Example Sentences

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I felt that I was subverting many of those genre archetypes through the structure of the film.

From Salon • May 1, 2022

They feel like they’re trying to communicate something bigger, and I think the fun, for us, was subverting that.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

“The approach to that was subverting what we tend to see in the mainstream when it comes to Latino characters — a white male lead with a character of color as a sidekick,” she said.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021

The Good Place was subverting some sitcom conventions but it was also embracing others.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2018

Bacon was not aware of his relations to the science and art of education; he praises the Jesuit schools, not knowing that he was subverting their very foundations.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter