Sentence examples for a perverse version of from inspiring English sources

Moir's creation – Vic Reeves – was a perverse version of a "light-ent" compere but with the attitudes and self-belief borrowed from a rock star.

The boy was spread, neither sitting nor lying Gregory was doing a perverse version of both at once across the leather seat cushion of the big Stickley that Patrick had carted with him everywhere he'd lived since college.

In a perverse version of the boost given to Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama by being outsiders, Jedward's sheer unsuitability for what they are doing makes them more attractive candidates, their hopelessness nicely contrasting with the steely ambition of other aspirants.

It's a perverse version of the Buddhist mantra "desire is but the beginning of suffering".

Right now, with our leaders crafting pernicious policies around a perverse version of the American past, we must insistently advance our more complete story.

Setting aside the indignity of a process in which over 100 players parade across a stage in their underwear in the football community's perverse version of Fashion Week, there are valid questions about just how relevant the Senior Bowl is.

"We are achieving our own perverse version of majimboism," wrote one of Kenya's leading columnists, Macharia Gaitho.

Something in my talk tells them I'm not 'down.' " One gets the sense that Yvonne has always been able to level one set of prejudices against another to get ahead — that is, she knows how to play her own perverse version of the race card.

It's time we put the final nail in the coffin of sports' uniquely perverse version trickle-down economics.

But if Rabbit was an unapologetic sinner -- specializing in lust and gluttony, with strong side interests in vanity and sloth -- he was also, in Updike's perverse, persuasive version of Protestant theology, a saint.

Sounds like a perverse (and way smarter?) version of the government, but it's really the Googlement, which "displaces government" even as it "raise[s] comparable issues of legitimacy and authority," and ultimately will comprise a "modern networked administrative state".