The subtext of the public exchange between the two leaders was the subversive effects of a free market on a controlled socialist society - something the Chinese and the Vietnamese call "peaceful evolution."
Guerrilla communication and communication guerrilla refer to an attempt to provoke subversive effects through interventions in the process of communication.
The real Master class here is about acting - and that includes just about everybody else in the film, especially Adams, whose twinkly girl-next-door quality is used here to fine subversive effect.
Felix Guattari and Nan Goldin also make appearances, among other cultural figures, though Kraus's use of "reality" comes to more subversive effect than a simple roman à clef.
This three-member art-making team, based in Havana, toys with elements of Modernist art and design to slyly subversive effect.
But she uses it to slyly subversive effect to burnish a theatrical chestnut that needs all the polish it can get.
And the subtler, inherently subversive effects are too numerous to imagine.
According to Lungu, the Cibotaru edition even had an unforeseen subversive effect, by allowing local writers a rare glimpse into the non-official forms of literary culture.
Exclusion from the industrial order, Mr. Lane argues, had a profoundly subversive effect on community life because it denied black people the discipline that accompanied factory labor.
However, actions taken by terrorists may have a subversive effect on society.