Sentence examples for perverse feature from inspiring English sources

Jon Lee Anderson: I don't know many wars in modern times that don't involve the blurring of the lines you speak of; it is a perverse feature of most conflicts — look at what just happened in Sri Lanka — that civilians are the battlefield rather than the great green open fields of yesteryear, where soldiers met and killed one another in orderly orgies of death.

But in recent years the magazine has gone specifically for racist and Islamophobic provocations, and its numerous anti-Islam images have been inventively perverse, featuring hook-nosed Arabs, bullet-ridden Korans, variations on the theme of sodomy, and mockery of the victims of a massacre.

One of Communism's most perverse features was the politicizing of all private choices and the totalitarian insistence that liberalism and capitalism were always and everywhere absolutely evil, that collectivism and Communism were good by definition, that the rights of the individual counted not at all.

Firmly established as cinema's go-to-guru for the grotesque and perverse, his feature films such as Lunacy and Conspirators of Pleasure have introduced audiences to a singular, slanted world of European decay.

But sooner or later you'll discover a slightly perverse anti-feature.

McCarthy's very NSFW work, which Poppers described as "holding up a mirror to a perverse world," features graphic and disturbing imagery depicting masturbation, simulated sex, incestuous scenarios and rape fantasies.

Two of his books, "Along Came a Spider" and "Roses Are Red," have made it to the screen as high-strung, fashionably perverse thrillers that feature nonsensical denouements and an emphasis on sadism toward female characters.

It shows that perverse 9/11 imagery featuring Kryptonian eye lasers definitely melting steel beams is so omnipresent in these movies that they aren't even special enough to save for the third act.

There are surprising stylistic nods to Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon, but Mr. Schneider is also still balancing the odd and perverse: the record features both a gorgeously straightforward reading of "Tomorrow," from the musical "Annie," and a double-entendre-laden love song with a title unfit to print.

Though it features perverse gross-out scenes and a villain with a superficially pedantic motive behind his crimes (his victims, if they survive, have learned to appreciate life more), it lacks the finesse and polish of the David Fincher film".

The president's plan also features the perverse logic that we should turn the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into a sprawling oil field and then invest the proceeds in land conservation and renewable energy research.