Sentence examples for perverse behavior from inspiring English sources

Part of the explanation for this perverse behavior is the structure of leases for the land.

One of the primary aims of psychologists and pediatricians who first defined M.S.B.P. was to ascertain a motive for such perverse behavior.

Although Rendell seems to be taking a dispassionate view of her characters' perverse behavior, she's a sly one, showing more sympathy for their pathetic fixations than for the prevailing social attitudes that condemn them.

And he concluded, "Thus, the false ex ante can become true ex post, or, as William Blake observed in his 'Proverbs of Hell': 'If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.' " Roscoe's perverse behavior makes an honest man, more or less, out of a career deceiver.

This approach makes, at times, for a curiously opaque narrative, but it also intensifies the immediacy of Ms. Sonnenberg's story, plunging readers into a sort of perpetual present tense in which we are made to experience, almost firsthand, the inexplicable and perverse behavior of an impossible woman from the point of view of her aghast, bedazzled — and immensely gifted — daughter.

Finally, they agree that he can stay as long as he controls his perverse behavior.

Meanwhile, Quagmire is forced to refrain from perverse sexual behavior or risk being driven out of the neighborhood following his arrest for spying on Lois in a ladies lavatory.

Odd Future initially made its name by being stubbornly perverse, endorsing bad behavior in songs and on the Internet.

If we fail to do so, the market will remain riddled with perverse incentives for behavior that takes advantage of even the most well-informed consumer.

Like Scotty, Bobby does not see his father's behavior as perverse.

Scott's latest stories about perverse human and animal behavior can be found in his most recent collection, Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance (Carroll & Graf) and the forthcoming The People Who Watched Her Pass By (Two Dollar Radio).