How to Use subversion in a Sentence

subversion

noun

• In a way this film is a reaction to, or a subversion of that.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• But the other thing that is really cool is the subversion of that idea.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
• But a lot of it was subversion, trying to set up expectations of what should the present day Asian tong be like?
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
• Of course, there's still plenty of subversion going on.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 16 Aug. 2022
• There are a couple of instances of subversion, moments when Your Place or Mine winks and pokes fun at itself.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2023
• Willis has set a deadline of noon on Friday for the people indicted last week in the election subversion case to turn themselves in.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
• The subversion comes from the direction Tindle wanted to take this story.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• That alertness has just as much to do with subversion as celebration, if not more.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• Bombshell beauty was on the menu this week, with looks defined by bold details born of confidence and subversion.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 18 June 2023
• In August, a woman was charged with threatening to kill Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversees the 2020 election subversion case.
  — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• There are jokes that attempt genre subversion on the most superficial of levels.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• Trump hired Sadow to represent him in the Georgia election subversion case.
  — Richard Lardner, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• By contrast, Persuasion seems to think its best strength is its wild subversion of the author’s steady narration.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• Even those that do show Sophia engaged in domestic activities do so with a note of subversion.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
• He was eventually accused of subversion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
  — Sarah Dilorenzo, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
• His success, then, is also its own contradiction: Owens has made subversion covetable; his clothes, meant for the shunned, have been embraced as well by those who’d do the shunning.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• But clothing is never just a piece of fabric, and the subversion in claiming that innermost men’s garment is an essential part of the message.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
• Wanda will be the villain, and that’s probably the kind of expectations subversion that Sam Raimi teases in the featurette.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Apr. 2022
• This week's episode of Atlanta takes its typical pop culture commentary to a new level of subversion.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
• With a pinch of subversion, Shelf literalizes an old idea, the separation of mind from body, and a more recent one, the commodification of the artist.
  — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
• Gitlow’s name is a harsh pun: His particular role — both in Purlie’s scheme and in his own daily life for reasons of subversion and survival — is to dance attendance on Ol’ Cap’n.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
• Here are some recent books where perspective is a site of experiment, subversion and play.
  — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The movie’s wry gender subversions extend to its ridiculous depiction of PJ and Josie’s male peers, specifically the jocks, who spend the entire movie in their football uniforms.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• Along with friendship and direct connection to the artists, another key theme is playful subversion.
  — Kate Matthams, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• The Angry Black woman trope could’ve been an easy trap for a less skilled actress to fall into, but Sandra’s subversion of niceness is refreshing in Newton’s hands.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 28 Jan. 2022
• In other words, the defendants’ subjective purpose may have been to fight against the subversion of law, not to prevent its execution.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
• There’s a hint of subversion, something Hough maintains today with a twinkle permanently in his eye.
  — Hugh Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong, here in 2013, is expected to face trial soon on subversion charges.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
• Not everybody was feeling quiet and homely: the times call for subversion and rebellion, too.
  — Angelo Flaccavento, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
• The primary threat to Saudi Arabia is not a ground invasion but air and missile strikes and internal subversion.
  — Daniel C. Kurtzer, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024