Sentence examples for perverse about from inspiring English sources

There is something extraordinarily perverse about this.

There was nothing perverse about his interest in Eastern philosophy.

There's something wonderfully perverse about that; perhaps even obscene.

There was something perverse about the cult of virility.

There is something perverse about linking these two matters (patriarchy and child abuse).

G. Morris What's perverse about public education choice is the extreme hypercompetitiveness involved.

Float hopes Not quite settled Patchwork planet Some like it hot ReprintsSome worry about perverse consequences if SIFIs are assumed to be less likely to fail because they hold more capital, will be watched more closely and will have been officially certified as too important to go under.

In the end, the most perverse thing about Crazy, Stupid, Love. is its punctuation.

Los Angeles sends perverse signals about water use that will come back to haunt it; Manhattan (like Venice) has an interest in downplaying the risk of truly catastrophic floods.

Instead of writing a great Tolstoyan novel about America that would "speak to one's time" and capture the social and political pulse of the nation, he increasingly produced tendentious novels that were scaffolds for his eccentric, sometimes perverse ideas about violence and sex and power, what he once called "the mysteries of murder, suicide, incest, orgy, orgasm and Time".

There are perverse reveries about nameless women who are half Virgin Mary, half Belle Dame Sans Merci: "You are the only form that does not radiate tedium, because you change with our feelings, because, in kissing our joy, you cradle our grief and tedium, you are the opium that comforts and the sleep that brings rest, and the death that gently folds our hands on our breast".