One of the perverse elements in the news coverage of primaries and caucuses is that the better you are doing, the less attention it might get.
The enduring mystery of "Island of Lost Souls" is how these variously perverse elements were so well and suggestively blended together by Erle C. Kenton, a director known mainly for comedies.
This is one of the most perverse elements of copyright law: the reality that loving something doesn't confer any right to make it a part of your creative life.
One of the most perverse and alarming elements of this subculture is an animated newscast series called The Daily Capper, which covers the exploits and stories that develop inside this playground for pedophiles.
In one strange letter of 1925, Maria writes to her: 'Aldous has just come into my bed & he smelt so strongly of you still that it made one giddy.' This would be perverse enough without the element of fantasy added by distance in time and space.
Here's what I do know: You are descended from the most base and perverse of the criminal element in England.
When we mutter "Typical!" we are expressing annoyance and resentment, but also a sort of grudging, humourous forbearance – and there is even an element of perverse satisfaction: we may have been inconvenienced by the rain and the endless queues, but we have not been taken unawares.
When we mutter "Typical!" we are expressing annoyance and resentment, but also a sort of grudging, humorous forbearance and there is even an element of perverse satisfaction: we may have been inconvenienced by the rain and the endless queues, but we have not been taken unawares.
These lapses — explained away as mere accidents — look almost like elements of a perverse scheme in which the I.M.F. is trying to artificially create a "bailoutable" region, big enough to be relevant, but small enough to still be within the saving powers of — guess who — the I.M.F.
There was real love in that show, but also a perverse darkness – Bryan made those two elements work in harmony.
