Word: subverter
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...Broadway--Mary-Louise Parker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anne Heche--radiate an otherworldly, almost Martian eccentricity. The question with them was, How can you believe Catherine when she says she wrote a pioneering mathematical equation? With Paltrow the question is, How can you not? Her reading doesn't subvert the play's problem; it's just a more elegant way of reaching the solution...
...they want unrest in the street, I will enforce the law. I will stop any violence. If they want to subvert the constitution, I will fight them every step of the way." GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, embattled Philippine President, in a radio address, challenging opponents seeking to force her from office...
...orphan; he's actually a wealthy wizard who rides a secret train to a castle, and so on. But as they go on, you realize that while the fun stuff is pure cotton candy, the problems are very real--embarrassment, prejudice, depression, anger, poverty, death. "I was trying to subvert the genre," Rowling explains bluntly. "Harry goes off into this magical world, and is it any better than the world he's left? Only because he meets nicer people. Magic does not make his world better significantly. The relationships make his world better. Magic in many ways complicates his life...
...Going through this process, I have seen Harvard management subvert the truth repeatedly for the purpose of winning. Money is another weapon for them, withholding it from deserving employees, using it to mount an overwhelming defense, and then punishing plaintiffs by handing them a bill for an amount that would be a drop in the bucket for them, but very burdensome for an underpaid employee,” she said...
...warning to play-wrights of the pitfalls of political relevance; by the end of his long life he had seen social change transmute his radical socialism into dusty avuncularity. He is now most celebrated as a mainstream practitioner of the very drawing-room-comedy formulas that he tried to subvert toward hortatory ends. The plays that work best today are flights of poetry, as in his masterpiece, Heartbreak House; wistful romances, as in Candida; and whimsies about the eternal wars of the sexes, as in You Never Can Tell, which opened last week in a beguiling Broadway revival...