zaniness.
You can't help but snort with laughter (or despair) at the idea of an accessory being dangerously subversive, or sleeve lengths adding to society's ailments.
They were seen as both sexy and subversive — when Marlene Dietrich wore one in the 1932 film Morocco, for instance, she kissed another woman onscreen.
EC published Tales from the Crypt, Mad, and other subversive material that was drawn by the best artists in American comic books at the time.
So while I can't speak to the unique badness of this particular show, I can recommend an excellent alternative: the soapy, subversive Jane the Virgin.
But basic rights to free expression and protest are tightly controlled, and candidates who are seen as too subversive are barred from running for office.
Castro's revolutionary government came to see counterculture bands like the Stones and the Beatles as dangerously subversive and prohibited their music on TV and radio.
You have to be well over 30 to remember a time before its subversive-yet-family-friendly brand of humor changed the sitcom scene forever.
We deserve all the slightly subversive fun we can get, even if it just comes in the form of paint for our face hairs. Inspired?
Banksy's identity has never been revealed, but his subversive murals, sculptures and ironic epigrams have become highly sought after in the establishment world he satirizes.
Their cover of "Sugar, Sugar" is awesome, bubble gum pop fun, and a subversive take on the original since it's usually sung by The Archies.
Now I'm inspired by the technology companies, because they're all done by young people, they all have fresh knowledge, and their ideas are all subversive.
But that's the trick: summer blockbusters may largely be dreck, but there are plenty of other films out there that are satisfying. Inventive. Subversive. Clever.
I told him I'd expected a bit of subversive sparkle, and he shrugged: The suit might be conservative, but the man wearing it wouldn't be.
Their ideas were subversive to a generation that had learned nothing about the dark side of Stalinism or the irreverent style in Western modernist literature.
A small percentage of these Venezuelan migrants appear to be undercover subversive agents embedded by the Maduro regime and his regional and extra-regional allies.
Le Guin has always been fascinated by the subversive possibility of imaginative writing, and the central conceits of her two best-known series explore it.
The British cartoon pig is seen as a subversive "gangster" icon associated with "shehuiren" culture, which refers to people who are poorly educated and unemployed.
In making Mary her narrator, Barrett offers us a fresh and subversive take on a genre traditionally owned by male leviathans like Melville and Hemingway.
In his thesis, Guadagnino described Demme as a quiet subversive, bringing countercultural values and political criticism onto the screen under the burnish of Hollywood fantasy.
Hanoi has in the past accused the U.S. social media giant of violating local laws by allowing subversive comments to be published on its platform.
A technician was cuing up a sample from a song by Laibach, a Slovenian group that fuses totalitarian imagery with pop culture, to subversive effect.
A glimpse of mainstream success came with the critically acclaimed album, "Paper Television," a collection of catchy, quietly subversive synth-and-drum-machine-driven songs.
Class is primed to deliver subversive takes on hoary monster tropes, and it's definitely gesturing toward a cheery kind of upheaval, especially near the end.
The whole point of these stories about the seamy underside of suburbia is subversive social critique — something The Girl on the Train never really musters.
During the final months of her life — she died in the summer of 1943 — Weil wrote of several of her most subversive and seminal texts.
The line between sanctioned and subversive culture has always been porous in Michigan, a border state literally — with multiple entry points to Canada — and figuratively.
"Of course, Chiitan is really cute, but then he or she also does these subversive activities, so that might help with its popularity," she said.
A young woman of independent mind and progressive morals, Olivia looks back on her exciting, subversive youth from the vantage point of her ninth decade.
But those can be remixed or transformed in fun, subversive ways that preserve the real magic linking Halloween to fairy tales and other folk traditions.
In a move typical of his blend of religion and subversive hedonism, the inferno, purgatory and paradise will be the backdrops for the evening's festivities.
SHANGHAI — China's government, which tirelessly suppresses critical voices, unwanted ideologies and subversive memes, has turned its censors against an unlikely target: its own economic policies.
Balding, a self-described libertarian, adopted a variety of Twitter handles referencing targets of Chinese censorship, including "Subversive Peppa Pig Balding" and "Censored John Oliver".
"It was classic Alex Timbers—having fun, singing songs—but every once in a while there would be these super-subversive elements," Lemon-Strauss recalled.
For years, access has remained expensive and tightly controlled, inhibited in part by the government's concerns about the potentially subversive effect of free-flowing information.
Maybe it's because he's livelier and more subversive than the other guys, who include Anna's rich older suitors, Alexei (Martin Jacobs) and Yegor (David Downer).
