Sentence examples for perverse look from inspiring English sources

"He was basically this slightly rotund guy with gammy teeth, halitosis and a slightly perverse look in his eye," says Porter.

Officer Torres wore aviator sunglasses the whole time, while Postrelko sat two feet away from Matt during his deposition, staring him down with a perverse look on his face.

Someone like Ballard takes everyday things and looks at them through a perverse looking glass, stretches them and warps them.

It may seem perverse to look a gift horse in the smacker.

Growing up in Rimini, Italy, he was taught by nuns dressed in the sorts of flaring wimples that so often were mirrored in his films; one was a bespectacled creature who in the director's perverse recollection, "looked like Harold Lloyd".

Though this decision did seem slightly perverse when, looking back over the year's reviews, I noted an unprecedented amount of coverage of pretty much anything but drama – in marked contrast to, say, 1999, when I started my TV-reviewing career and when the big drama of the week, whether a one-off mini-series or a soap episode, was invariably the cornerstone of a review.

So why would thousands of youngsters politically motivated enough to come out on the streets for Momentum and pay to join Labour support a leader who can't command the support of his own MPs? Perhaps, the theory goes, what might look perverse is in fact rational self-interest.

I found a perverse urge to look up my rapist.

RJR's share price barely budged when the announcement came, on March 9th, that the company which makes Camel cigarettes and Oreo cookies was selling its international tobacco subsidiary and planned to split its domestic cigarette and food businesses.On the face of it this lack of enthusiasm looks perverse.

At first the casting of Rowan Atkinson looks perverse.

Now the perverse Mr Chirac looks set to prove their original point.