Sentence examples for perverse attitude from inspiring English sources

For a man who has made his career out of conjuring up literary life stories, Peter Ackroyd appears to have a curiously perverse attitude to his own.

The barbaric deal our government struck with the foul Beijing regime to lock up the two giant pandas simply reveals Scotland's perverse attitude to wildlife.

But consider the facts: this scandal is not merely the sexual abuse of children by a handful of pedophiles within the church; it is also the systematic cover-up of this abuse, the hypocrisy of condemning homosexuality while maintaining a heavily gay priesthood, the sexism inherent in an all-male hierarchy and the perverse attitude of the church toward all things sexual.

A judge has criticised as "perverse" the attitude of some head teachers after the murder of four-year-old Daniel Pelka.

OK, sure, it might seem a little perverse reviving a film whose attitude towards race was so bad that it sparked protests 30 years ago.

It is up to us to change this old, Hollywood-like, long-outdated attitude and curiously perverse perspective.

But the package is classy, even classical; the performances are good; and the attitude is just perverse enough for the show..

(Perverse) enjoyment of administration.

Mackie says that even when she was a student there wasn't the same attitude to alcohol, calling university-drinking culture "perverse".

Moir's creation – Vic Reeves – was a perverse version of a "light-ent" compere but with the attitudes and self-belief borrowed from a rock star.

It is common sense.Beyond victimhoodA new attitude also means recognising that the old policies have had a perverse effect: the huge gains that blacks have experienced since the Civil Rights Act have been unevenly distributed.