Sentence examples for highly perverse from inspiring English sources

Moreover, there is a highly perverse downside.

But in literature you tend to come across the usual character types: either the bureaucrats such as Eichmann, or the highly perverse caricature of a Nazi.

This is a highly perverse result.

This time around, I was struck by the perverse and highly effective way in which Golding aligns himself with his monstrous schoolboys.

Casting against type is one thing, but casting the Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, with her Nordic good looks and cool, reserved temperament, as the dark, hotblooded Gypsy Carmen, seemed highly implausible, if not perverse.

Jes Battis praised the father/son dynamics and described as "highly dramatic and (engagingly perverse)".

I first read Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure when I was 17, and I was captivated by his portrait of this perverse, free-thinking, vacillating, highly emotional, highly intelligent and ill-fated woman.

Joanna Kavenna is one of the recent "Best of Young British" Granta selections, and her satire, Come to the Edge, a Cold Comfort Farm for the new millennium, makes perfect summer reading: pointed, perverse, perceptive – and highly entertaining.

It will only do so when the sanction is shown to be "obviously unreasonable or perverse" and even Suarez's highly-paid lawyers were only able to demonstrate this to an extent.

This is the paradox of insider trading compliance for issuers: ambiguity in the law combined with the threat of stiff reputational and legal sanctions creates a perverse incentive to adopt compliance programs that are highly inefficient and costly to shareholders.

"Magic Dance" is a perverse song to write about as a favourite – highly camp and ridiculous and anchored by those synth stabs that sound fantastically dated now.