Sentence examples for perverse notion from inspiring English sources

Even more surreal, a perverse notion of democracy is used to claim the right to a racist slur – for equal opportunity offending.

If the U.S. develops a system to protect America and its allies from terrorist missiles, goes Blair's perverse notion of deterrence, it will somehow lessen the value of nuclear weapons held by Britain, which is not a terrorist nation.

Culturally, we have this perverse notion that poor body image is a sign of modesty.

The perverse notion that a person doesn't look destitute or sickly enough to be granted asylum contains a fundamental lack of understanding about what being a refugee means.

This perverse notion of how prisons should be run, that they should be full at all times, and full of minor criminals, is evil.

We liberals love the underdog, and a media that rewards conflict over context has helped promote the perverse notion that the tiny nation with the Star of David on its flag is really the Goliath in the popular Biblical metaphor.

Quite apart from how perverse the notion that abandoning the Mass can do any good is, the church cannot be strengthened or reformed without the dogged presence of people like Mr. Elie.

Mr. Goldblatt has talked instead about his "sometimes perverse, even quixotic notion of giving recognition".

There is something perverse about a notion of diversity that would require us to treat Asian-American excellence as a confounding variable to be (partially) corrected for, rather than a legacy to be celebrated.

Teller (1995: ch. 5) argues that the expression quantum field is only justified on a "perverse reading" of the notion of a field, since no definite physical values whatsoever are assigned to space-time points.

Sir Clive Loader, Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, described the decision as 'not just wrong' but 'wholly perverse' and 'contrary to any notion of natural justice'.