Sentence examples for a perverted version from inspiring English sources

They are glued down in strict typological arrangements, like a perverted version of Gerhard Richter's Atlas.

A literalist, Phelps believed that contemporary Christianity, with its emphasis on God's love, preached a perverted version of the Bible.

The rude waiter, the dismissive sales clerk, the low-ranking bureaucrat who demands still another obscure document are all playing a perverted version of a seduction game that glorifies lingering.

It's the idea that our adversaries have emerged not from some primordial darkness, but from a history that has equipped them with reasons and motives and even with a perverted version of some virtues.

"I have clearly said that we faced terrorist enemies who use a perverted version of Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people.

Murder" — an apparently perverted version of a biblical parable that prosecutors argued Thursday seems to describe his crimes to a T. Urging a judge to make Charles Severance, 54, face just one trial for all the killings, Alexandria Commonwealth's Attorney Bryan Porter argued that the eccentric onetime politico's writings outlined an undeniable connection between the crimes.

The approach developed by the U.S. Forest Service between 1910 1930 was a somewhat perverted version of Clements's work and that of his student Arthur Sampson as shaped by the agency's institutional imperative against fire (with grazing as a tool for fire suppression) and the needs of both regulators and capital for fixed stocking rates regardless of changing rainfall conditions.

It's a grotesque version of a Norman Rockwell town, with the citizens wearing pancake clown makeup and clinging to a perverted interpretation of American values enforced by an Orwellian committee headed by Jason Robards and Alvy Moore (one of the film's producers and an actor best remembered as Hank Kimball on "Green Acres").

They present a perverted interpretation of scripture to fulfill their own malicious agenda.

An untitled 1939 canvas by Frank Runacres shows a kind of perverted version of Dürer's famous print Melancholia.

You don't kick your beloved puppy to the curb because he grows old, or starts to smell, or becomes a homogenized, hyper-gentrified perverted version of itself.