Sentence examples for perverse delight from inspiring English sources
Yet Hamlet has already shown a perverse delight in linking words and phrases that ought to remain opposed.
At the age of 77, he may take some perverse delight in his power to hold coalition governments hostage.
Morrison took perverse delight in starting riots at Doors concerts and also enjoyed falling out of windows and tumbling several storeys to the cold, hard ground.
Older listeners, on the other hand, may take a perverse delight in hearing Beethoven with accordion, Dvorak with banjo, Tchaikovsky with panpipes and the like.
Hannah takes a perverse delight in giving her lover "the old-heave-ho, the push, the sack" - using three devil-may-care idioms to emphasise her heedlessness.
The beautiful aren't expected to do ugly things, and audiences wriggle with perverse delight when they do; McConaughey seems to understand this, and has excelled in roles where he subverts his own face and body.
With no Internet back then, I had to wait for the next day's Boston Globe to find out that England had predictably lost, on penalties (also predictably). But what scarred me most was the bar owners: Not only did they refuse to change the channel for two desperate English soccer fans, but they took a perverse, sadistic delight in doing so.
Druett descends on the gory tidbits and operatic tableaus with a cheeky tone that seems to acknowledge our own perverse fascination -- delight, even -- with atrocities and hardships that would make Melville's or Hemingway's sea dogs buckle.
(An imp of the cinematic perverse, Mr. Rivette surely delights in the fact that "Noli me tangere" is a Latin phrase meaning "Touch me not").
Among the many perverse diversions and delights of Jesse Kellerman's unnerving new thriller, TROUBLE (Putnam, $24.95), are his clinically detailed descriptions of all the variables that could drive a third-year medical student like Jonah Stem crazy.
They position themselves as outsiders, marked by their suits, their professed conservatism, their delight in perverse and sometimes outrageous opinion.
