Sentence examples for perverse form of 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.

They call for hard questions to be asked about "the perverse form of capitalism" that governments appear committed to on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bryan Robson had recently joined Man United for a similar fee, so perhaps Daley was the victim of a perverse form of oneupmanship.

To argue that we are powerless to change the political environment in the face of irrational fanaticism is a perverse form of defeatism.

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

Where the state falls short in accommodating space for religion in public life, tension can give way to perverse forms of Islamist movements, such as ISIL.

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].

This French penchant for abstraction appears in most paradoxical (and perverse) form in the absence of precise statistical information about their Maghrebi minorities, as it is illegal to collect data about ethnicity and religion in France.

grants her a perverse kind of freedom.

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