1 It argues for the potential subversiveness of the "restraint" as a strategy, discusses the relevance of such "restraint" to the Clerk the narrator, and Chaucer the poet.

2 Sometimes only the subversiveness of comedy can do justice to the extremes of horror.

3 The article analyzes the postmodern subversiveness through its deconstruction of traditional aesthetics, traditional religion and traditional narrative mode.

4 There is something in the subtle, light-hearted humour that carries a trace of subversiveness.

5 Post-modernism, which affects the whole world with its extreme rebelliousness and subversiveness, has influenced the works of Chinese directors of the new generation which sprang up in the 1990s.

6 But Astell resents, of course, Milton here, and what she resents is the limitation of his subversiveness.

7 The image of death and theory of death existing in "the secondary world" and "the second type of life" displays its own charm to us through its particular subversiveness to the world that is not free.