Sentence examples for perverse ideas from inspiring English sources

They'd think, 'Isn't it nice he's reading!' and I'd be getting even more perverse ideas".

Instead of writing a great Tolstoyan novel about America that would "speak to one's time" and capture the social and political pulse of the nation, he increasingly produced tendentious novels that were scaffolds for his eccentric, sometimes perverse ideas about violence and sex and power, what he once called "the mysteries of murder, suicide, incest, orgy, orgasm and Time".

People then asked for the resignation of the government that had the perverse idea to appoint him.

Perhaps it's a perverse idea for a frugal traveler, but the Miami area abounds with courses, from chichi country clubs to public links.

But another perverse idea floating around Capitol Hill is to limit stimulus-related purchases to countries that have signed the World Trade Organisation's agreement on government procurement.

Mr. Jackson said today that the suggestion he pressured companies to contract with certain businesses or donate to his groups was "a perverse idea from an unclear mind".

Martin Shapland, the chair of Liberal Youth, who said he succeeded without preferential treatment due to his race, said: "Pursuing discrimination to end discrimination is a perverse idea".

If making the books more costly to libraries seems a perverse idea, consider that the paperback edition of a book provides an artificially costly experience for its buyers too, in terms of waiting time.

The operator of an online eyeglasses store — with the perverse idea that terrorizing his customers would generate Internet publicity about his business and improve his Google search ranking — was sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of fraud and sending threatening communications, writes David Segal, who profiled the man, Vitaly Borker, in 2010.

One site devoted to Delle, The Jeremy Story, published a 2009 letter attributed to Delle's father, recounting years' worth of trinkets and notes left at his son's grave site, as well as calls and e-mails "from young teen-agers with some perverse idea that what he did was really cool".

If it doesn't merit a place, with "Weekend" and "Band of Outsiders," on the Godard's Greatest Hits compilation — a perverse idea, I know, but an appropriate one for just that reason — it is still a great lost B side, a time capsule whose half-strength doses of Godardian self-contradiction, self-consciousness and provocation remain surprisingly fresh.