Word: subverter
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Still, you may luxuriate in the landscapes and in the performances -- by Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Giovanni Giudelli and (of course) Helena Bonham Carter -- that subvert caricature. And you are permitted to weep at the film's climax: a last embrace of two not-quite lovers, closest at this instant of separate, mutual despair. It is a sweet, seductive, haunting final shot...
...more like fighting a war. And as in any war, where morality is tailored to the cause, students here have a self-righteous pride about their ability to subvert the enemy...
...active and intelligent dialogue. We writer to express our belief that the recent candle-light vigil on the steps of the University Church, directed against our friend and colleague, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, while masquerading as an act of Christian charity, was in fact an ungenerous attempt to subvert exactly the sort of thoughtful dialogue that most people in all traditions desire...
Mentioning reader-response was my wimpy attempt to subvert having to make categorical statements about what the author was trying to do. If I learned anything about theory as an English concentrator, I know not to assign any importance to authorial intent...
...also said the Cuban government has supported efforts to subvert democratic governments in Latin America and "has trained terrorists from the world over...