Example Sentences

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I don’t feel particularly driven to write something that is overtly political, but I’m always interested in writing what is subversively political.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

The increasingly unsettling revelations power what The New York Times’s Ben Brantley called a “very fine, subversively original new play” at its Off Broadway premiere in 2014 at the Signature Theater.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023

It’s we who must decide if there will even be generations, a century from now, to look back on our follies, no less thank us for subversively saving our planet for them.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2023

The church came to represent Rus national identity as people turned to Christianity to distinguish themselves from, and perhaps subversively resist, the Mongols.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Starring Dakota Johnson as the “past her prime” heroine Anne Elliot, “Persuasion,” debuting on Netflix on Friday, is still set in Regency-era England but with some distinctly modern flourishes and a subversively comedic voice.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022