It was never made explicit — the idea of a hard-core version of "Plastic Man" boggles the mind — but there was a polymorphously perverse quality to a character who personified Georges Bataille's notion of the body on the brink of dissolving its borders.
Looking back, she insisted that everything she did was "my own damn business", and that mysterious, perverse blend of character and genius produced the peerless body of work thankfully preserved in her recordings.
In its sixth season, "Mad Men" is in certain ways an even more ambitious show than it was at the start, with an idiosyncratic, legitimately perverse sense of character and plot.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people".
And as the 60's progress and Looby grows up, he revivifies the defunct Derby as a perverse underground-comix character named the Imp Eugene, and becomes a counterculture hero in his adopted city of San Francisco.
Throughout, what a magnificent, perverse and admirable character Grès turns out to be, deserving of our pity at the end of her life, never having asked for our affection.
Mr. Berg, in his 2008 book, "All You Can Eat," compared the mayor's position to the standpoint of Charles Trevelyan, the British officer in charge of famine relief during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s; he blamed the poor and their "selfish, perverse and turbulent character" for their own plight.
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.
His Cyrano is in this same understated vein, a seemingly perverse choice for a character who hymns his own panache.
She brought a perverse openness to her character; Jenny was shaped not only by her confined circumstances but also by her considerable intelligence in a conventional world — and by her passion for the dark side of experience.
