Sentence examples for perverse challenge from inspiring English sources

All these years later, painting actually seems interesting in itself, rather than a mere perverse challenge.

Wilde, typically perverse, challenged and conformed at the same time.

The million-dollar studio apartment, the $50 restaurant entree, the $1,000 bottle of vodka — these are a capricious city's perverse challenges to would-be Gatsbys.

Increasingly, corporations are using these perverse rules to challenge energy and climate policies, including a moratorium on fracking in Quebec, a nuclear energy phaseout and coal-fired power plant standards in Germany, and a pollution cleanup in Peru.

A third motive is the challenge (and perverse pleasure) of tackling the pitfalls, foremost of which is research.

Yes, we need to challenge and confront perverse ideologies.

This not only raises an eyebrow for its economic implications and propensity for perverse incentives; it also creates a challenge, since this quantity cannot be replicated, and therefore hedging and monetising it is not possible.

Increasingly, corporations are using these perverse rules in trade deals to challenge energy and climate policies, including a moratorium on fracking in Quebec and a nuclear energy phase-out in Germany.

America's milliners, she wrote in 1946, were "notoriously perverse folk" whose custom hats were "a challenge to psychiatrists".

This may have the perverse effect of encouraging many erroneous Batson challenges based solely on race or gender instead of more sophisticated metrics of bias.

But there's also Mr. Morris the often perverse and fascinating maker of unconventional classical ballets that challenge or reject the form's orthodoxies.