Sentence examples for perverse expression from inspiring English sources
Is his belief that he is Jewish anything other than a perverse expression of German war guilt?
Dongguan is "a perverse expression of China at its most extreme," Chang suggests; it is polluted, chaotic and corrupt, but jostling also with a generation of strivers who are unashamed of their ambition and astonishingly indifferent to risk.
"Such writings are not only a perverse expression of anti-Semitism but also an aggression against the dead, the survivors, and society at large," Roger Errera, a member of the Conseil d'État, has written in defense of his court's decisions.
It was really kind of reactionary in that sense a perverse expression of a desirable and lost cultural tradition, filling people with longing for a family like that, a father who not only knew what was best but, if a guy was giving you a hard time, could have someone kill him".
There are juxtapositions like this throughout Emily's scenes — perverse expressions of parental love alternating with the depressing reality of Emily's obvious unhappiness.
Impunity is the expression most perverse of injustice.
At times, Staley's value system seems perverse: the raw thought being prized over the polished expression.
The leader echoed its sister title, the Times, which last Thursday described the system of state-backed regulation as "inimical to freedom of expression" and said section 40 would create "perverse incentives" for the rich to intimidate the press.
With pervasive cultural attitudes that consider gay and lesbian people to be both pathological and perverse, it is unsurprising that such laws specifically prohibit expressions of same-sex relationships.
Teller (1995: ch. 5) argues that the expression quantum field is only justified on a "perverse reading" of the notion of a field, since no definite physical values whatsoever are assigned to space-time points.
Facebook's "Like" button got some key support as an expression of speech when an appellate court overturned a perverse lower court ruling that had ruled clicking a button wasn't the same as saying something out loud.
