Natasha Rothwell

When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a Venn diagram between why people are drawn to the characters I play, it may be that. But I'd like to think that the craft of acting and the choices I make as an actor are drawing people on their own merits.

American Actress

Douglas Murray

Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.

Alex Gibney

I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.

American Director

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

Filipino Statesman

Thomas Frank

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

American Author

Kate McKinnon

It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.

William H. Seward

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

American Statesman

Paul Watson

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

Canadian Environmentalist

Kevin Shelley

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

American Politician

Lisa Joy

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

Used when someone aims to weaken or overthrow authority or systems.

Power Dynamics

Sometimes, 'subvert' can indicate innovation or positive change.

Not Always Negative

Consider if 'subvert' fits the situation; it's forceful and may imply conspiracy.

Context Sensitive

Often used in legal or formal contexts to imply manipulation of rules.

Legality Hint

Indicates altering something to oppose its original purpose or meaning.

Opposing Intent

Recognize when 'subvert' implies misuse or corruption of principles.

Misuse Awareness

Used to describe a challenge to traditional or accepted methods/ideas.

Creative Twist

Refers to actions intended to surprise or disrupt normal expectations.

Expectation Breaker

Suggests a questioning or undermining of societal norms or beliefs.

Cultural Reflection

 Some might find this frustrating because the plot subverts expectations of how mysteries usually end. But by refusing to provide a clear answer, these two artists capture the messiness and complexity of truth and human memory. Neuroscientists have found that when we form a memory, our interpretation of visual information is influenced

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 And I've been writing about these creatures ever since. Few topics in biology enthrall me more. It's like the parasites have subverted my own brain. Because after all, they are always compelling and they are delightfully macabre. When you write about parasites, your lexicon swells with phrases like

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 which was specifically targeted by the Bullrun program, we will live a less safe world overall. We won't be able to access our banks and we won't be able to access commerce without worrying about people monitoring those communications or subverting them for their own ends.

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 No protection. Or is it a physically fixed expression of an something that somebody made and they deserve to own it for a while and make money from it? The problem is that digital technology has completely subverted the logic of this physically fixed, expression

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 But this is where assertive, modern populist candidates can subvert democracy. Modern populists identify themselves as embodying the "will of the people," and they place those interests above the institutions that protect individual and social rights.

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 Players expect their video games to offer them branching narrative so that every decision that they make feels important and can change the outcome of the game. We subverted that principle of game design, collapsing the choices in on the player

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 ones the pride of the city by changing their uniforms these white grey squirrels have successfully subverted humans to their cause albino squirrels are usually rare but only has the biggest concentration in the world they've survived here for

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 Spending money helping others doesn't necessarily promote happiness. Instead, it matters how we do it. And if we want people to give more, we need to subvert the way we think about charitable giving. We need to create opportunities to give

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 give a self expression and collective knowledge they have a dark side these tools are so powerful that they distort our very perception of reality they can subvert and corrupt and even manipulate

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 Get smarter incentives. The truth is that there are no incentives that you can devise that are ever going to be smart enough. Any incentive system can be subverted by bad will.

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