Sentence examples for and a perversion of from inspiring English sources

M.B. from Texas, January 2002: You have offered nothing to civilization but hate and a perversion of Islam for hundreds of years.

The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.

By 1503 he was a master in the Guild of St . Lukeand a force in Antwerp Mannerism, the fabulously cluttered, tightly wound High Gothic style that was both a continuation and a perversion of the chaste, orderly stillness of van Eyck.

Villaraigosa, who raised millions of dollars from donors with an interest in public business when he was an elected official, said the huge sums of money that White House contenders from both parties are raising were "a distortion and a perversion of the Democratic process".

Louis Agassiz, a great 19th century scientist now in the US Hall of Fame, thought social equality between black and white a "practical impossibility" and intermarriage "a perversion of every natural sentiment".

Carr persuaded him to kill Mrs Davies with the offer of £1,500 and "by a perversion of the allegations" being made by the victim, he said.

And it's a perversion of alleged free-market thinking to suggest otherwise.

And it's a perversion of the tort system, which is supposed to put the onus on the parties most able to make sure things are done right.

While belief in a god may be consistent with a belief in evolution, using one as a defense of the other takes both ideas out of their relevant contexts and amounts to a perversion of both.

The ethical principles espoused by the Trump campaign include the idea that misogynistic speech can be dismissed as "entertainment," that celebrity confers entitlement ("when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything"), and that having and sharing sexual assault fantasies is a perversion of no consequence if confined to the "locker room" or the bus.

Though his account of the power of cruelty provides a convincing critique of our social, political and personal hypocrisies, it does not critique the ways that cruelty is a perversion of freedom and an exploitation of the vulnerability of the flesh.