Example Sentences

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It’s clear from watching Twin Peaks that Lynch and Frost were dedicated students of the primetime soap opera, and were drawing from its immense melodramatic pull as much as they were subverting it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2020

Yet here they were, subverting the very idea that nations can engage in anything more than Hobbesian competition and conflict.

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2017

Having thought they were subverting the corporate music industry with In Rainbows, he now fears they were inadvertently playing into the hands of Apple and Google and the rest.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2013