UNESCO noted the carnival's "slightly subversive atmosphere" when including it in its list of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" in 2010, according to its website.
On Friday, she'll release her debut solo album, "No Home Record," a subversive, post-punk ode to the city that shaped much of Young's output.
Subtly subversive and slightly decadent, fall fashion wove together the best of traditional men's and women's wear to craft a look that defied gender conventions.
"Being subversive and pushing creative boundaries to create business growth is in Burger King's and their CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Fernando Machado's DNA," they said.
His clothes are subversive because they suggest that craft ought not exist in the service of fashion but that fashion should exist to support craft.
Under Communism, with its emphasis on subjugation of the individual to the collective, his ideas about the sovereignty of all humans being were considered subversive.
Yet, there's something that still feels subversive about a woman getting what she's worked hard for, without having to sacrifice her relationship in the process.
This new breed of suits are interesting because they're subversive — often in the runway look they complete, and sometimes in their own cut and finish.
Listening to foreign radio, or watching foreign TV, is illegal and the government regularly carries out raids to make sure people aren't consuming anything subversive.
For weeks, police in downtown Cairo would force passers-by to unlock their phones so officers could check their social-media accounts for subversive content.
His clothes are subversive because they suggest that craft ought not exist in the service of fashion but that fashion should exist to support craft.
Over the past two years, dozens of human rights lawyers have been jailed and accused of conspiring with foreign forces to carry out subversive plots.
The brand used all this subversive imagery: the eight-ball, the "irie vibes," and the ads with yo'd out blond kids styled like black kids.
But in the context of "Apeshit," with its montages of painting after painting of white faces and white statues, "Portrait" feels both shocking and subversive.
Notes on the Culture John Galliano, Clare Waight Keller, Raf Simons and Kim Jones are creating sumptuous, handcrafted men's wear, to marvelous and subversive effect.
For two weeks, we exist as one dysfunctional queer family traversing the American countryside with our subversive glam, our books, our queer narratives and hearts.
North Korea was worried Choco Pies might have a subversive impact, and South Koreans responded by sending balloons carrying the sweet sandwich across the border.
The books reference El Salvador's 1980–1992 Civil War, during which people often buried or burned their books so as not to be deemed subversive.
I guess I was drawn to him because he was subversive, but I liked the fact that he tended to sabotage himself, because I do too.
Whether it's through day-long prayer sessions or rejecting church buildings, Norwich's subversive Christian scene is finding a way to affirm this immovable passion for Christ.
Self-labeled "queer street artists" are increasingly talking back against homophobia and claiming a share of ownership in public space through subversive and explicitly queer imagery.
J.K. Rowling needs to spend less time on Twitter and more time writing subversive literature for the budding satanists who will one day be my children.
" Zevi wrote that Rossi's Casa Del Portuale's "shabby, degraded coastal context […] is animated by a pioneering, spectacular, subversive object, which seems to claim an environmental redemption.
Rannikko's subversive yet informative program is mirrored here by the works of Jani Hänninen, which warn against taking the most dramatic interpretations as the most reliable.
The whole Twitter tirade really seems like an attempt at being a subversive condemnation of the Washington Post, which is owned by Trump enemy Jeff Bezos.
Meanwhile, Wonder Woman was, depending on whom you ask, either propaganda about American exceptionalism or a subversive piece of feminism designed to sabotage tired Hollywood conventions.
"But there are a small number of individuals, very subversive individuals, who do need to be held in separate units," she told BBC radio on Monday.
Rascally rabbits Evil rabbit doodles left in the margins of medieval texts were both a hilarious and subversive blow against the ruling classes of the day.
China said at the time that Liu's award was an "obscenity" that should not have gone to a man it called a criminal and a subversive.
The show's popularity, and the imitations it has spawned, illustrate how subversive comedy is tiptoeing into the Ethiopian mainstream, upturning decades, even centuries, of cultural norms.
It was partially morbid and partially historical – my family had visited Auschwitz on an early trip to Poland and it effected me deeply – and partially subversive.
Serebrennikov is mostly known as a subversive theater director, but his controversial film The Student, which explored indoctrination, also won an award at Cannes in 2016.
The sitcom fails to depict the subversive nature of people who charge through life messing with expectations of gender and sexuality, best exemplified in drag queens.
There's not so much that art can do in this situation other than engaging in straight truth-telling, something that feels particularly subversive at the moment.
In 2014, writers Hazel Cills and Gabrielle Noone published a comprehensive guide to "snackwave," or the phenomenon of junk food as a somewhat subversive internet symbol.
When we think about resistance and we talk about subversive systems, we think, 'Well we can't do anything, no matter what I do it won't work.
