subversions

The State Department and the White House always say that there are three obstacles to improving the relations between Cuba and the United States: They are your allegiance to the Soviet Union, what they call subversions in this hemisphere, and a large number of your troops in Africa.

FIDEL CASTRO INTERVIEW WITH PBS MACNEIL 1985

Its resources include a telephone company i.e. a kid with a cell phone, seated behind a porthole, and — subversion of subversions — a teacher who thinks his students should be taught the truth.

'Witch': Toil And Trouble Joe Morgenstern 2011

Postmodernism lacks the order to throw such clever compositional subversions or shifts into high relief, while its puritanical ancestor Modernism, as we see, has no room for such necessary and unique departures.

The Dangers of Architectural Positivism 2009

With Scream 4 shooting this spring and a new Leslie Vernon movie in the works, we seem set for a new wave of slasher subversions.

Jay Baruchel Writing, Wants to Direct “Socio-Racial” Slasher Film, Pig | /Film 2010

They're representations of representations, subversions of a western exotic.

Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe Stuart Jeffries 2010

While the film's subversions are delicate, and entertaining, its subjects are perfectly clear: the hypocrisy of discrimination, and the stupidity of authority.

'Witch': Toil And Trouble Joe Morgenstern 2011

In effect, all these rogues and fools are basically antiheroic subversions of the classic combination of the dutiful, resolute champion.

A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009

Priests … dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

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In effect, all these rogues and fools are basically antiheroic subversions of the classic combination of the dutiful, resolute champion.

Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Priests dread the advances of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

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