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Transgressive

Transgressive meaning

Involving transgression; that passes beyond some acceptable limit; sinful. | Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.

Example sentences (20)

You do something bold and it has the result you sought or you do something transgressive and get away with it, so the next thing you do is bolder and more transgressive.

A less transgressive filmmaker would have restricted the massacre scene to only a few minutes; heck, they would’ve the film with it and ended it with the assassination.

A lot of transgressive artists are like that.

Because I don’t want people to have a 2023 idea of what y’all were doing, because it sounds much more transgressive when I’ve heard you talk about it.

I'm looking for something that's transgressive, that sort of goes against the common wisdom.

There are things it has to say — not about transgressive politics and its comeuppance, but about what is seen to be politics-as-usual.

But what shaped your artistic vision to be as intense, meaning sharp and transgressive at the same time?

For me, it was the emotional infidelity, not the physical, that made the affair transgressive.

It’s felt strangely bold – transgressive, even – to dress in “boy ” and embrace alternative haircuts.

Most of the “fun” has been bleached from this fair, so it feels worthy rather than rowdy, respectful instead of transgressive.

Queer director Darren Stein—whose own films like have cult followings—told : “I think all cult movies have something that’s intrinsically transgressive about them.

But the schoolgirl skirt, and thus the schoolgirl as a figure, is transgressive.

Here, then, are the most disturbing movies of all time, a list of transgressive cinema that will leave you shell-shocked and cowering.

I worry about building empathy in a world where hugging is seen as transgressive and possibly fatal.

Plus, Marissa and Laura delve into other, more transgressive, Holmes stories with female protagonists.

So she appears to have taken a creative and therapeutic decision to confront her dad’s looming death head-on, to cauterise the pain of death with outrageously explicit and transgressive spectacles.

The Victorians, she added, were fascinated by the transgressive woman.

All three saw Tantra as "the most transgressive and violent path to the sacred".

A woman who wears her husband's shirt to bed is considered attractive while a man who wears his wife's nightgown to bed may be considered transgressive.

Caught between the transgressive elements of her cult film and the mainstream appeal of soft-core pornography, she was unable to work in anything but exploitation films and Emmanuelle sequels.