Sentence examples for perverse gain from inspiring English sources

So far, the region has benefited from the twin windfalls of low labour costs—a perverse gain from communist mismanagement and fast economic integration with the rich half of the continent.

Any discovery that homosexuality is learned makes LGB people look extravagant, putting their lives at risk for perverse gain.

If this is the case, the CMN lays itself open to being subject to a perverse toxic-gain-of-function if the mercury in the astrocyte then causes an excitotoxic insult to the CMN via excess glutamate [ 32- 34] or via the onset of neuroinflammation [ 35].

And though the ending of chapter 21 may seem a cop out, and certainly lacks the ironic sting of chapter 20's final words ("I was cured all right"), the reader can, perhaps, gain some perverse comfort from signs that Alex doesn't appear wholly at ease with his reformed self: "And so farewell from your little droog.

It is common sense.Beyond victimhoodA new attitude also means recognising that the old policies have had a perverse effect: the huge gains that blacks have experienced since the Civil Rights Act have been unevenly distributed.

The city gained some perverse currency when on an episode of "The Simpsons" the winner of a gross-out contest earned a trip to Hartford, but only a downtrodden place can take civic pride in being mocked on national television.

For three decades the Richelieu of art history in Britain, maker and breaker of reputations, curator of the queen's pictures and the premier teacher of scholars and gallery directors, Blunt was also, for almost 20 years, a Soviet spy, one of a group recruited at Cambridge that has gained a perverse celebrity.

"Unlike the banks, you don't have massive, perverse incentives for short-term gain".

There is no efficiency gain in such perverse procedures that are needed to divvy up the wealth.

Cursing and cajoling the men in Spanish, the elder cleaning woman gains an almost perverse pleasure in being totally ignored until she gets to Mr. Samuelson's office, that is.

(Gerson again: "Trump gained a kind of perverse energy from the rolling waves of hatred").