Sentence examples for perverse form from inspiring English sources

Every election year, candidates for office engage in a perverse form of theater.

Censorship involves a perverse form of flattery, and in many countries classical music has lost the power to provoke.

True to its perverse form, the all-male group, now aged 25 to 42, named its first commercial recording "Silence".

Madeley is convinced it was simply the sins of the fathers being visited on the son; another perverse form of vengeance.

We should be careful not to fall victim to a perverse form of Stockholm syndrome, coming to sympathise with the corporate kidnappers of our democracy.

Regional autonomy brought with it a perverse form of peer-group pressure in which each government wanted to build whatever the neighbours had, says Antonio Muñoz Molina, a writer who used to be a municipal official in Granada.

A dire puritan legacy, going back to the Elizabethans, still poisoned the 20th century in perverse forms, such as Bloomsbury intellectualism, which Lawrence thought was as cold and unconnected to the dirty flow of existence as the Midlands industrialist forcing thousands of workers to live in ugly, hope-murdering slums.

Structural violence includes "a host of offensives against human dignity: extreme and relative poverty, social inequalities ranging from racism to gender inequality, and the more perverse forms of violence that are uncontestably human rights abuses" [ 21].

Torturing the body and mind to the limits of endurance is a perverse art form that's often refined to its highest degree by authorities in prison.

"Macho" gender violence has taken on perverse new forms and entered new spaces in Argentina.

It is intended as a perverse transcendence, a form of negative creation.