Sentence examples for perverse comfort from inspiring English sources

Fighter jets occasionally swept overhead, first instilling fear, then perverse comfort.

Some Democrats take a kind of perverse comfort in the fact that Trump is banging this drum again.

Mr. Mosher, who oversaw the superb revival of Arthur Miller's "View From the Bridge" last season, isn't about to undermine this drama's perverse comfort factor.

Ken has quoted polls to claim the support of Londoners, as if we should take a perverse comfort that debating Holocaust metaphors has become this week's media hype.

That will add to the misery of European leaders enduring this week's petrol crisis.Still, they might find some perverse comfort in news that the tables are about to be turned on their tormentors.

And though the ending of chapter 21 may seem a cop out, and certainly lacks the ironic sting of chapter 20's final words ("I was cured all right"), the reader can, perhaps, gain some perverse comfort from signs that Alex doesn't appear wholly at ease with his reformed self: "And so farewell from your little droog.

And it's why the end of the cold war was bewildering – there was a perverse comfort to be had living in the shadow of mutually assured destruction, a comfort that many Americans evidently still miss if the popularity of Donald Trump's sabre-rattling is anything to go by.

Surprisingly, the site is also a hit with users, who take perverse comfort in seeing that support staffers can be equally clueless.