Subverts

In this he again subverts a Boomer paradigm, of black victimology or black conservatism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Slang subverts authority; dictionaries exist to be authoritative. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Harry's Law, forces the question: when the way a particular writer "subverts" ❋ James Poniewozik (2011)

It will inevitably be said that Malouf's novel "subverts" or "undermines" the "Iliad," but his impressive knowledge of the epic's more abstruse themes and features and their subtle redeployment belie such a rote notion; "Ransom" disavows the flip free association often seen in the modern reshaping of Greek myth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This trend is clearly contrary to any idea that religion is nowadays providing solace to the disinherited and dispossessed, or that higher education subverts religion. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

* Glenn Greenwald says the temporary defeat of the Patriot Act reveals anew that the only way civil liberties will be preserved is through a left-right alliance of outsiders that subverts the two-party stranglehold on our politics. ❋ Greg Sargent (2011)

Our "understanding, when it acts alone, and according to its most general principles, entirely subverts itself," he said, "and leaves not the lowest degree of evidence of any proposition, either in philosophy or common life." ❋ John Paul Rollert (2011)

This is not only interesting because it sees an actual actress in the running for such a role, but also because it subverts the normal gender hierarchy of a Bond plotline somewhat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In both cases, his response subverts the question, going deeper to challenge its basic assumptions. ❋ Shane Claiborne (2011)

The Big Bang Theory - Not science fiction at all, unless you buy into the stereotype of geeks being unable to 'get the girl', which BBT subverts nicely, as it does many other geek stereotypes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones succeeds precisely because it subverts our confidence that we know what Nazis were, that we have adequate explanations for what motivated them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He suggests that in order to fathom it, “one should imagine a world in which many of the German SS would have had Jewish relatives”—a perspective that subverts the conventional idea that genocide arises from hatred of the “other.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

The video subverts that argument by rendering exposed and covered flesh two sides of the same coin but as manifestations of personal freedom of dress. ❋ Nesrine Malik (2010)

No plot beyond the effort to get to the station, no character development beyond what is added in each transmutation, which sometimes subverts and contradicts what we think we've learned before. ❋ Unknown (2010)