Sentence examples for perverse attempt from inspiring English sources
As much as anything else, the false top at 1001 was an early and, according to many, perverse attempt to undermine it.
Even Richard Nixon found it useful to quote a few lines from a Lincoln speech, although they were deployed in a rather self-serving, and ultimately perverse, attempt to justify his role in the Watergate scandal.
But Kuusisto and Stefanovich's self-indulgent performance seemed a perverse attempt to turn the sonata into a succession of slow movements, in which the latter's sparing use of vibrato made a tendency to play on the sharp side of the piano's pitch distracting.
But the British delegation to the OPCW called Russia's request for a joint probe a "perverse" attempt by Moscow to evade scrutiny.
Hugo's novel is partly an account of the archdeacon's perverse attempts to retain his fading powers.
There is something strange, almost perverse, about the attempt to start over and find enlightenment on the comedy scene, portrayed in the documentary as cutthroat and dispiriting.
On this Facebook says it does not "generally" return money to an advertiser when it discovers a policy violation — claiming this "would seem perverse" given the attempt to deceive users.
It is now widely accepted that monetary policy has reached its limits, and may, via the effect on savers, be having a perverse impact on attempts to boost demand.
His newspapers campaigned against over-mighty monopolists and corrupt machine politicians with such success that, in a Journal editorial on new year's eve 1899, he felt able to declare that "Government by newspaper will be realised in the 20th century".If he really believed that, it was perverse of him to attempt a career in politics.
Along the way, too, there are perverse innovations in executions: attempts to hang multiple murderers simultaneously, scaffolds designed with trap doors, for easy execution, and hanging machines patented for their ability to lurch upward instead of dropping downward.
APHRODISIAC by Rob Handel A tragedy disguised as a comedy, "Aphrodisiac" concerns the adult children of a disgraced congressman who perform perverse drama therapy as they attempt to understand their father's indiscretions.
