All these years later, painting actually seems interesting in itself, rather than a mere perverse challenge.
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.
Not to be outdone, Gladwell challenged Booth to a new contest, involving the more obscure phrase "perverse and often baffling".
The family dynamic was perverse, with sister Cora reproducing the raging violence of the absent father while her mother made mild objections but never challenged her.
Yes, we need to challenge and confront perverse ideologies.
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.
What I did do is challenge myself to rise to the occasion and offer a full spectrum of my affinity for women, and not just the perverse side.
In scene after scene, they challenge and denounce the Islamic State's interpretations of the Quran and the Hadith, the book of the Prophet Muhammad's teachings, as factually wrong and perverse.
A third motive is the challenge (and perverse pleasure) of tackling the pitfalls, foremost of which is research.
