Sentence examples for a perversion in from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the battle becomes so violent that a perversion in the artist can occur: these days, Joni Mitchell thinks of herself more as a painter than a singer.

The "magic underwear" was compared to a skullcap, and Mr. Beck insisted that polygamy was seen as a "perversion" in the modern church.

Same-gender attraction was mostly deemed to be a perversion in judgment on the part of weak minded individuals.

"I said, 'Fuck this, let me write the petition.' I saw it as a perversion in the structure of our criminal justice system.

Rose, another older working woman at the Chicken Ranch, has branded herself as a perversion expert (in her off hours she is a waxer), but what we see her clients demanding is fairly benign.

M.S.B.P. was framed in psychiatric terms, as a "female perversion" in which the perpetrator "feels a sense of elation when brazenly defying the moral order".

The simple truth is, Roman Polanski is a pedophile, which is defined by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary as someone with a sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object.

"It's an element that's very visual but a perversion of migration in the country".

"Not only does it block conversion to the faith; it is a perversion of faith!" In softer tones he urged families to show love by attention to small daily signs "which make us feel at home" – themes emblazoned on banners which fluttered in a cool breeze across the city.

In Rwanda, in a perversion of the legendary African conviviality and solidarity, people killed one by one, among those they knew.

Better that than pretending, as we did just a few years ago, that a mass killing was not "the time" for politics, that our horror should impose a holiday on analysis, that we must, in a perversion of civility, pretend that nothing in our laws or culture might have saved those lives.