Sentence examples for perverse longing from inspiring English sources
I no longer go to the theatre hoping to be informed or entertained, but with a perverse longing to see just how bad a Bollywood film can be.
At the heart of "Vertigo" is the perverse longing of a middle-aged San Francisco man, Scottie James Stewartt), for the face, hair, and body of a vague, plush beauty played by Kim Novak.
It's worth noting that at such moments her writing is often its most poetic, as if "this perverse longing to berate myself" is the true source of her art — at least in the early years.
And this insight at HBO is daring: Once, long ago, or so the novels tell us, it was individuals who used to worry about their oddness and perverse longings.
In a play of 1855, "Le Mariage d'Olympe," Émile Augier referred to nostalgia as a perverse, retrospective longing for hard times.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
It was really kind of reactionary in that sense a perverse expression of a desirable and lost cultural tradition, filling people with longing for a family like that, a father who not only knew what was best but, if a guy was giving you a hard time, could have someone kill him".
(Sisario) NELLIE MCKAY AND THE ARISTOCRATS SWING BAND (Tuesday) Nellie McKay's plucky, piano-based lounge-pop is delightfully perverse, nodding to Liz Phair as much as to Billie Holiday; she is persistently un-precious, eschewing songs about love and longing for screeds about identity theft and pet adoption.
Libraries generate longing.
