Sentence examples for perverse inclination from inspiring English sources

St Martin-in-the-Fields is also difficult to object to unless you've a perverse inclination against its unexceptionable architecture and illustrious history of beneficence.

His more perverse inclinations led him to an expertise in the particular grotesqueries of carnival sideshows; he can swallow swords and eat glass.

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.

The play, running through July 1 at the Hartford Stage, turns out to be an act of both perverse generosity and decided chutzpah, since Ms. Redgrave barely knew her grandmother and her grandmother had no apparent inclination to know her.

MacDermott and MacGough, like the older British duo Gilbert and George, are conceptual and performance artists, and the exhibition, with its stagey references to period style and its inclination to treat ferociously loaded emblems as kitsch, could, I suppose, be taken as a perverse charade.

Or inclination.

Very perverse.

Sheer inclination also matters.