Sentence examples for perverse book from inspiring English sources

As The Journal of European Studies concluded, "This is an important, scholarly, definitive, misguided and curiously perverse book".

He published a contrarian – or perverse – book on the Korean war and, at a time when the atmosphere of American public life was at its most fevered, with communists and fellow travellers investigated by congressional committees and McCarthy's demagogic campaign at its height, he found himself a suspect, and a pariah.

A lot of people said it was the most perverse, horrible book they'd ever read," the paper quotes Desai saying recently.

Mr. Kissinger's fascinating, shrewd and sometimes perverse new book, "On China," not only addresses the central role he played in Nixon's opening to China but also tries to show how the history of China, both ancient and more recent, has shaped its foreign policy and attitudes toward the West.

There is a perverse, comic-book feel to enemies like an evil clown throwing deadly juggling clubs or a zombie fat lady throwing globs of toxic cellulite.

Foray's first book, Perverse, Adverse, and Rottenverse (2004), was a collection of humorous essays, many about language.

It may sound perverse, but the book clearly struck a chord: it became an instant bestseller.Time, pleaseCertainly a majority of American families with school-age children now lead the sort of lives described in the book.

- Bryan Cranston reads from "You Have To F**king Eat," a hilariously perverse children's book.

It's a fair comparison for Ms. Masterman to make, given both books' perverse crimes, mercifully understated detail and capacity to send more chills than thrills.

"You are not responsible for perverse readings of your book," he says.

It says a lot about the sheer, sometimes perverse fun in this book that such questions come to mind.