He was cast as the subversive and corrupt character of Rhett Tanner, head of a knock-them-off political machine, in The Phenix City Story.
In socialist Czechoslovakia, the authors had to explain their "subversive" characters and stories to the Prague watch-dogs of the regime, e.g. one of the questions was if they chose the shirt colours, red and yellow, to make fun of the Soviet-Chinese tensions.
Satire instead uses the comic to go against power and its oppressions, has a subversive character, and a moral dimension which draws judgement against its targets.
The gazette concludes that the crime and weapon used suggest a foreign birth and subversive character; it reports that the mutineer was executed and nothing is amiss aboard HMS Bellipotent.
Nancy is sometimes critically viewed as a subversive character for girl readers.
But I don't vouch for them; they're both subversive characters.
I think it is clear that your father is a subversive character, a bad influence, a wicked old man... and I admire him without limit and hope to grow up like him.' '
The report advocated that Guild members be barred from federal employment in light of the organization's "subversive" character.
This subversive character will ALWAYS have my love and admiration .