Sentence examples for perverse methods from inspiring English sources

The concomitant use of a particular substance, or indeed of other, equally perverse methods like exorbitantly priced intensive SAT prep courses, is a mere symptom of a social epidemic among overly competitive parents.

Another commentator, in Le Figaro, called the program an act of "political correctness" that embraced the American approach just when the United States was coming to realize the "perverse effects" of such methods.

This method had the perverse effect in some competitive workplaces of pitting colleagues against one another. .

This valuation method can occasionally seem perverse but has a real world justification; if a company wants to shed its pension liability, it can do so via a buyout with an insurance company.

It was here that Hoffman came up with a novel method of portraying the perverse relish which his character takes in beating an intruder to death (off-screen) with a poker.

However this method may have the perverse effect of incentivising managers to focus their efforts on raising share prices in the short-term.

Some rules seemed perverse: Greenmarket prohibits farmers from describing farming methods on price signs (like "hormone free"), ostensibly to protect consumers from mendacious claims.

"It seems clear to us that the torture inflicted, and the number of times our son had to endure it and the methods, can only be the perverse deed of some torture professional," they told Italian media on Wednesday.

Trujillo had, in effect, killed him, Antonio thinks, "with a method that was slower and more perverse than when he had his prey shot, beaten to death or fed to the sharks.

The association's litigation director added that the new law "will have the perverse effect of forcing seriously ill Canadians to resort to violent methods or the 'back alley.'".

But for the moment we were happy to have "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," the second feature by Cristi Puiu, though given the movie's methods and subject matter there was perhaps something a little perverse in our joy.