Object

• stereotype: In Othello, the idea of the treacherous Moor versus the noble white man is inverted, subverting the stereotype.

• expectation: Aja's genius is to subvert expectations by continually undermining the genre.

• hierarchy: Showing the work at the museum sought to subvert hierarchy 's of representation.

• genre: I admire people like Shadow Morton or Lee Hazelwood, who subvert the genre from within.

• convention: It does not seek to challenge society or to wreck or subvert the conventions of jewelry making.

• democracy: How can we turn our backs when the Iranian regime attempts to subvert the newborn democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Subject

• regime: Right now these resolutions are being unilaterally subverted by the Iraqi regime.

Modifying Another Word

• subtly: They may subtly subvert the whole NHS reform agenda, undermining attempts to tackle their poor performance with threats of no-confidence votes.

• completely: Such a development completely subverts the purpose of the quota and has a very demoralizing effect on in-house production.

• sometimes: The works introduce new meanings and messages; forge technical and esthetic innovations and sometimes subvert the standards imposed by the mainstream gaming industry.

• easily: This test too, as a regulation, could be easily subverted by the addition of a nitrate compound.

• also: This would make the forging of cards fairly pointless, unless one could also subvert both the Master Databases.

• not: That the Russians involved in the peace keeping will not subvert the process on the ground.

Used with why or when

• what: The examples grossly misrepresent van Helmont, however, and subvert what we might want to convey about the nature of science.

• whatever: An educated artisan, he subverts whatever categories we try to impose.

Preposition: in

• way: In fact, any creed that purports to have access to " Truth " can be subverted in this way.

Preposition: by

• regime: Right now these resolutions are being unilaterally subverted by the Iraqi regime.