Sentence examples for perverse manner from inspiring English sources

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Owen Coyle expects nothing less than some good old-fashioned abuse from the Burnley supporters tonight when he leads his Bolton Wanderers side out against his former club, and, in a perverse manner, he will see it as a badge of respect and entirely of his own doing.

Remade from a somewhat more interesting — perhaps because French — film called "Nathalie," "Chloe" tells the story of a middle-aged couple whose marital crisis is both exacerbated and, in a perverse manner, resolved by the prostitute who gives the movie its name.

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Whether Bernhard thought of himself as a Murau, disposing of his estate in as perverse a manner as possible, or as a Roithamer, destroying the eccentric edifice that was his life's work, the verbal echo must surely have brought him a mordant satisfaction.

Fan participation at concerts is thus important; during the movement's first heyday, it was often provoked in an adversarial manner—apparently perverse, but appropriately "punk".

P. M. Forni, a founder of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, which focuses on manners and social behavior, agrees that piling on can be fun, in a perverse sort of way.

Further, we suggest that real cost to health care payers of drugs in CA and P4P should be made publicly available in a systematic manner, to avoid a perverse impact of these MAA types on the international reference pricing system.

Her 15 new pieces continue to be polymorphously perverse hybrids; they combine references to painting, all manner of decorative arts (from carved jade to upholstery), cartoons, the figure and architecture, while also deploying breathtaking bits of trompe l'oeil.

We shuffled out the exits while the sun hung low in the sky, illuminating the teens' adult attire in a manner that made it, and them, appear even more perverse.

The second major generic challenge relates to managing the risks associated with specific indicator development, most critically the risk of creating perverse incentives that skew behaviour of those whose performance is being assessed in a manner not predicted or desired by those responsible for defining performance measures.

His career in the national marketplace had had its start in 1955 with "I Got a Woman," and reached its climax with "What'd I Say?," which seemed to combine all the energy of the most shameless rock and roll with the real energy of the blues in a manner that was knowing without being cynical and was eclectic without being weak or perverse.

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