Sentence examples for perverse mixture of from inspiring English sources
It had been rejected by every major publishing house to which it was submitted; English describes it as "a long and somewhat perverse mixture of genres, styles, and languages, sloppily edited and riddled with typographic errors by no means an obvious winner in the marketplace".
It had been rejected by every major publishing house to which it was submitted; English describes it as "a long and somewhat perverse mixture of genres, styles, and languages, sloppily edited and riddled with typographic errors — by no means an obvious winner in the marketplace".
Over time her poems, translated by, among others, Andrea Deletant and Brenda Walker, gained a notable following abroad.Romania's leader from 1965, a cobbler-turned-Communist called Nicolae Ceausescu, shook his country free of Soviet control, but built a personality cult based on a perverse mixture of nationalism and Communist dogma.
Indeed, the perverse mixtures of policies on offer from these parties, conflating social conservatism with economic liberalism and vice versa, mean that voting preferences are often an unreliable guide.
The construction boom was exaggerated by a potent mixture of perverse incentives.
Dajuan Wagner and the University of Memphis represent a perverse outcome of the mixture of big money and college sports (Stephen Rodrick, Nov. 25).
I, for one, took the book's message to heart, and in my younger years regarded gefilte fish with a mixture of revulsion and perverse curiosity.
But in the ugliest conflicts the fighters can become so degraded by violence that killing for professed ideals usually God, fatherland, or some mixture of the two comes to be an end in itself, a perverse validation of purpose.
But in the ugliest conflicts the fighters can become so degraded by violence that killing for professed ideals — usually God, fatherland, or some mixture of the two — comes to be an end in itself, a perverse validation of purpose.
Given all that, it may seem perverse to hail "The Host" as a thing of beauty, yet that is what it is: a perfect mixture of the silly and the grave.