If you think about it, the song could even be read as a feminist anthem — a subversive celebration of women's sexual agency in a repressive time.
Still, there are a few things — compiled from slightly more subversive interviews — that we wish the Guerrilla Girls had managed to tell this mainstream cable audience:
There is the finale, "Rockin' in the Free World," where you have to forgive Young's 80s Reaganing because he's added a new verse, subversive as ever.
Colette was such a subversive, queer, feminist icon—do you also feel there's a sense that audiences wouldn't have been ready for this film until 2018?
Columbian artist Daniel Forero abandoned the world of advertising, instead creating his own subversive, Pop art-inflected imagery—and our two eyes are glad he did.
I feel like that subversive tendency came from feeling so unwelcome in Texas, and maybe it continued to highlight the fact that they didn't fit in.
What makes Buffy so subversive even now, 20 years after the show's debut, is that it made Buffy herself the subject of traditionally masculine storytelling tropes.
And back then one word would have been used to describe the crime committed by anyone who coordinated with the Russians in such subversive activity: treason.
Edmund McMillen—of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac fame—tested out his perverse, subversive, body-horror sense of humor on Newgrounds' willing audience.
As an MFA student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Aguhar cultivated a subversive online presence dedicated to a high-femme, queer, brown girl aesthetic.
"The artists in the show are doing work that's not given the conceptual value it deserves because of its marginalized context and subversive media," says Meyers.
But upon crossing the threshold, you quickly realize that this facade is an aesthetic misdirection — the home is, in fact, a Trojan horse of subversive design.
The Magicians isn't as politically subversive as Buffy, to be sure, but it boasts socially conscious substance of its own, substance that informs everything it does.
Some SESTA opponents have suggested that the legislation will curtail the intentions of the "Good Samaritan" immunity by eliminating the incentive to suppress subversive content, altogether.
Soldiers stormed the town in search of subversive material but found no ammunition, explosives or Shining Path propaganda, according to a truth commission established by Peru.
The police also searched his home and church, looking for a stolen police helmet and baton as well as subversive material, according to a search warrant.
Andrea Giunta, co-curator with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, points to the importance of being disobedient under dictatorship and stresses the subversive power of unruliness and disorder.
I have a theory that at this point in her career, making a piano-only album would be the most subversive thing Lady Gaga could do.
Art informs the novel's subversive social critique, too, by exalting, however ironically, marginalized or working-class characters by comparing them to figures in masterpieces of art.
And while Dillinger Four remains the platonic ideal of that sound, they remain more subversive, and more lyrically verbose, than anyone that followed in their wake.
During interviews they've clearly accepted their roles as cultural ambassadors, often accidentally speaking in unison, while their live shows capture their powerful harmonies and subversive lyrics.
The experimental Franco-Austrian director Gisèle Vienne took the genre onto dark terrain in "The Ventriloquists Convention," a 2015 collaboration with the subversive novelist Dennis Cooper.
Anxious to suppress criticism, and maintain an appearance of mass support, the Communist Party's censors have scoured the internet and social media for content deemed subversive.
In the late 60s, conceptual artist Stephen Kaltenbach burst onto the New York art scene, populating the city with subversive works, then vanished just as quickly.
The voices of white supremacy insisted that Black lives were not human lives and any claim to human rights was subversive and threatening to the country.
Maybe Juster's earnest, mildly subversive playfulness, which dipped a toe or two into the brewing countercultural energies of the early '60s, has turned cloying with age?
That's just one of the questions posed in "Friday Black," a collection of subversive tales whose heroes have mastered racial coding through their style of dress.
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For a time during the 1970s, the Communist government of Czechoslovakia banned Mr. Svankmajer (pronounced SHVUNK-myer) from filmmaking, because they saw his movies as subversive.
A subversive ending for Game of Thrones would suggest that having any ruler seated on the Iron Throne, whether good or bad, would be a disaster.
In my mind, what's happened since Tywin's death has been a futile exercise in ending a subversive near-satire of a genre with a satisfying resolution.
The Medea Insurrection pairs works by some of these women with those by contemporary artists based in Southern California whose works also veer into the subversive.
In albums like Ultraviolence (2014) and Honeymoon (2015), she toyed with the concept of a torch song, producing subversive anti-anthems about romance's entanglement with death.
Book Entry The M.I.T. professor Alan Lightman has produced a highly personal polemic targeting the subversive impact on civilization of the increasingly frenetic pace of life.
Giorgio de Chirico created a slyly subversive cover for the November 1935 issue that endowed a traditional fashion still life with a hint of Surrealist menace.

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