Sentence examples for a perverse turn from inspiring English sources

In what is quite literally a perverse turn on Ann Landers and Dear Abby but a page right out of Dr. Ruth the central premise of the book is that the animals of the world, experiencing problems in their love lives, or perhaps simply bewildered by the sexual behavior of their own species, write letters requesting advice from Dr. Tatiana, an expert in the evolutionary biology of sex.

But in a perverse turn of events, its "web presence" has never been better.

In a perverse twist to the idea of a consumer economy, it turns out most of our consumption is taken up with buying pensions and insurance.

Anyone reading this reluctantly knows the perverse turn of events that followed: instead of a lesson on the holiday season, these young students were attacked and killed.

Plato often observes that the ignorant prefer to remain as they are (Symposium 204a), but this perverse turn toward ignorance is different.

An exploration of an American genius whose life and career took many perverse turns.

But Kuusisto and Stefanovich's self-indulgent performance seemed a perverse attempt to turn the sonata into a succession of slow movements, in which the latter's sparing use of vibrato made a tendency to play on the sharp side of the piano's pitch distracting.

It sometimes seems like a perverse insistence on turning back the clock just a bit, as though to say none of it ever quite happened: My husband never came up the steps in his dusty boots, there was no breeze last night that blew the pine needles across the porch floor, nor did we leave the wineglasses on the table when we sat outside later listening to the owl.

"For us, there's a perverse pleasure in turning the museum curators into pawnbrokers," Mr. Vidokle joked.

Albinos are an expensive commodity -- in a perverse topsy-turvy turning of the capitalist system.

Is it a little perverse to turn that into something recorded and written?