Today's comics are often better produced and stylistically more distinctive than their predecessors, as if the artists themselves are more convinced that they are making art, not just an amusing, slightly subversive form of entertainment.

And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA, downloaded onto her own iPod.

When you read the positive reviews, the critics totally understood that we were trying to make a slightly subversive love story, wrapped inside the trappings of an action film.

Mr. Itzler has created his own slightly subversive singles fantasy for people in their 20's.

It is a farmhouse once again, but a farmhouse with a slightly subversive contemporary spirit.

In the present upbeat climate, downbeat data are slightly subversive.

This engaging, slightly subversive sculpture - originally made for an Otterness show on the plaza in 1995 - may tweak the moneybags organization it fronts.

It is a slightly subversive gesture of defiance to the governing party.

It was purple, with gold buttons like stars, and while I could wear it to the office, it had the tight-fitting, slightly subversive feel of a cat suit.

More often than not his pictures revealed a photojournalist with a sure eye for composition and a restrained, slightly subversive sense of historical drama.