Sentence examples for perverse habit from inspiring English sources

In another camp is a group of more orthodox economists who argue that this perverse habit is largely an illusion in the eyes of certain researchers.

Sadly for tennis lovers, indoor tennis has a perverse habit of flourishing when the city's fortunes are down, and floundering when the city does well.

By Robert Graves The New Yorker, March 14 , 1953P. 38 A perverse habit of cat goddesses- View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Emily Nussbaum By Jia Tolentino.

At this year's festival, where "The Barbarian Invasions" will be shown tonight and tomorrow, there will still be a lot of dirty talk, but the subject this time is the dwindling of the life force and the perverse habit of history to keep moving wherever it chooses in spite of the attempts by small bands of intellectuals to influence its direction.

Despite their perverse habit of speaking our language fluently, Americans employ its vocabulary in radically different ways.

That idea remains controversial in some circles — at every Shostakovich performance, I encountered a few people shaking their heads over his inclination toward grandiosity and brutality, his perverse manipulations of form, his habit of freezing harmonic movement while a seemingly trivial motif repeats maniacally — but the rest of the audience thundered its assent.

That idea remains controversial in some circles at every Shostakovich performance, I encountered a few people shaking their heads over his inclination toward grandiosity and brutality, his perverse manipulations of form, his habit of freezing harmonic movement while a seemingly trivial motif repeats maniacally but the rest of the audience thundered its assent.

"Second, for some perverse reason, he has made a habit of sticking a finger in the eyes of California.

The rapacious habits of fishermen and perverse effects of the subsidies some extract from governments are well known.

I acknowledge that this goal is very optimistic, given the paternalism of the medical profession, the poor health habits of most Americans and the perverse incentives of our health care system.

And if Detroit's slipping into bad old habits wasn't distressing enough, the bailouts have created a perverse new dynamic.