Pretending that these were not, in fact, the show’s dramatic turning points for the sake of claiming great (and continued) subversiveness is silly. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » More Sopranos Blogging] Reference
This caused "subversiveness," a principle English professors usually favor. From Wordnik.com. [Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment] Reference
But maybe the subversiveness and the rebellion aren't anything unique. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Fridkis: Doing Nothing and Everything in Your Twenties] Reference
Their ‘subversiveness’ makes our compromises show up as what they are. From Wordnik.com. [Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill] Reference
Any controversy this movie creates only adds to its aura of subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [News alert: Borat not real! | EW.com] Reference
This caused “subversiveness,” a principle English professors usually favor. From Wordnik.com. [They Argued With Her? In Academia!?] Reference
The marketing of subversiveness has been around in the art world for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
The style of subversiveness is, ultimately, only as good as the substance it contains. From Wordnik.com. [On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight] Reference
Naturally, being a studio movie, "Bigger Than Life" had to disguise such subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. ['Bigger Than Life': A Subversive Suburban Surprise] Reference
If nobody noticed the subversiveness at the time, did the work actually subvert much of anything?. From Wordnik.com. [Subversion] Reference
Blogs are dead - at least in terms of being the "next big thing" in terms of political subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. ["George Orwell once observed, brilliantly, that every joke is a tiny revolution."] Reference
He may be trying to get people to think ... although that certainly skirts on the edge of subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Bejeweled] Reference
I never used to care for Dali until I found his total subversiveness and very rock-and-rollish attitudes to art. From Wordnik.com. [Breton’s homophobia « Jahsonic] Reference
These days the spotlight may have moved on, but Frankel has lost nothing of his inventiveness -- or his subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Frankel Rocks On] Reference
Still, she's become the high priestess of subversiveness, especially among alternative-music fans who watched in horror as fashion editors discovered grunge. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, Tarzan--Pj Harvey Is Back] Reference
She's sugary sweet and filled with subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Salon]
Brit Awards came tantalisingly close to subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [NME Features]
It would suppress subversiveness as well as what is called bad taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet] Reference
Gosh, I love love loved this episode and Ellen and Portia's adorable subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
Yet it has a quiet, polite subversiveness which Nicolas Dickner's first novel epitomises. From Wordnik.com. [MP3Board.com] Reference
It may be a little roughed up from four decades of subversiveness, but there are many pluses. From Wordnik.com. [Curbed] Reference
Even the internet for all its subversiveness has still a very large component of the mainstream. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
It recalls Spike Lee's domestication of Malcolm X, inevitably weakening the subject's subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [New York Press] Reference
The market appropriates Rage's message, repackages it and sells it devoid of its initial subversiveness. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Step up research output, technology minister tells scientists] Reference
Even the internet, for all its-for all its subversiveness, has still a very large component of the mainstream. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
Indeed, Morrissey has paid everlasting homage to the wit and camp subversiveness of Oscar Wilde; the chart-topping single. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
The subversiveness of Mr. Leath's opinions was enhanced by the distinction of his appearance and the reserve of his manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
Someone asked how the subversiveness of feminism works for or against the acceptance of romance (not sure I got that right). From Wordnik.com. [Teach Me Tonight] Reference
Jose Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe), "one of the handful of filmmakers to whom the phrase 'pulp subversiveness' genuinely applies.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
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