Fashion's subversive edge has now become its center; some of French fashion's most established names have been marginalized.

As farce trumps satire, the humor's subversive edge is lost, along with meaningful character development, except for the brilliant exception of Catherine O'Hara.

Indeed, it has been suggested that the matching of sensibilities is a little too cozy, taking some of the 1930's subversive edge off the opera.

From the look of the illuminated manuscripts, with their monkey-suckling nuns and bird-headed Jesuses, you can guess where footnotes and quotations get their subversive edge.

Teasing (sfottò) is an ancient form of simple buffoonery, a form of comedy without satire's subversive edge.

It is a secretive organisation based upon anarchistic lines, engaged in political, cultural, and artistic activities, usually with a subversive edge.

He remembers its opposition to that reigning style as having a subversive edge - the design world's answer to a speak-easy.

Their terrible music, their subversive edge, tWf complete disregard for the opinion of their peers.

Steely Dan camouflaged its subversive edge a little too well.

Until recently, the art world sanctioned little work with overt religious content unless it possessed a critical, subversive edge.