Sentence examples for perverse ingenuity from inspiring English sources
Oliver Wendell Holmes, a 19th-century physician and man of letters, once described homeopathy as "a mingled mass of perverse ingenuity, of tinsel erudition, of imbecile credulity and of artful misrepresentation".
It is possible to appreciate Mr. Zulawski's perverse ingenuity, and to miss his eye and voice, without quite succumbing to the strenuous charms and overcooked provocations of "Cosmos". The film — which is opening in New York at the Metrograph, a young art house with a studied, old-fashioned vibe — feels more like a revival than a new release.
Yeah, of course you remember it, it was simultaneously the most crushingly miserable story ever told, and the most remarkable tale of perverse ingenuity.
He deemed homeopathy, the subject of his third lecture, "the pretended science" that was a "mingled mass of perverse ingenuity, of tinsel erudition, of imbecile credulity, and of artful misrepresentation, too often mingled in practice".
In the globally diffuse art world, something is occurring again here in a most 21st-century way, as local ingenuity and the perverse charm of this city's working-class vibe are drawing artists who are using a sophisticated digital presence to project their work around the world.
"The root cause of income inequality, viewed in the most general terms, is extreme human ingenuity, albeit of a perverse kind," Cohen wrote in an article for The American Interest earlier this year.
As he wrote to me: "I love the ingenuity that goes into trying to think of the most perverse things you can do within the game that the designers would have never intended or foreseen someone trying.
What follows is an intensely perverse game of hide-and-seek, with Joan and her son finding sanctuary in spots of varying ingenuity.
It would have been perverse to cut many, many more NPOs only for lots to be funded afterwards via lottery grant streams, using their ingenuity on transforming into project-funded organisations rather than on their arts work.
One might consider this ingenuity of a type, but when it comes to applications beyond games this sort of ingenuity can lead to perverse outcomes.
