December 26 2015 January 24 201616 More perverse than some, if less bloody than most, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's Jacobean tragedy, set in Spain, concerns a churchgoing miss who contrives to have her betrothed killed and then develops a sexual obsession with the disfigured murderer.
In the current confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, these same concerns create a perverse set of incentives: whenever the U.S. says things that make a military conflict with Iran seem more likely, the price of oil rises, strengthening Iran's regime rather than weakening it.
Even more perverse is who's benefiting.
Yet the opposite position is more perverse.
The logic of politics, however, is more perverse.
Spelling in the early Soviet Union was even more perverse.
She seemed, he said in explaining the choice, "like a Lolita, but more perverse".
The vote appears even more perverse, now that committee chairmen are to be paid.
One of the more perverse symptoms of this despair was extremism: inarticulate, devastating, and violent.
Tolstoy's tale is wilder, stranger and more perverse than Ms. Harris's version.
