Sentence examples for perverse amount from inspiring English sources

Then comes the check and, soon after, the rash of rationalizations — your buddy is probably going to have only one bachelor party, your company is footing the bill — that justify blowing the perverse amount of money you've just blown on a meal that required little more than a cook's bringing the half-cow you ordered (but didn't finish) to the appropriate degree of underdoneness.

It was a perverse amount of meat — enough to slay a tableful of hungry eaters and send everyone home with a to-go pack of smoky 'cue — and even with gas money figured in it was wildly cheaper than anything in the city.

Absent were any obvious incentives for amassing perverse amounts of money (and thus there was more time for the languorous lunch).

Others, like Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, in an interview with Reuters, called the program "very badly flawed" and said it offered "perverse incentives" that amounted "to robbery of the American people".

As someone with a mother's Lone Star blood flowing through his otherwise anemic northeastern veins, I write this with no small amount of perverse pride.

It might sound perverse to invest large amounts in anything at all right now but Trezona argues that today's economic problems should not put anyone off.

This amounts to a perverse, redistributive policy that takes money away from someone who would get a job (and does not) toward someone who has a job.

In the perverse logic of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., this amounted to "discriminating among individual students based on race".

Conservative MP Mark Garnier explained that regulators have already done a "huge amount of work... on the bonus structure" so that the "perverse outcomes" of bonuses are removed.

If the Fed had not taken the step it did, the central bank's balance sheet would have gradually shrunk, which would amount to a passive tightening of monetary policy — what Mr. Bernanke called "a perverse outcome".

The 11+ was seen as some perverse rite of passage for many and I can remember my mother explaining to me the amount of tutoring some of the other children in my school had in order to secure places.