Sentence examples for is a perversity from inspiring English sources

The answer to that question is a perversity that takes various mental forms, all of them extreme.

It is a perversity of art that, as art, what we see is likely to be apprehended in purely, or primarily, aesthetic terms.

There is a perversity in the way Conservatives see their best chance for victory in a quasi-presidential election campaign, focusing on the two main party leaders, when few of them expect Cameron would even survive a full second term.

But what really underlay the contradiction between what he thought and what he was, I now think, after a quarter-century's reflection, is a perversity of human nature so deep that it is almost a law — the Law of the Mental Mirror Image.

Although that may sound perverse, and I suppose it is, it's a perversity that has a long lineage in French culture (Baudelaire, Lautréamont) and that may be viewed as itself a kind of mask: beneath the facade there is, often, an essentially religious reverence for reality, in all its sometimes appalling manifestations.

"In Cain's work there's a perversity of the imagination that's really exciting," Mr. Raymond said.

There is a peculiar perversity about the way city men name their country places.

Mr. Tang recognizes that there is a certain perversity in returning to restaurant work at this point in his family's history.

There is a slight perversity here, because plans for the recording proved a sore spot for the Berlin Philharmonic in its hiring of Sir Simon as music director.

Most prominent is a consistent perversity of form and image, details and combinations that make you look or think twice and that inextricably link her to the Surrealists.

It is a horrific perversity if the measure of our national wealth performs a celebratory leap every time our children and loved ones are shot down.