10 QUOTES WITH «SUBVERSIVE»
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subversive.
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBVERSIVE»
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Subversive Spirituality
Comprising occasional pieces, short biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings, and interviews, this work captures the epiphanies of life with the pleasing pastoral style and inspiring depth of insight for which Peterson is well known.
Eugene H. Peterson, Jim Lyster, John Sharon, 1997
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American
Subversive: A Novel
She’s the one responsible.” An astonishing debut novel, American Subversive is a “genuinely thrilling thriller” (NewYorker.com) as well as “an exploration of what motivates radicalism in an age of disillusion” (The New York ...
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Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-garde
With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde.
Susan Rubin Suleiman, 1990
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Teaching As a
Subversive Activity
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of ...
The collapse of socialist dictatorships in Europe from 1989 to 1992.
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Parables as
Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the ...
William Herzog shows that the focus of the parables was not on a vision of the glory of the reign of God but on the gory details of the way oppression served the interests of the ruling class.
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The
Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to ...
See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors.
Carol Fisher Saller, 2009
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Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art
How contemporary Chinese art is creating “a philosophy of life, a philosophy of politics, and a natural philosophy,” as artist Qiu Zhijie says it must, is explored in this collection of essays by philosophers and art historians from ...
Mary Wiseman, Liu Yuedi, Yuedi Liu, 2011
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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville
This book makes several claims which ought to be stated at the outset: that Herman Melville is a recorder and interpreter of American society whose work is comparable to that of the great nineteenth-century European realists; that there was ...
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Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-century France
This is the subject of Subversive Words, the newest book by French historian Arlette Farge. Farge begins with Jürgen Habermas's notion of a bourgeois public sphere.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBVERSIVE»
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Theatre review: We Get It a subversive satire of theatre's double …
... to deliver a rich and haunting portrayal of Sophocles' heroine. We Get It is brilliantly subversive and entertaining – a fitting finale to this year's Neon Festival. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Watch: John Carpenter, Subversive Auteur
John Carpenter seems to gravitate towards the subversive, be it in the form of critiquing American ideology in 'They Live' (1988) or building an action star out of ... «Indie Wire, Jun 15»
Subversive Stitching: A New Twist On An Old Tradition
I was stitching a project from Julie Jackson's book Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 F*cking Clever Designs for Your Sassy Side. My wife paged through the designs, ... «Autostraddle, May 15»
Subversive Pleasure
And pleasure is often subversive, Angela Carter teaches us. We are thrown off balance by delight, by terror, by beauty, by humor. And sometimes we dismiss the ... «New York Times, May 15»
Bogs and Fens and Subversive Botanica raise questions about …
Satoshi Fujinuma's Forget me not. Photo: supplied. Bogs and Fens by Craft ACT Artists-in-Residence and Subversive Botanica by Julie Bartholomew. Craft ACT. «The Canberra Times, May 15»
The Subversive Brilliance of “A Little Life”
And with Jude at its center, “A Little Life” becomes a surprisingly subversive novel—one that uses the middle-class trappings of naturalistic fiction to deliver an ... «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
Subversive Theatre stages Christopher Durang's 'Why Torture is …
Subversive Theatre stages Christopher Durang's 'Why Torture is Wrong' ... by Kurt Schneiderman's Subversive Theatre Collective and directed by Thomas ... «Buffalo News, Mar 15»
The Subversive James Comey
You wonder if Hoover would have accused Comey of subversive intent. "All of us in law enforcement must be honest enough to acknowledge that much of our ... «RealClearPolitics, Feb 15»
Five Short Plays Are Brilliantly Subversive
Here is an hour of theatre that runs and slams itself against the limits of convention. Co-produced by Les Foules — a multi-disciplinary company of performers ... «Londonist, Feb 15»
The subversive brilliance of Marshawn Lynch
With the sports media obsessing over the precise degree to which Tom Brady and the Patriots' balls were inflated in the AFC Championship game, Seattle ... «The Week Magazine, Jan 15»
