It adds to the discomfiture that this soft-spoken ex-journalist -- who cheerfully labels his work "transgressive" -- looks uncannily like Anthony Perkins circa Psycho.    From Wordnik.com.  [JAM! Showbiz] Reference

Shakespeare, who understood this best, subtitled his transgressive play What You Will.    From Wordnik.com.  [In praise of … Twelfth Night | Editorial] Reference

Shakespeare, who understood this best, subtitled his transgressive play What You Will'.    From Wordnik.com.  [In praise of … Twelfth Night | Editorial] Reference

Aliens – one which has been described as transgressive, and the other which is a delightful family romp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzine » Reese Witherspoon & Seth Rogen] Reference

They tap into our adolescent power fantasies; their hollow-point bloodshed seems transgressive, which is why video games are to this century what rock 'n' roll was to the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glory of the Shooter] Reference

Does it merely have to be "transgressive" of genre boundaries?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Fiction] Reference

How could these villainous murders seem so abstractly "transgressive" to me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 1 of 5] Reference

He's got balls the size of watermelons to do that, though... talk about 'transgressive'!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Lambert sings "Ring of Fire."] Reference

The magazine comes packaged with one of the clothing company's multipage "transgressive" advertorials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vibe and Spin Face Down a Murky Future] Reference

Seven "transgressive" images among the 175 photographs on view were hotly denounced — and defended — nationwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture for Art's Sake] Reference

In the comments to the McSweeney's post, below, Bruce Williams wondered if we couldn't put "transgressive" out of its misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor:] Reference

His works on academia, starting with "Changing Places" (1975) and including his new novel, actually seem "transgressive" to most Europeans, he tells me.    From Wordnik.com.  [His University Career Is Over,] Reference

Needless to say these choices have implications in terms of meaning and provide some of what the group consider the "transgressive" nature of their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bigger (the Art), the Better] Reference

It tells us a great deal, I think, that terms like "transgressive" and "challenging" have emerged as among the highest words of praise in the critical lexicon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art and Culture] Reference

So we salute your uniquely squiggly and "transgressive" lines while listening to the lines, and strains, of your own poignantly penned song, "Lost in the City.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A CARTOONIST'S TRIBUTE: Let us not forget the unflinching wit of John Callahan] Reference

Whatever is "transgressive" in these encounters ultimately disappears into such bland issues of power: the issue of control, the realm of plaintiffs and defendants.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Sade's Daughters] Reference

Hellraiser reboot director wants it to stay "transgressive".    From Wordnik.com.  [SCI FI Wire] Reference

She's interesting mostly because she's the most popular "transgressive" or "weird" performer/musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [MetaTalk] Reference

If there is one noticeable consistency in the selections this year, it's that they all appear very reserved; there is nothing in the show that might qualify as "transgressive" or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clog] Reference

COOPER: If you want really transgressive, the posthumously prolific Tupac Shakur.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2003] Reference

Then the involvement in a transgressive lifestyle compounds their emotional insecurity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

That's what makes Borat a cult figure to college kids -- and a hero to other transgressive comics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Funny- Or Too Far?] Reference

As Dren metamorphoses she draws her makers into deviant, transgressive behaviour as parents, victims and lovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Splice] Reference

Indeed, the best of Green's man-in-the-street segments are reminiscent of David Letterman in his transgressive prime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wild And Crazy Guy] Reference

Though Sontag is one of modernism's great champions, she sees that the interesting is losing its "transgressive bite.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Sontag's Last Stands] Reference

Rush's sometimes slightly transgressive sense of humor and his entertainer's style represent admittedly a greater handicap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Yet Melted] Reference

Sure, such transgressive fare is often accompanied by catalogs filled with weighty theory justifying the esthetic nose-thumbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Art Gets Serious] Reference

More transgressive yet, the rebellious former PM confessed that he had handwritten it himself, with a pen, on "hundreds of notepads".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter, Tony Blair... can these blockbusters save the world of books?] Reference

A big part of the problem is that they start out with a psychological bent and attraction to the transgressive nature of homosexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Alan knew it, a great shop with a huge selection of cult movies and a brisk trade in zines, transgressive literature, action figures and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

The most rapid changes probably were spatially and temporally transgressive, with the global mean change thus occurring much less rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference