Sentence examples similar to on perverse grounds from inspiring English sources

First, it is impossible for all of the attitudes of one's rational nature to be "thoroughly false and perverse and grounded on a thoroughly false and perverse object".

Most memorably, he talks about how pointless the war in Iraq often seems to men on the ground — a perverse Groundhog Day loop (so unlike his grandfather's war) in which there is no destination, no progress: "We'd go back into a city that had fought this battle yearly; a slow, bloody parade in fall to mark the change of season.

Either that, or you'd have to face the truth that the man calling the shots for your team is a right-wing Republican, who, on strictly ideological grounds, likes doing perverse and irrational things and then pretending that they make sense.

But on what grounds?

On what grounds?

Q: On what grounds?

"On what grounds?" he asked.

"It was on humanitarian grounds".

Released last summer on compassionate grounds.

If so, on what grounds?

Never fight on school grounds.