Impatient readers risk taking away from the book only those passages where he is at his simplest — moments of political pique, for instance, where he rails against "the case histories of perversion that pass for modern literature and theater".
To Edwin H. Stier, who was director of the division of criminal justice under two governors, Brendan Byrne and Thomas H. Kean, public corruption cases involve "some kind of perversion of public authority or the misuse of public assets".
Bennett Miller's movie depicts an outlying case of a system's perversion by a person who is partly malevolent and partly deranged — but it also shows a system that leaves itself open to abuse.
Bennett Miller's movie depicts an outlying case of a system's perversion by a person who is partly malevolent and partly deranged but it also shows a system that leaves itself open to abuse.
Putting someone to death whose guilt is uncertain is always perverted, but there's an extra dose of perversion in this case.
It was, as "Lenny Cooke" makes painfully clear in almost 90 minutes of unvarnished access, a case of attitudinal and cultural perversions, the misunderstanding that talent alone is a winning lottery ticket.
"This has been a case about the perversion of the system of justice by one man," the prosecutor, Steve Jory, said.
There were no images of perversion.
The science of perversion is decades behind the rest of the field.
"There are hints of perversion, unspeakable acts, not just of elegance and style".
